I have just installed a new Server 2008 Remote Desktop/RemoteApps server. We have been trialling various remote applications successfully with minimal issues until this morning when I got a report in that a new user could not open a remote session.
After troubleshooting this, the user in question, and any other user account attempting to log on to the server through remote desktop or a remote application session would bring back a logon message “The user profile service service failed to logon. User profile cannot be loaded."
Event logs show -
"Windows cannot log you on because your profile cannot be loaded. Check that you are connected to the network, and that your network is functioning correctly.
DETAIL - The system cannot find the path specified."
According to forum searches this can be due to user profiles being deleted but the SID remaining in the registry. In this case the users attempting to log on have do not have a SID entry.
Also permissions to the User profile path are correct and have even been given an "everyone" group full access to the folder and subfolders as a test.
A folder has also been created manually within the Users folder to see if this would make any difference. Still the same log on issue.
I can also confirm that the users attemting to logon are successfully authenticating on to the domain according to the security event logs.
I am now at a bit of a dead end, as new users could log on and user profiles were created fine until this morning.
If anyone has any useful suggestions or insite to this issue it would be much appreciated as I am running out of hair to pull out.
Thanks in advance