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bpehrson

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I have three windows 10 machines that are recent installs. They are in a domain setting with Server 2008 for a domain controller. I have one profile that logs on to these daily. Since the very first time logging on these have been giving an error saying they have been logged on with a temporary profile. No other profile that logs on to them has this problem.

I have followed other threads that have recommended deleting the profile and or deleting within the registry. Neither have worked and the registry doesn't show the profile as previous posts on this matter have been discussed. The other option I've seen is to do a system repair with the OS disk, but these are all new machines and I find it extremely coincidental that all three would have the same problem and would like to avoid this. Any other account that logs on to these seems to load a profile fine so I keep coming back to a problem with the Account in active directory.

Can anyone think of anything I may be missing? Thanks so much! For the record I also don't think it is just a Win 10 issue as I have a handful of Win7 machines experiencing a similar issue.
 


Unfortunately I gave this a shot and logged back on and it was still logging on with a temporary profile

 

Good question. Logging in with the same user at a different machine results in the same temporary profile. It doesn't seem to matter if it is a Windows 10 or Windows 7 machine.
 


Check if there's any group policy attached to this user or its OU. the following link might be useful:

http://blog.coultard.com/2012/01/how-to-setup-active-directory-users.html
 


No luck. I can't even see anything in Group Policy about this on the DC.