Maintain user profiles - Explore user profile types Flashcards
What is a Local User Profile?
Available on a single computer only.
Fill in the blanks: If users sign in to multiple devices, by default, —- —- user profiles will be created on each computer.
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This means that modifications and documents that a user creates on one computer won’t be available on other computers. Therefore, administrators should avoid local profiles if users sign in to multiple devices.
What is a Roaming User Profile?
Can roam user profile between computers that are domain members.
What is a Mandatory User Profile?
A special type of pre-configured user profile that doesn’t store user changes between sign-ins.
What is a Temporary User Profile?
Issued each time that an error condition prevents the user’s profile from loading.
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What happens when a user signs in for the first time?
The Windows operating system automatically creates a local user profile.
What is the main limitation of Local User Profiles?
Modifications and documents are not available on other computers.
What do Roaming User Profiles store?
User settings and data are stored on a network location and locally.
How do Roaming User Profiles handle changes made by the user?
Changes copy to the network location when the user signs out.
What happens if a user signs in to multiple computers at the same time if user has a roaming user profile ?
Changes on one computer override changes on another because they copy only at sign-out.
What types of data never copy to the network location with Roaming User Profiles?
Temporary Internet Files or AppData\Local.
What characterizes Mandatory User Profiles?
User changes are not preserved after signing out.
Who configures mandatory user profile ?
administrators
What are the two types of mandatory user profiles ?
normal mandatory profiles and super-mandatory profiles
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What happens on the device when user has a mandatory user profile?
- user changes are stored in the local copy of a user profile
- When the user signs in again, the mandatory user profile downloads from the network location, and it overrides the local user profile copy
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How are Mandatory User Profiles created?
Administrators can configure users with mandatory user profiles
* first by configuring them with roaming user profiles
* then by renaming Ntuser.dat to Ntuser.man.
What is the effect of the .man extension on a user profile?
Causes user modifications to be discarded at the next sign-in.
What is a temporary profile?
A temporary profile is issued each time that an error condition prevents the user’s profile from loading.
What happens to Temporary User Profiles at the end of each session?
They are deleted.
What happens to changes made by the user in a Temporary User Profile?
Changes are lost when the user logs off.
True or False: Roaming User Profiles are compatible between different versions of Windows.
False.
Fill in the blank: A __________ user profile is used only when a user signs in to the computer where it was created.
Local User Profile
Fill in the blank: A __________ user profile allows user settings and data to follow the user across multiple devices.
Roaming User Profile
What are the four common different types of user profiles ?
- Local User Profile
- Roaming User Profile
- Mandatory User Profile
- Temporary User Profiles
