Guest INFOSEEKER via WinServerKB.com Posted February 4, 2008 Posted February 4, 2008 I have a user who deleted their profile. They went to mycomputer properties, advanced, then user profiles and deleted it from there. Does anyone know where i can recover it from? -- Message posted via http://www.winserverkb.com
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted February 4, 2008 Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Deleted Profile INFOSEEKER via WinServerKB.com <u41034@uwe> wrote: > I have a user who deleted their profile. They went to mycomputer > properties, advanced, then user profiles and deleted it from there. > Does anyone know where i can recover it from? Hi - wrong group? This isn't a server issue unless you're talking about a Terminal Services box. That said, there is no way that a user, as him/herself, can do this - it would be a suicidal act & the system wouldn't let you do it. You can't delete the profile for the account you're logged in as. You'd have to be logged in as another account with admin rights - so it can't be an accident. You'll need to restore from backup, presuming you've got one - if not you may want to look at undelete software for the local workstation (but stop anyone using it in the meantime). I can't recommend any specifically as I haven't had to work with this stuff in long time. If you're on a domain, I suggest you start using folder redirection so that all your users' My Documents, App Data, and Desktop, is actually on the server and not on the local workstation. And don't grant users admin rights or let them know the passwords of accounts that *have* admin rights - then this sort of thing won't be an issue in the future.
Guest INFOSEEKER via WinServerKB.com Posted February 4, 2008 Posted February 4, 2008 Re: Deleted Profile Thanks. What happened was the user was created a new profile, so they saw one that was user.domain as a profile, and deleted it. That was actually their real profile. I dont know why it created a different one when the logged on. So there were two, one called user and one called user.domain with the latter being the true profile which was deleted. INFOSEEKER wrote: >I have a user who deleted their profile. They went to mycomputer properties, >advanced, then user profiles and deleted it from there. Does anyone know >where i can recover it from? -- Message posted via WinServerKB.com http://www.winserverkb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-server/200802/1
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted February 5, 2008 Posted February 5, 2008 Re: Deleted Profile INFOSEEKER via WinServerKB.com <u41034@uwe> wrote: > Thanks. What happened was the user was created a new profile, Meaning, someone did this for the user? On the domain? You aren't being very clear..... > so > they saw one that was user.domain as a profile, and deleted it. Ah, that wasn't a very wise idea. > That > was actually their real profile. I dont know why it created a > different one when the logged on. So there were two, one called user > and one called user.domain with the latter being the true profile > which was deleted. This is common enough. If you have a local user called Jim, and c:\documents and settings\jim, when the *domain* user Jim logs in, he gets c:\documents and settings\jim.domain. Or, if a local profile gets corrupted, you can end up with jim1 and jim2. If you weren't using roaming profiles, and don't have workstation backups, you're somewhat SOL unless you use undelete software as already suggested. You should definitely implement folder redirection, even if you don't use roaming profiles, in the future. > > INFOSEEKER wrote: >> I have a user who deleted their profile. They went to mycomputer >> properties, advanced, then user profiles and deleted it from there. >> Does anyone know where i can recover it from?
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