User Profiles

•User profiles maintain a consistent desktop environment – you see it the same as you left it at last log-off!

•The profile maintains your application settings and network mappings.

Local V Roaming

•The local profile is created when you log on to a computer for the first time and is stored on that computer at: %system drive%\Documents and Settings\%username%

•The roaming profile works at any client in the domain regardless of how many users log on to that client.

•The roaming profile sits on a server.

Roaming profiles

• All profiles contain folders such as Favourites, Cookies, Application Data, My Documents.

• The profile also contains a file called ntuser.dat

• When a user logs on to a computer their profile is cached locally.

• When a user logs off, only the changes to their profile are uploaded to the server.

Mandatory Roaming Profiles

• A profile can be configured so that a user cannot change it.

• This is called a mandatory profile.

• To configure a profile as mandatory you have to change the file ntuser.dat to ntuser.man

• A mandatory profile can be configured so that many users can use it, none of them being able to change it.

Configuring Roaming Profiles

• First create the share on the server.

• Its good to create this share on a file server which is backed up frequently.

• Creating the share on a member server eases the load on the Domain Controllers.

• Give the share a meaningful name eg Profiles.

• Alter the user properties to reflect the path to their profile.

Home Page	Subnets and Subnet Masks	NTFS File & Folder Permissions
Permissions	Create a Home Folder	Group Policies
DFS & Auditing	Printing	User Profiles
OSI Layers	Network Components	Winnt .exe command prompts
WINS	Create a Roaming Profile	Domain Groups
IP Address Resolution	Interrupt Requests	MCSA Related Freeware Utils
IP Sec	Remote Access	DNS
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Last Updated 21 February, 2004

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