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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