Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

3-1: Define Requirements for a User Data and Settings Framework

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	N/A
Solution summary	Identify the business requirements for the availability, mobility, resiliency, and security of user data and settings.
Benefits	Establishing clarity of requirements and consensus around them is a critical step to complete before embarking on the design of a complex framework.

Introduction

The first step to designing a user data and settings (UDS) framework is to identify the business requirements for the framework. In this solution, I'll set forth a common set of requirements for UDS management. We'll then develop solutions that meet those requirements later in this Solution Collection.

This solution is, therefore, ...