User profiles being created on the CAS
After a recent disk space warning i noticed that under the C:\Users folder there are a large number of user profiles in there. There is really nothing in the profiles except for shortcuts that show up for any account created. Now i know there should be one for each account that actually logs into the server however all my users are getting folders in here, not just the admins who log in. We have 2 CAS servers load balanced running on Server 2008 Sp1 64 bit. The creation dates of these folders very from the day we went live with exchange 2007 to yesterday. There are different user folders on each of the 2 CAS servers. Each user folder shows up in the User profiles app as: Name "domainname\username" Size "2.89MB" Type "Local" Status "Local". I did notice that my user account as well as some of the other IT staff user accounts do not have folders in here and we user Outlook 07 and Webmail. We do have some users using Outlook 03 as well. The CAS is not doing anything other then running as a CAS\hub transport roll. Any thoughts on why this is happening or is this normal? ThanksService Delivery Specialist
June 16th, 2009 10:51pm

I guess this is normal. as even i can see the same things on my 2 CAS servers under c:\USERS folder Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|
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June 17th, 2009 1:14pm

Its nice to know it's not just me. I am curious though as to why this is happening, why some users have a folder and some don't and what the purpose is. While this doesn't really hurt anything it is taking up over 200MB of space on the C drive of each of my CAS servers.Service Delivery Specialist
June 17th, 2009 7:29pm

Did anyone find out how to resolve this, I am having the same problems? Does it still happen to you or did you resolve it somehow?
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August 14th, 2009 3:15pm

are you using roaming profiles? i do not see this in my environment.
August 14th, 2009 4:12pm

We don't havre this issue either.Karl
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August 14th, 2009 6:45pm

This looks to be an issue with IIS7 (Windows 2008)and users who set or change passwords through those CAS servers.
August 20th, 2009 12:47am

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