Chapter 14. Managing Users and User Data

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. Windows Vista has enhancements to three technologies available on earlier versions of Windows: Roaming User Profiles (RUP), Folder Redirection (FR), and Offline Files. These enhancements make managing user data and settings for Windows Vista computers easier and provide ...

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