NikChillin Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 Ho do you do this? We usually delete them from AD after a while so when they return we create a new account with the same name, however, it seems that the userarea that the AD account pointed to isn't happy. Easily fixed - but your thoughts.....
tmcd35 Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 If we know they are coming back we just disable the account. Otherwise, we disable the account and move it to a leavers folder until such time as we can be bothered to delete it completely (a year or two later). This way when they return nothing needs recreating, just enabling.
Davit2005 Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) Surely just restore the folder to the proper location renaming if necessary, make sure they are the owner and then in AD repoint their Home Folder to the restored folder. It shouldn't be harder than that, it should be as straight forward as a straight forward restore Edited February 7, 2014 by Davit2005
Boredguy Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 If they return (and we have had a couple of English staff do just that after a year) we just recreate their account just like any other new staff. No problems what so ever.
psydii Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 Just re-enable their account and put them back into the appropriate role groups. Old staff are my secret supply of emergency disk space
robjduk Posted February 7, 2014 Posted February 7, 2014 Just make their account again? There shouldn't be an issue.
p858snake Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 Ho do you do this? We usually delete them from AD after a while so when they return we create a new account with the same name, however, it seems that the userarea that the AD account pointed to isn't happy. Easily fixed - but your thoughts..... Have you removed the home drive before attempting recreation? Without testing, If its still there it might have issues due to different UIDs on the folder for security.
MatthewL Posted February 8, 2014 Posted February 8, 2014 If you are having problems with home drives the permissions will need setting, its not just a case of creating the user, to the system its a totally different one, its a new SID, just add the new account to the home drive folder and there you go once mapped.
NikChillin Posted February 10, 2014 Author Posted February 10, 2014 (edited) We haven't had many issues like this before as we would just disable the account but the new head wants the accounts deleted, now a couple of people have returned I vave recreated their account in AD and the folder path is correct but as MatthewL mentioned, the SID is most likely different. When they save their work it is putting the files on the C:\ although all permissions seem fine. Edited February 10, 2014 by NikChillin
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