Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-03 Thread David W. McSpadden
Just a new one with modified date current. - Original Message - From: "David Lum" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:57 PM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates If you right click on "My Computer&quo

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-03 Thread David Lum
11:02 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates I had that problem once myself. Taking the machine out of the domain and adding it back seemed to take care of the problem. Also, the UPH Cleanup tool helped. Ultimately, what fixed it was replacing the m

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-03 Thread David W. McSpadden
stem Admin Issues Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates I had that problem once myself. Taking the machine out of the domain and adding it back seemed to take care of the problem. Also, the UPH Cleanup tool helped. Ultimately, what fixed it was replacing the machine. There did not

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Ken Schaefer
User Profile missing after windows updates Nothing fancy. - Original Message - From: "Damien Solodow" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Do you have a desktop group th

R: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread HELP_PC
Use an undelete tool on one of them just to check GuidoElia HELPPC _ Da: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Inviato: mercoledì 2 settembre 2009 15.25 A: NT System Admin Issues Oggetto: User Profile missing after windows updates XP Pro SP3. Users coming in this morning are

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread John Aldrich
windows updates Nothing fancy. - Original Message - From: "Damien Solodow" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Do you have a desktop group that runs routine/automated mainten

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
We will see. I did that this morning as well. - Original Message - From: "James Rankin" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:24 AM Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates Do the users still actually have permissi

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread James Rankin
: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:03 AM > Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates > We've seen this problem before.  If the user restarts without making any > changes to the default profile, their profile restores itself. > > Terri > > David W. McSpadden said

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Fergal O'Connell
: User Profile missing after windows updates Nothing fancy. - Original Message - From: "Damien Solodow" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Do you have a desktop gro

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
Nothing fancy. - Original Message - From: "Damien Solodow" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:04 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Do you have a desktop group that runs routine/automated maintenance tasks

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
- From: Terri Esham To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:03 AM Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates We've seen this problem before. If the user restarts without making any changes to the default profile, their profile restores i

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
malwarebytes it was fun as well. Thanks again. - Original Message - From: "Steven M. Caesare" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:01 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Because unexplained changes and/or bad int

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Damien Solodow
u.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates I think I am going to cut my loses. 10 machines out of 450. All 10 are up from replacement this month anyways. I think they just got moved to the front of the

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Terri Esham
:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:31 AM > *Subject:* Re: User Profile missing after windows updates > > This was my thought as well; what happens on reboot? > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bob Fronk <mailto:b

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
ginal Message - From: "James Rankin" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:58 AM Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates I think the original post mentioned they were disabledlooks pretty bad I once had a WSUS GPO go all

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Richard Stovall
so be something malicious. -Original Message- From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:57 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates Why would you suspect malware because the profile is missing?

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Steven M. Caesare
lware scanner spin on one whilst you diagnose the other. -sc > -Original Message- > From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:57 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates >

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread James Rankin
dnesday, September 02, 2009 9:55 AM >> To: NT System Admin Issues >> Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates >> >> Actually no.  Different building. >> - Original Message - >> From: "Richard Stovall" >> To: "NT System Ad

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
system restore disabled for virus vendor. - Original Message - From: "Steven M. Caesare" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:56 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates See if there's a system restore point y

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
Why would you suspect malware because the profile is missing? - Original Message - From: "Steven M. Caesare" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:53 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates If WSUS is in use,

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Steven M. Caesare
See if there's a system restore point you can roll back to. -sc > -Original Message- > From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:55 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows upda

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
Actually no. Different building. - Original Message - From: "Richard Stovall" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:51 AM Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates Not to go all conspiracy-theory-crazy or anything,

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Steven M. Caesare
gt; To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates > > 10 to 12. The one I am working with is in the next room. Everyone > else is > in standby mode while I figure it out. > - Original Message - > From: "Steven M. Caesa

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
ber 02, 2009 9:25 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Domain machines? Is there connectivity to the DCs? All the users? Or just some of them? Any event log errors? Do the old profiles still exist in documents and settings? What changed? You mention WU; which ones were app

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Richard Stovall
ankin" > To: "NT System Admin Issues" > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates > > > If the data isn't in the profile folder any more, then it looks pretty > bleak. The ACLs on the folder itself

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
Not hidden. Just gone. - Original Message - From: "James Rankin" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:47 AM Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates If the data isn't in the profile folder any more, then it loo

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread James Rankin
; Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: User Profile missing after windows updates > > > > XP Pro SP3. > > Users coming in this morning are missing their profiles.  That means there > Outlook Express email, their IE favorites

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
No temp. Her data gone. - Original Message - From: Bob Fronk To: NT System Admin Issues Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:29 AM Subject: RE: User Profile missing after windows updates Have the files been deleted from c:\documents and settings\%username% ? Did

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
32 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates IE8 is disabled for us. I haven't gotten through the WSUS logs yet so I am unsure of what updated her machine. Local Profiles. - Original Message - From: "James Rankin" To: "NT System

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
02, 2009 9:31 AM Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates This was my thought as well; what happens on reboot? On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Bob Fronk wrote: Have the files been deleted from c:\documents and settings\%username% ? Did the it just force a lo

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Steven M. Caesare
: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: User Profile missing after windows updates > > IE8 is disabled for us. I haven't gotten through the WSUS logs yet so > I am > unsure of what updated her machine. > Local Profiles. > - Original Message - > From: "Ja

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
IE8 is disabled for us. I haven't gotten through the WSUS logs yet so I am unsure of what updated her machine. Local Profiles. - Original Message - From: "James Rankin" To: "NT System Admin Issues" Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:28 AM Subject: Re: U

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Candee Vaglica
den [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:25 AM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* User Profile missing after windows updates > > > > XP Pro SP3. > > Users coming in this morning are missing their profiles. That means there > Out

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Charlie Kaiser
Kaiser charl...@golden-eagle.org Kingman, AZ *** > -Original Message- > From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] > Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:25 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: User Profile missing after windows updates

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread James Rankin
Might pay to look at the subject line Does removing the updates have any effect? Which ones went on? 2009/9/2 David W. McSpadden : > XP Pro SP3. > Users coming in this morning are missing their profiles.  That means there > Outlook Express email, their IE favorites, desktop shortcutsetc..

RE: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread Bob Fronk
Have the files been deleted from c:\documents and settings\%username% ? Did the it just force a logon with a temp profile? From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:dav...@imcu.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: User Profile missing after windows updates

Re: User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread James Rankin
I am assuming these are local profiles...are the folders actually gone? If they were roaming, you'd be restoring a backup right now I guess. Have any updates been done overnight (it wasn't the IE8 upgrade going out, was it?) 2009/9/2 David W. McSpadden : > XP Pro SP3. > Users coming in this mornin

User Profile missing after windows updates

2009-09-02 Thread David W. McSpadden
XP Pro SP3. Users coming in this morning are missing their profiles. That means there Outlook Express email, their IE favorites, desktop shortcutsetc What can I do to save my sanity? System Restore is disabled on the majority of these machines so the Virusscanner can delete files without