Roaming Profile: User deleted from AD before profile deleted

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I have a win2k AD and recently we had an employee leave. So, I deleted
the user from Active Directory before realizing the user had a roaming
profile. Now that the user has been deleted, I can no longer delete
the profile ("Cannot delete the user access denied") even as a domain
administrator.

Recreating the user and assigning the roaming profile location doesn't
work either, presumably because of different SID.

Any ideas how I can remove this profile?

Thanks-
Brian
 
Brian Anderson said:
I have a win2k AD and recently we had an employee leave. So, I deleted
the user from Active Directory before realizing the user had a roaming
profile. Now that the user has been deleted, I can no longer delete
the profile ("Cannot delete the user access denied") even as a domain
administrator.

Recreating the user and assigning the roaming profile location doesn't
work either, presumably because of different SID.

Any ideas how I can remove this profile?
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Is this the same question that was answered elsewhere in
Windows.AD?

Generally it is best to post a SINGLE (reasonably) CROSSPOSTED
message to multiple (related) groups rather than individual messages.

If you crosspost then everyone who answers or has interest will be
able to learn and help across all the relevant groups.
 
Not by me, I originally posted to microsoft.public.win2000, but when I
saw the lack of action on that group (1 post every two or three days),
decided it was better off posted elsewhere.

If you've got a link to an answer posted to a similar question on
another group, please post a link. I would love to see it.

Thanks!
Brian
 
Brian Anderson said:
Not by me, I originally posted to microsoft.public.win2000, but when I
saw the lack of action on that group (1 post every two or three days),
decided it was better off posted elsewhere.

If you've got a link to an answer posted to a similar question on
another group, please post a link. I would love to see it.
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I apologize -- it is very similar to an unusual question, but
on second reading I see it is in fact a little different.

So you cannot delete the profile on the Server or else on the
local computer (maybe both).

What have you tried? (Anything beyond just delete in Explorer?)

One of the most dangerous commands anywhere:
(make SURE you give the correct path):

del /s /q Path_To_Profile

How about taking ownership first? Then giving yourself
FC, then try the delete (including the dangerous one above
if Explorer doesn't work.)

Sometimes if files are open, one must reboot before the
files are fully closed and such deletes work (but I don't
like to suggest gratuitous reboots.)
 
Thanks Herb, I went back in, took ownership with a check to replace
ownership on all sub folders, made sure Administrator had full control
and then del /s /q seemed to work for most of the files, the rest I had
to go in and manually delete.

Thanks!
Brian
 
Brian Anderson said:
Thanks Herb, I went back in, took ownership with a check to replace
ownership on all sub folders, made sure Administrator had full control
and then del /s /q seemed to work for most of the files, the rest I had
to go in and manually delete.
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Just be VERY careful with that "del" command.

You can delete a LOT of important files very
quickly. They do NOT go to the trashcan but
are (in general) gone and unrecoverable.


--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]
Thanks!
Brian

Herb said:
I apologize -- it is very similar to an unusual question, but
on second reading I see it is in fact a little different.

So you cannot delete the profile on the Server or else on the
local computer (maybe both).

What have you tried? (Anything beyond just delete in Explorer?)

One of the most dangerous commands anywhere:
(make SURE you give the correct path):

del /s /q Path_To_Profile

How about taking ownership first? Then giving yourself
FC, then try the delete (including the dangerous one above
if Explorer doesn't work.)

Sometimes if files are open, one must reboot before the
files are fully closed and such deletes work (but I don't
like to suggest gratuitous reboots.)

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
Accelerated MCSE
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
[phone number on web site]
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