Profiles removed from Windows XP on logoff

[Guest]

We just moved from NT 4 to AD (Server 2003).

I have a few users that, when they log off, their profiles are removed
from the computer.

The behavior seems to be linked to moving their accounts from the
administrators group locally into the power users group via domain
users.

Not everyone is affected. In fact, most are not, but I'm not certain
about reconfiguring local permissions on the remainder of my
workstations because I've lost several profiles from this 'bug'.

I've thought about deleting and re-creating the user accounts, but
that's a hassle... Any other ideas?

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If you don't get a good answer here, be sure to try a server newsgroup like
microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory or
microsoft.public.windows.server.general
I know you are talking about what is happening on the clients, but the
experienced folks with this are the administrators in the server ng's.

 

[Guest]

I'm answering my own question...

I discovered that some of my users were also members of the Guests and/
or Domain Guests groups.

Removing my users from the guest groups 'fixed' my problem.

I don't recall them being members of those groups prior to the upgrade
(in-place NT --> AD), but I suppose anything is possible.