profile does not always load

[frenzy2005]

After installing outlook, the user logs in and the profile is created. WHen
the user goes to another PC, they log in and the profile needs to be created
again.

If they come back the next day, the profile SOMETIMES is there and other
times it does not load.

Using outlook 2003, exchange 2003.

Any ideas? Hopefully I've described it in a way that you all can
understand.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

In order for the Outlook account settings to travel between computers you'll
have to configure the user accounts in your domain with Roaming Profiles.
Depending on your domain configuration, old user profiles could get deleted
or are you saying that all user settings are still there except for Outlook?
Which method of deploying user settings are you using?

 

[frenzy2005]

Roaming profiles are not turned on at the location I'm at and turning it on
now would result in some heavy duty breakage.

I've looked into running PRF's but the main bug in my brain right now is why
it's completely random. One user can log in anywhere and it works, another
user has the no profile problem.

There are transforms in the installation that at other sites worked, but
they used roaming profiles.

Is that a possibility?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Outlook with not automatically work when a user logs on to a clean system
for the first time, so there must be some configuration settings being
deployed.

Have you taken a look at your logon and logoff scripts? There might be some
cleaning going on there to prevent a build-up of old user profiles on the
system.

Is there any other form of folder redirection configured in your domain?

 

[frenzy2005]

There isn't any sort of profile cleanup in the scripts. There can be 80
profiles on a machine. The problem can happen when a user logs into a
machine and has never logged in there before, the strange thing is, a user
that has logged in there before can get the same error.