> I work in a school. We have just replaced our Windows NT servers with
> 2 Windows 2003 servers.
>
> I have recreated all of the users and migrated their home directorys
> across.
>
> The issue I am having is this, When a user logs on for the first time
> the contents of the their My documents folder (in my case, a folder
> in their home drive called work) is deleted and replaced with 2 new
> folders : My pictures and My music.
>
> I then restore their documents back into their folder and it seems to
> be fine after that. Although it s reasonably easy to resolve like
> this, it is going to be chaos when the school returns from holiday
> and 1200 users are coming to me saying they have lost all of their
> work after their initial log in.
>
> The only difference I can see with their home drive is this, before
> they log in for the first time there is no ntuser.dat present,
> afterwards there is.
>
> Please can someone give me any ideas on how to resolve this.
>
> Many Thanks.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> In news:C233C816-83C5-44BA-B7F9-DC88FF6CF87E@microsoft.com,
> Oliver Maynard <OliverMayn***@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
> > I work in a school. We have just replaced our Windows NT servers with
> > 2 Windows 2003 servers.
> >
> > I have recreated all of the users and migrated their home directorys
> > across.
> >
> > The issue I am having is this, When a user logs on for the first time
> > the contents of the their My documents folder (in my case, a folder
> > in their home drive called work) is deleted and replaced with 2 new
> > folders : My pictures and My music.
> >
> > I then restore their documents back into their folder and it seems to
> > be fine after that. Although it s reasonably easy to resolve like
> > this, it is going to be chaos when the school returns from holiday
> > and 1200 users are coming to me saying they have lost all of their
> > work after their initial log in.
> >
> > The only difference I can see with their home drive is this, before
> > they log in for the first time there is no ntuser.dat present,
> > afterwards there is.
> >
> > Please can someone give me any ideas on how to resolve this.
> >
> > Many Thanks.
>
> Are you using roaming profiles?
> Folder redirection via Group Policy?
>
> Do you have the User Profile Hive Cleanup utility installed (a must!)
>
>
>
>

>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:
>
>> In news:C233C816-83C5-44BA-B7F9-DC88FF6CF87E@microsoft.com,
>> Oliver Maynard <OliverMayn***@discussions.microsoft.com> typed:
>>> I work in a school. We have just replaced our Windows NT servers
>>> with 2 Windows 2003 servers.
>>>
>>> I have recreated all of the users and migrated their home directorys
>>> across.
>>>
>>> The issue I am having is this, When a user logs on for the first
>>> time the contents of the their My documents folder (in my case, a
>>> folder in their home drive called work) is deleted and replaced
>>> with 2 new folders : My pictures and My music.
>>>
>>> I then restore their documents back into their folder and it seems
>>> to be fine after that. Although it s reasonably easy to resolve like
>>> this, it is going to be chaos when the school returns from holiday
>>> and 1200 users are coming to me saying they have lost all of their
>>> work after their initial log in.
>>>
>>> The only difference I can see with their home drive is this, before
>>> they log in for the first time there is no ntuser.dat present,
>>> afterwards there is.
>>>
>>> Please can someone give me any ideas on how to resolve this.
>>>
>>> Many Thanks.
>>
>> Are you using roaming profiles?
>> Folder redirection via Group Policy?
>>
>> Do you have the User Profile Hive Cleanup utility installed (a must!)