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TS user profile not updating

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lebisol

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Hello everyone!
I have been pulling my hair over this issue so any pointer would be great :)
I have only a few users that have started to experince this issue on terminal sever.
Whenever the user in question loggs in, their temp profile is created as UserName.DOMAIN and deleted on the logout. To my understanding this is how the profile is supposed to be cached....

The problem is that their "true proflie"
(just the "UserName" vs. "UserName.DOMAIN")
never gets updated or used so all the work/files created are gone ones the user loggs out.
I have even tried pointing their Terminal Server Profile to the exact location \\TerminaServer\Share\UserName
but still no change.
The strangest thing of all is that other users can login fine and pull their profiles (from C:\Documents and Settings\UserName) and never create the 'cached' profile of C:\Documents and settings\UserName.DOMAIN.
I have compared users and they seem to be configured the same...with the same user rights,groups etc.

Please if anyone has a suggestion it is more than welcome...I am running out of hair to pull
Many thanx in advance!
All the best!

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Hello everyone!
I managed to save a few hairs :)
as it turns out it was the issue of folder redirection of My Documents that has been causing it. Still not sure why only a few users were afected although each user has the redirection on.
Removing the ROmaing TS Profile and clearing the Exclusive rights to the My Docs folder seems to resolve the issue of profiles not being updated.
I am still looking for an answer/advice to why these profiles presist to being saved as Username.DOMAIN alltought they are now local.
Any ideas how to ensure that profiles are being created/saved in format of UserName vs. UserName.DOMAIN

Many thanx!

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ok,ok...I did shoot the deputy but he told me he was the sheriff!
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