3-7: Design and Implement Roaming Profiles
Solution overview
Type of solution | Guidance and scripts |
Features and tools | Roaming user profiles |
Solution summary | Manage user settings stored in the registry and, likely, in Application Data (AppData\Roaming in Windows Vista) by configuring roaming profiles. |
Benefits | Provide availability, mobility, and resiliency for user settings and customizations. |
Introduction
Roaming profiles will be implemented to support the requirements of the UDS framework that relate to user settings. Roaming profiles ensure that a user's primary settings stores—the AppData folder (technically, in Windows Vista, the AppData\Roaming folder—previously known to its fans as "Application Data") and registry file (Ntuser.dat)—are accessible ...
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