Can I delete or identify " Account Unknown" profiles?

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Hank Arnold

The environment we have is a single local domain with 4 servers running W2K
AS w/TS and AD. Two of the servers are running Citrix MetaFrame XPa FR1. I
noticed this several weeks ago...

On our Citrix servers when I list User Profiles (under System Properties),
it takes a couple of minutes to show the list. I see 21 profiles listed as
"Account Unknown". I'm leery to just go ahead and delete them. However, they
are taking up considerable space (almost 40MB each) and if I don't need
them, I'd like to free up 800+ MB of space (as well as reduce the backup
time to tape).

Any ideas or thoughts?? Needless to say, my concern is that I would be
messing up one of our senior exec's setup and *that* ain't good for the
career!!.... ;-(
 
The Account Unknown message means they correspond to user accounts which no
longer exist. You can delete them. If you're nervous about losing data,
backup docs & settings first, and then delete them.

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Brian Desmond
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Sure. Find your Documents and Settings folder on the server (usually under
C), and make a copy of it. Assuming you're backing the C drive up (or
wherever Documents and Settings is) to tape every night, or similiar, you
shouldn't have to worry about this step.

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Brian Desmond
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