Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

3-9: Manage User Data That Should Be Accessed Locally

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance and scripts
Features and tools	Roaming user profiles, Offline Files, Group Policy, shortcuts
Solution summary	For data that needs to be accessed locally but still must be managed to meet the availability, mobility, and resiliency of the UDS framework, create one or more local folders within the user profile, but that are excluded from roaming.
Benefits	Support applications or workflows that require local data access.

Introduction

In the business requirements for a user data and settings (UDS) framework set forth in 3-1: Define Requirements for a User Data and Settings Framework, most requirements focused on the security, resiliency, and mobility of user data, ...