Strange Issue After moveuser.exe

[Michael J. Wheeler]

Hello all,

I've got a bit of a weird issue. We migrated one of our users from using a
local account to using a domain account. I did this with the moveuser
utility (specifically "moveuser.exe localusername DOMAIN\domainusername /y
/k").

Now, when this person logs into her domain account, she gets a message that
pops up saying "Windows cannot load the user's profile but has logged you
on with the default profile for the system. DETAIL - Incorrect function".
She still gets her normal profile and is able to use it fine. However, we
have also noticed that she is not able to install applications that use the
InstallShield installer.

I'm guessing this is some permissions issue from migrating the profile, but
I can't figure it out. I've even gone as far as making her a local
administrator -- but we still get the message. I've also gone into the
registry and made sure that she had permissions everywhere, but still nothing.

Anybody seen this before? Any ideas?

 

[Vincent Xu [MSFT]]

Hi,

When you migrating the user account, are you sure you was logged in with
admin rights to create and modify user accounts on both the source and
target machine?



Best regards,

Vincent Xu
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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[Michael J. Wheeler]

Yes, I was logged in as DOMAIN\Administrator which is a member of the
"Domain Admins" group, and by default, gets put it in the "Administrators"
group of the local machine.

Basically, I just need to figure out how to recover from this.. I was
hoping there would be a tool that I could run that would "refresh" the
permissions for the user. I'm guessing nothing like that exists?

I'm wondering if it might work to use another tool? I was "thinking" I may
be able to moveuser.exe the profile back to the local profile, then use
another tool out there like "CopyProfile" to try it again...

Anybody have any better ideas?

 

[Enkidu]

My guess is that the new profile is owned by DOMAIN\Administrator. I
would check the permissions on the profile and change them if necessary.

The DOMAIN\user should have FC on their hierarchy under Document and
Settings on the machine.

Cheers,

Cliff