Windows 7 user profile failed error...... again!

[themightymrp]

Bit of a strange one,

 

We have some newly installed Windows 7 laptops, joined to our Server 2008 domain. When I try to login as a member of staff that already has a .V2 roaming profile I have no issues. The user has standard permissions on the local machine.

 

However, when I log on as a user who does not yet have a .V2 profile on the domain I get the 'User Profile service has failed the logon' error. I have checked the permissions of the roaming profile share including NTFS permissions. All seems fine. In fact it creates a folder for them when they try to log on called username.V2

 

The only way I have found to fix this is to add the users domain account into the Local Administrators group on the laptop. This then creates the profile and works just fine!

 

Any ideas? I tried adding change NTFS permissions to the c:\users folder for everyone but that doesn't seem to have worked.

 

Cheers

[Ric_]

I've seen quite a few weird Windows 7 profile issues. I have found the best way to fix them is to delete the existing roaming profile and install a fresh copy of Windows 7 SP1 (the SP1 bit is important). All the problems then seem to go away. SP1 also seems to have fixed some odd WiFi issues I was having.

[jinnantonnixx]

Bit of a strange one,

 

We have some newly installed Windows 7 laptops, joined to our Server 2008 domain. When I try to login as a member of staff that already has a .V2 roaming profile I have no issues. The user has standard permissions on the local machine.

 

However, when I log on as a user who does not yet have a .V2 profile on the domain I get the 'User Profile service has failed the logon' error. I have checked the permissions of the roaming profile share including NTFS permissions. All seems fine. In fact it creates a folder for them when they try to log on called username.V2

 

The only way I have found to fix this is to add the users domain account into the Local Administrators group on the laptop. This then creates the profile and works just fine!

 

Any ideas? I tried adding change NTFS permissions to the c:\users folder for everyone but that doesn't seem to have worked.

 

Cheers

 

there's a fairly simple fix for this problem where you delete some profile keys in the registry. I made a little script to tidy these keys I'll post it on Monday.

[themightymrp]

That would be great @jinnantonnixx - these newly installed Windows 7 laptops have SP1 integrated

[jinnantonnixx]

As promised. The user profile keys are stored here: HKLM_SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

 

I wrote a script (below) which runs through each of these keys and if it's a server-profile, deletes it. It seems to work for me. I'm not plagued by that 'failed the login' error, at any rate.

 

Deploy it as a machine startup script.

 

Any queries, just ask.

 

 

Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002

strComputer = "."

Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _ 
					strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")


'root of registry keys
strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"

'build collection of keys to check
objReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath, arrSubKeys

'we now have a collection of subkeys in 'arrSubKeys'
'look inside each key
For Each subkey In arrSubKeys
CheckKey (strKeyPath & "\" & subkey)	
Next


Sub CheckKey (key)
'check the key to see if contains 'CentralProfile" string value (REG_SZ)
objReg.GetStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,key,"CentralProfile",sValue
'if the value is set, then it refers to a central profile and must be deleted
If Not IsNull (sValue) Then
	DeleteKey (key)
End If	
End Sub


Sub DeleteKey (thisKey)
'delete all subkeys
objReg.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, thisKey, arrSubKeys
If IsArray (arrSubKeys) Then
	For Each strSubKey In arrSubKeys
		'recursively delete the key
		DeleteKey (thisKey & "\" & strSubKey)
	Next
End If

'delete the registry key
objReg.DeleteKey  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,thisKey
End sub

Edited July 4, 2011 by jinnantonnixx

[themightymrp]

Thank you, will give it go

[themightymrp]

So far so good, seems to be working Thanks again

[jinnantonnixx]

Hooray!

[robsonma]

Glad is is now solved.