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Tim Hunter
Steel Contributor
May 26, 2020

New Users have 2 User Folders

Occasionally when I setup new users on my domain controller, it will create 2 user folders; one is just hte username which is normal and correct and then there sometimes is a second user folder with username.domain. Does anyone know what would cause this to happen randomly on users? Or how to fix it? Here is a screenshot. Thanks!

 

  • It's normal expected behavior.

    If you first logged on to pc then later to domain you'll end up with two profiles

    %username%
    %username%.%userdomain%

    If you first logged on to domain then later to pc you'll end up with two profiles

    %username%
    %username%.%computername%
     

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      Tim Hunter
      Steel Contributor

      Dave Patrick 

       

      So how is it that this has only happened a couple time to random users. Usually, when I setup a new user, I only get the one user folder as you can see in the previous screenshot. Thanks!

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        Dave Patrick
        MVP

        The users that have two profiles have logged on at least once to both local machine and domain on the pc. 

         

         

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