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    Corrupted ntuser.dat in roaming profile W2K3 – XPSP3 – MS Outlook

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    by marek.stasiak ·

    Hello,

    I have problem with roaming profiles. When my users log on to your system the ntuser.dat fails (ntuser.dat has 256 KB size) and they have their pulpits and documents but they can not use MS Outlook 2003. When I replace ntuser.dat with backup file everythig works fine.

    I have checked user folder / share permissions, there is no disk quotas. There is some redirection for *.pst files/not for all users.

    Have you any suggestion how to resolve this?

    What is cause this?

    Thank you in advance.

    Mark

    (sorry for my english)

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    • #2527322

      Clarifications

      by marek.stasiak ·

      In reply to Corrupted ntuser.dat in roaming profile W2K3 – XPSP3 – MS Outlook

      Clarifications

    • #2540241

      256 KB ntuser.dat file

      by barryhiggins ·

      In reply to Corrupted ntuser.dat in roaming profile W2K3 – XPSP3 – MS Outlook

      Hi,

      I am having the same problem, I provied support in a Win2k3 Active directory domain, using roaming profiles and Outlook2003.

      Frequently users are presented with what looks like a corrupt profile (missing files from the desktop, no mapped drivers or printers) and in all cases the ntuser.dat file only has a fraction of the required information (with a size of 256KB).

      If anyone has any ideas I would also be glad to hear them.

      Thanks,

      Barry

    • #2624134

      Roaming Profile

      by animatech ·

      In reply to Corrupted ntuser.dat in roaming profile W2K3 – XPSP3 – MS Outlook

      Does your user has a TS specific profile and a normal profile?
      If he has 2 profiles then are they pointing to different locations or to the same location?
      If both are pointing to the same location that may cause a problem.

      • #2624108

        “Normal” roaming profile.

        by witold.madej ·

        In reply to Roaming Profile

        Hi, We don’t use TS environment. “Normal” profiles are stored on file server (W2003 AD), no quota, permission structure according Microsoft advice, shadow copies – disabled. It looks that user can’t load his profile, then XP Pro. load default (256kb) and replace on share. Everything is in LAN (100/1000, about 100 users), I don’t observe any communication bottlenecks. In NT4 environment everything was fine. Problem has started when we migrated to AD environment (root domain is located out my country).

        • #2545043

          sounds like a permissions problem

          by Anonymous ·

          In reply to “Normal” roaming profile.

          If I follow this correctly, it sounds like the issue is for a single user. if that is the case, is that user in the appropriate OU in AD and if so, are you positive that the folder share in which that users profile is stored/created has the correct permissions?
          for example. if the user is in the STUDENT OU and the share permissions do have STUDENTS group list, but the STUDENTS group only has READ ONLY privileges, then the profile will not be able to be written to this share. This is a common problem I see.

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