June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1488 pages
45h 53m
English
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Managing User Profiles
User profiles contain global user settings and configuration information and are stored for each user account created on a server or in a domain. A user profile allows a user to maintain his or her desktop environment so it is the same whenever they log on. The profile is created the first time a user logs on. Different profiles are created for local user accounts and domain user accounts.
Profile Essentials
The following three types of user profiles can be used:
Local Local user profiles are the means for saving user settings and restoring them when the user logs on to the local machine.
Roaming Roaming profiles allow user settings to move with a user from computer to computer by storing the information on domain controllers ...