Okay.
Now, what I want to do is sort of bring home some of these concepts that I've just been talking about.
Let's take a look at the user's profile.
The way I'm going to do that is I'm going to just type percent, user profile percent here.
And what that does is it actually brings up the contents of the user's profile, as it's seen from the
file system perspective.
Now, another way I could get to this.
I could go in under computer.
See users and then the username.
And here it is in a different format you'll see here this file and two or dot dat.
Now remember I mentioned that that is essentially the HK UI underscore current underscore user hive.
So that is if I bring up the registry editor, that is this set of keys here, that file underscores
or it is the backing store for the set of keys.
So it holds all of the settings related to the registry.
And now here are my various folders.
You've got my documents, you've got app data, you've got the desktop, you've got downloads, favorites,
etc. These are all the various folders that represent the data part of the user settings and data equation.
So this is the stuff that I'm going to be manipulating using folder redirection to in order to, you
know, sort of have a way of managing this data as the user roams from machine to machine.
And again, this is all just standard Windows stuff.
And what we're doing is using group policy to sort of manipulate how this follows the user around.
One thing I want to show you is I'm going to go ahead and bring up my server.
And again, I mentioned that even though this isn't in the realm of group policy so much.
I'm going to talk a little bit about roaming profiles.
Roaming profiles are defined by at the user object and Active Directory.
If I bring up this particular user account and go to the profile tab, what I could do here is set a
profile path.
And in this case I have a DFS share called users and profile data and then percent, user name percent.
And that's actually going to fill in the user's name.
And that is all you need to do to set up roaming profiles for a user.
Now, once the user logs off and logs back in again, they're going to get their profile from the server
and essentially use roaming profiles going forward.
So it's a nice little feature to use and I'm going to talk a little more about it in a bit about how
you can use roaming profiles in conjunction with folder redirection.