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Re: Active Directory user goes corrupt


From: kalgecin <kalgecin () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:59:15 -0600

You could try spinrite to check the harddisk. It will restore any
corrupt sectors. I really recomend it

On 8/17/10, petersetlak () me com <petersetlak () me com> wrote:
Peter,

A single corrupt profile does not necessarily indicate a corrupt Active
Directory. Some pointers - O'reilly has a book called the Active Directory
Cookbook - it's good. In the meantime, his profile can become corrupt if he
has rights to change things, settings, download and install, etc. Be sure
his user only has rights to do what he needs to do - nothing more. You may
also want to investigate making his user profile "mandatory" as well as try
to pull as many settings and control of his environment back in to AD
policies giving you more centralized control over users' settings.

As I don't know any details of your environment, the above are just
suggestions...

-

Peter J. Setlak
petersetlak () me com

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On Aug 17, 2010, at 6:10 AM, Peter Odigie <peterodigie () gmail com> wrote:

Hi All!

I am new to active directory and I am presently managing one in a firm. A
staff comes to me and says his desktop contents are no longer there and
wit
his login he cannot open packages on the his system.  Initially, I thought
it was his computer but after I logged in with my own user and he tried
logging into the domain on other computers he had the same problem. It
seems
his user profile on the server (Windows Server 2003) has gone corrupt.

How did that happen? And what am I to do? These are the questions on my
head.  In the main time I have created another user for him and I am going
through the pain of transferring giving him privileges to what he should
have access to.  Any help?

Also, I will like a recommendation of where I can get some free books on
Active directory management.

Thanks!

Peter


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