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Okay.

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Now, what I want to do is sort of bring home some of these concepts that I've just been talking about.

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Let's take a look at the user's profile.

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The way I'm going to do that is I'm going to just type percent, user profile percent here.

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And what that does is it actually brings up the contents of the user's profile, as it's seen from the

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file system perspective.

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Now, another way I could get to this.

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I could go in under computer.

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See users and then the username.

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And here it is in a different format you'll see here this file and two or dot dat.

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Now remember I mentioned that that is essentially the HK UI underscore current underscore user hive.

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So that is if I bring up the registry editor, that is this set of keys here, that file underscores

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or it is the backing store for the set of keys.

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So it holds all of the settings related to the registry.

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And now here are my various folders.

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You've got my documents, you've got app data, you've got the desktop, you've got downloads, favorites,

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etc. These are all the various folders that represent the data part of the user settings and data equation.

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So this is the stuff that I'm going to be manipulating using folder redirection to in order to, you

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know, sort of have a way of managing this data as the user roams from machine to machine.

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And again, this is all just standard Windows stuff.

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And what we're doing is using group policy to sort of manipulate how this follows the user around.

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One thing I want to show you is I'm going to go ahead and bring up my server.

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And again, I mentioned that even though this isn't in the realm of group policy so much.

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I'm going to talk a little bit about roaming profiles.

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Roaming profiles are defined by at the user object and Active Directory.

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If I bring up this particular user account and go to the profile tab, what I could do here is set a

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profile path.

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And in this case I have a DFS share called users and profile data and then percent, user name percent.

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And that's actually going to fill in the user's name.

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And that is all you need to do to set up roaming profiles for a user.

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Now, once the user logs off and logs back in again, they're going to get their profile from the server

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and essentially use roaming profiles going forward.

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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

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you can use roaming profiles in conjunction with folder redirection.