> > Has anybody figured out a way to recover windows profiles automatically?
> >
> have you seen this page:
>
> http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/realmen/det/skel.en.html
>
> maybe this would help you out.
>
Specifically the mention of:
*
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList*
Seems as though you could script retrieving the profile path BEFORE
reinstall and use the previously collected data after reinstall to correct
the new SID entry to the old profile.
The problem stems from the new install not having an entry for that user
under the key
*HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList*
so windows tries to make a new profile, sees that a folder already exists
named %username% so makes a dir named %username%.%computername%. The "fix"
would be to just edit that key to point at the original profile and you
should be golden. Assuming domain users, so the SID would be the same (which
really only matters because of registry permissions). With local users the
SIDs would not match and you'd definately have the extra step of changing
registry permisions.
Now if only someone would script it all for us =)
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