Chapter 15. Managing Users and User Data

  • Understanding User Profiles in Windows 7 531

  • Understanding Libraries 546

  • Implementing Corporate Roaming 556

  • Working with Offline Files 585

  • Summary 608

  • Additional Resources 609

Large enterprises need secure, reliable, and highly available methods of managing user data and settings. These methods must also work in a variety of networking scenarios ranging from mobile users to shared computer environments to connections over slow and unreliable wide area network (WAN) links. Beginning with Windows Vista, enhancements were made to three corporate roaming technologies available on earlier versions of Microsoft Windows: Roaming User Profiles (RUP), Folder Redirection, and Offline Files. Further enhancements to these ...

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