Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next

Administrators' profiles deleted when having Guest status

Posted: 12-10-2008, 05:20 PM
Our solution for preventing users from leaving behind profiles on lab
machines has been to add the Domain Users group to the Guests group on those
machines. As long as a user was a member of the Administrators group on the
machine, that user's profile would not be deleted.

I just discovered that with Vista, even Adminstrators' profiles are deleted
in this scenario (of course I mean users with admin rights who are Domain
Users). This happens even if the admin user's profile existed before adding
Domain Users to the Guest group.

I don't know of a Group Policy setting that will delete user profiles, other
than for roaming ones. Can anyone think of a solution for this?

(Fortunately Vista has volume shadow copies of everything by default, so I
was able to restore the important files from my profile after it was deleted!)
Reply With Quote

Responses to "Administrators' profiles deleted when having Guest status"

 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
 


Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On
Forum Jump


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Local Profiles Deleted after setting policy SWilbers Windows Vista Administration 1 10-11-2007 01:54 PM
big problem, deleted administrators Mike.ONeal Windows Vista Administration 6 09-30-2007 08:51 PM
Account Profiles Deleted - Cannot remember password - Cannot hard Erik Windows XP Configuration & Management 6 02-06-2006 01:22 PM
add domain administrators into local administrators group from GPO rix Windows XP Security & Administration 0 09-26-2003 11:34 PM
User profiles are not being deleted on log out. Robin Windows XP Security & Administration 0 08-07-2003 02:02 PM