Data loss with roaming profiles on login on two different computers

Posted by Jurriaan Pijpers on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jurriaan Pijpers
Published on 2013-10-28T09:23:47Z Indexed on 2013/10/28 9:55 UTC
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We have a Windows server 2003 system with Active Directory and all of our users have roaming profiles. One of the users let someone login with his username and password on a different computer (2) while he was working on his own computer (1). Now when this user logs in on his own computer (1), the profile that is loaded is one that dates back many months (i think from the last time he logged on to computer 2).

My suspicion is that the profile that was cached on computer 2 from many months back when this user last logged on on this computer, on logoff, synced over the newer profile on the server. so that now when he logs in, he gets this old profile.

Now my questions:

Is it possible to retrieve te newer profile?

Is it possible to keep this from happening in the future?

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