Maintaining User Profiles Flashcards
What are the 4 main data categories that make up User State?
-User Settings
-User Registry
-Application Data
-User Data
What are the 4 common Windows user profile types?
-Local user profile
-Roaming user profile
-Mandatory user profiles
-Temporary user profiles
What defines a Local User Profile?
Available only on a single computer
What defines a Roaming User Profile?
Can roam between computers that are domain members
What defines a Mandatory User Profile?
A special type of pre-configured profile that doesn’t store user changes between sign-ins.
What defines a Temporary User profile?
Issued when an error condition prevents the user’s profile from loading.
How do Roaming User profiles work?
User data and settings are stored on a network location, and changes are copied from the local computer to the network location when the user signs out.
What might cause sign-in to take a long time for a Roaming User Profile?
If the user profile contains a lot of data, it can cause copying from the network to the local computer to take a long time.
What happens if a Roaming user signs in to 2 computers at once?
The data will be overwritten based on the first of the computers to be logged out.
Which parts of a Roaming user profile never copy to a network location?
-Temporary Internet files
-Appdata\Local
True or false: Roaming user profiles are compatible between different Windows versions
False
True or False: a Mandatory User Profile is a type of Roaming User Profile
True - user changes to the local profile aren’t copied back to the network location
What does renaming the NTUSER.DAT file to NTUSER.MAN do?
The profile becomes Mandatory, causing user modifications to be discarded and user profiles to behave as read only
If a profile folder is located at ‘\server\share\profile.v6’ on the network, what version of Windows 10 is this the correct extension for?
Windows 10 Build 1607+
If a profile folder is located at ‘\server\share\profile.v5’ on the network, what version of Windows 10 is this the correct extension for?
Windows 10 Build 1511 and older
What are the 3 ways admins can limit the size of user profiles?
-Use quotas
-Redirect folders out of user profiles
-Use Group Policy to limit user profile sizes
What method would you use to set a disk quota on a user profile?
Use File Server Resource Manager in Windows Server 2016 to set a quota on the shared location where roaming user profiles are stored
What happens if a local volume exceeds its disk quota?
Users wont be able to write more data to the volume
What happens if a shared folder exceeds its disk quota?
The local copy of a roaming profile won’t sync with the network share, meaning changes won’t copy to the file server.
How would folder redirection be configured?
Group Policy