In our company we have a lot of domain user accounts that are "security
designed" for special tasks on the servers. 
Primary for common services as e.g. scheduler, but also for applications
that best run under a customized service account 
as SAP, TDP 4 MSSQL, TWS, EMC Control Center,.... many others. 
Since all that applications store important informations within the profile
it's not only a workstation problem.
Kind Regards 
Stefan Holzwarth

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Januar 2004 22:17
> An: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Betreff: Re: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was 
> Userprofile Backup
> wi t h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2)
> 
> 
> Yes, that is true, at least on W2K pro and server, the 
> profiles are not
> locked for inactive users and will back up OK.
> 
> However, if you have any services running under accounts 
> other than "system"
> (which you must do if you want the service to be able to 
> access network
> resources), then they are always logged on/active.
> 
> So you can hose yourself up an infinite number of ways~! .
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stapleton, Mark [mailto:stapleto AT BERBEE DOT COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 3:29 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: Open File Support for Windows 2003 (Was 
> Userprofile Backup wi t
> h Windows2003 and TSM 5.2)
> 
> 
> From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU]
> >THANK YOU for this information, it is very important to us.
> 
> It seems Tivoli has never been interested in marketing TSM 
> for backing up
> workstations (which REQUIRES the ability to recover user profiles).<
> 
> 
> Good point, Wanda. Most customers don't give a flip about restoring a
> server's user profiles, since most servers use the default 
> user profile,
> which is rebuilt when you reinstall the OS.
> 
> However, I will say that TSM is not the only backup/recovery 
> system that has
> a hard time with user profiles. NetWorker suffers from the 
> same problem.
> 
> It seems to me with older TSM clients that the only user profile that
> doesn't backup is the one used by the logon(s) that is/are 
> active during the
> backup. Does anyone still find this true?
> 
> --
> Mark Stapleton (stapleton AT berbee DOT com)
>