Design Guidelines for User Profiles

Each of the following has an impact on the way you save user-specific configuration settings and data for use with terminal servers:

  • Local profiles aren’t generally suited to deployments of more than one terminal server, because the user experience will become different on every terminal server.

  • For centrally stored profiles, the larger the profile, the longer it can take to log on or log off. The User Profile Service must copy the files to the terminal server and then copy them back to the profile when they’re no longer needed.

  • Profile settings aren’t stored granularly; they’re stored as a flat file. If more than one copy of the profile is open, the settings in the copy that were saved and closed last will be ...

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