Dear One of the X employee stole our domain server H.D.D's , I reinstall new H.D.D's also I install win srv 2008 instade of win srv 2003, i recreate the domain , Active directory ,..ect as it was before . Now let we assume that in the old server 2003 my user name was seffariny , when I recreate the same name on the the new serve 2008 active directory and rejoinded the domain , I logged in to my machine with new profile called seffariny.server (server - my server name ) My old profile still in the c:\users\ as seffariny , so please I need to logging to the new domain directly in to my old profile not in to seffariny.server Please Advice . please Note : Im using win7 pro on all the domain computers .

Seffariny, if it's only one user profile it might be easier to re-custmize your user profile settings. I am not sure if you can login directly to the old user profile as it was using a different randomized SID. In the future to help prevent security breaches you should have the server at least in a secured locked cabinet, or even better, in a locked rack in locked room/closet. If you can't achieve that level of security, try using a Windows Read Only Domain Controller to help control access to directory objects. Additionally, use at least Domain Controllers for data replication and in your case some redundancy in case of theft, this is a MS best practice.

Seffariny, if it's only one user profile it might be easier to re-custmize your user profile settings. I am not sure if you can login directly to the old user profile as it was using a different randomized SID. In the future to help prevent security breaches you should have the server at least in a secured locked cabinet, or even better, in a locked rack in locked room/closet. If you can't achieve that level of security, try using a Windows Read Only Domain Controller to help control access to directory objects. Additionally, use at least 2 Domain Controllers for data replication and in your case some redundancy in case of theft, this is a MS best practice.

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