Summary
As you’ve seen in this chapter, you can manage user settings and data in many ways. Through the use of roaming profiles, you can ensure that users have access to their global settings and essential data from anywhere on the network. Not only does this ensure that a user’s desktop has a consistent look and feel regardless of the computer he is using, but it also ensures that he can access his My Documents folder, user-specific application data, and desktop settings.
A key drawback of a roaming profile is that a user’s data is moved across the network at logon and logoff. You can reduce network traffic during logon and logoff and speed up logon and logoff by using folder redirection. Redirected folders allow for seamless redirection of folders ...
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