Microsoft.SkypeApp locks local user profiles

[Guest Rory Fewell]

Hi,

 

 

I am coming across an issue at a number of sites where there seems to be some bug in Microsoft.SkypeApp that is causing one of its directories in the %localappdata% directory to be locked until computer restart.

 

In particular this is the folder affected:

 

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.SkypeApp_kzf8qxf38zg5c\LocalCache\RNManualFileCache

 

This is quite an annoying problem because we run roaming profiles, and due to this folder being locked, the local user profiles under C:\Users can't be deleted by Windows on log off and this results in a bunch of other problems. Namely that after a while, the user accounts build up with filenames like C:\Users\joe.bloggs.MYDOMAIN.001.002.003.004.005... and this causes Microsoft Office to fail to open any document with a rather unhelpful message of "Sorry, we couldn't open <file>"

 

I suppose I could make a GPO to try and bodge this and forcefully purge this directory, but I was wondering if anyone else has come across this issue and whether it will ever be fixed?

 

 

Cheers

 

 

<p>Rory Fewell</p> <p>(CCNA, MOS, MTA)</p> <p><a href="https://oddmatics.uk">Visit my site!</a></p> <p><a href="rozniak - Overview">View me on GitHub!</a></p>

 

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