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Tim Hunter
May 26, 2020Steel Contributor
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 ...
Dave Patrick
May 26, 2020MVP
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
May 26, 2020Steel Contributor
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!
- Dave PatrickMay 26, 2020MVP
The users that have two profiles have logged on at least once to both local machine and domain on the pc.
- Tim HunterMay 26, 2020Steel Contributor
The users only log in one way; via RDP onto a Windows Server 2016 machine. So how do they get logged in twice? Sorry I am slightly confused how 2 logins get created with a single RDP session. Thank you.
- Dave PatrickMay 26, 2020MVP
One is a local logon
pcname\username
the other is a domain logon
domainname\username