What is a user profile?
When a user signs in to a computer, a folder is created in C:\Users for that user. The folder stores the user profile for the user. Within this folder, subfolders contain documents and settings that represent the user’s profile, including Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Pictures, and Videos.
What are the user profile settings?
User profiles keep multiple devices in sync
If a user is likely to sign in at more than one client workstation, it's better that their user profile settings and documents be available on those other client workstations. There are several ways that you can make sure that users can access their profiles from multiple workstations. One way is the user account profile settings.
Configure the Profile path and Home folder path
- Profile path. This path is either a local, or more usually, a Universal Naming Convention (UNC) path. The user’s desktop settings are stored in the profile. If a user profile has a UNC path, then the user will have access to their desktop settings regardless of the domain computer they sign in at. This is known as a roaming profile.
- Home folder. This is a storage area in which users can save their personal documents. You can specify either a local path, or more usually, a UNC path to the user’s folder. You must also specify a drive letter that's used to map a network drive to the specified UNC path. You can then configure a user’s personal documents to this redirected home folder.
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