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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 ...
Tim Hunter
May 26, 2020Steel Contributor
Yes, I understand the difference between the 2 profiles. I am just trying to understand why this has only happened on a few new users that I setup and not all the users; if this is normal. Thanks!
Dave Patrick
May 26, 2020MVP
More than likely confusion on the part of user, but you may have to ask them.
- Dave PatrickMay 26, 2020MVP
Ok, well what I described is how this happens under normal circumstances. In your case there may be configuration issues or possibly something now broken on the problematic server.
- Tim HunterMay 26, 2020Steel Contributor
Okay, thanks!
So I used that same user and logged in via RDP to my other Server 2016 machine and it only created the user folder with the username and not he username.domain folder? Strange....
- Dave PatrickMay 26, 2020MVP
I'd suggest asking here for help with an RDS configuration.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverTS
- Tim HunterMay 26, 2020Steel Contributor
So I setup a new user and then to test, I logged in via RDP to one of Windows Server 2016 machines, once I was logged in it showed 2 user folders and I had only signed in that one time with this new user.
Under the Home Folder in Active Directory, instead of Local Path, we use Connect to a custom location. Would this have any affect on 2 user folders?