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Len Raphael
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Jun 17, 2018

Why are some domain users showing as username.domain on local machine?

Server 2016, windows 10 wkstations that are all joined to the same domain.  On some machines, c:\windows\users lists the domain users for that machine as simply   their username but on some other mac...
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Len Raphael
Brass Contributor
Jun 18, 2018

Turns out that i had done a clean renistall of win 10 to a couple of pcs a month ago I had mistakenly created a local user of the same name as a domain user which i added after joining those pcs to the domain.  Win10 (and maybe early windows?)appends the domain name to the user name in the pc's users folder.

 

Another reason to use uniqe user name for the local admin.

 

Created a new local user, logged in as that. renamed old domain user folder. in users manager, deleted both the original local and domain user similar names . (there's a regedit that might be need too)

 

logged in as the domain user. Windows created correct user dfolder without appending.  And of course I lost the configurations for  a bunch of apps.  Suppose i could copy appdata folders oney by one but probably not worth the troubleshooting later.

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Len Raphael
Brass Contributor
Jun 21, 2018

and the registry part of the fix:

 

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was necessary to remove both the registries username.domain and the local   username  , so that next time when you login it creates a new SID profile with just your name.

 

Below is the location from where is deleted profile in registry:

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

 

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/156826/how-to-disable-and-delete-user-profiles

 

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