Our domain admin logon on PCs or Servers used to have only one profile located on
c:\users\administrator
Somehow, now we got a duplicated profile called
c:\users\administrator.domain
Does anyone know why?
Win 7 sp1
Win 2008 R2
Win 2012 R2
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Our domain admin logon on PCs or Servers used to have only one profile located on
c:\users\administrator
Somehow, now we got a duplicated profile called
c:\users\administrator.domain
Does anyone know why?
Win 7 sp1
Win 2008 R2
Win 2012 R2
Best Answer
This is probably nothing to worry about - this will occur when the original local profile folder doesn't unload or is otherwise corrupted.
Basically, the first profile will be
C:\Users\username
If there's an issue with the
username
folder, it'll append the domain name:C:\Users\username.domain
If there's an issue with the
username.domain
folder, it'll then start a numerical sequence:C:\Users\username.domain.000
C:\Users\username.domain.001
And so on.
With the "Administrator" account in particular, it could also be caused by a name clash betwen the local administrator account and the domain administrator account.
Either way, this is all just part of Windows Profile Management (Or it's lack of, I guess you could say) and unless you're having a specific issue I'd just forget about it.