Network Account - Contacts loosing all icloud records randomly

From time to time, my network accounts loose all icloud contacts. The contacts application download them authomatically. Does anybody have the same problem? Any idea where the problem could be?

An update: I deleted the users via the Server app, then deleted the corresponding home directoires via the Finder on the server.
I then recreated the users in the Server app and all seems to work fine. Also, on another note I realized that when a network user logs into a computer for the first time, Spotlight indexes the entire computer. We have a couple Mac Pros in here with over 8 TB of data and this indexing slows things down for the network user.
One issue remains and it may be a bug: the Mail app will not save signatures and rules that network users create. Once the user logs out those settings are lost. This is a bummer...
Anyone else experiencing this? Anyone know a fix?
Thanks,
Max

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New to the server environment and have (I assume) successfully setup a Open Directory (for Network user accounts with network homes) server and I am able to successfully bind to it and login to a Network user account via a client mac.
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The iCloud preference panel is able to log into and setup all but mail. It seems that it creates the mail account settings, however when you attempt to launch Mail, it freezes and eventually asks to Rebuild mailbox information. When I select this option the application eventually quits.
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Server: Mac pro, Yosemite 10.10.2 and Server 4.0.3
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