Maintaining User Profiles Flashcards

1
Q

What are the 4 main data categories that make up User State?

A

-User Settings
-User Registry
-Application Data
-User Data

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2
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What are the 4 common Windows user profile types?

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-Local user profile
-Roaming user profile
-Mandatory user profiles
-Temporary user profiles

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3
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What defines a Local User Profile?

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Available only on a single computer

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What defines a Roaming User Profile?

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Can roam between computers that are domain members

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What defines a Mandatory User Profile?

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A special type of pre-configured profile that doesn’t store user changes between sign-ins.

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What defines a Temporary User profile?

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Issued when an error condition prevents the user’s profile from loading.

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How do Roaming User profiles work?

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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.

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What might cause sign-in to take a long time for a Roaming User Profile?

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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.

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What happens if a Roaming user signs in to 2 computers at once?

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The data will be overwritten based on the first of the computers to be logged out.

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10
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Which parts of a Roaming user profile never copy to a network location?

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-Temporary Internet files
-Appdata\Local

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11
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True or false: Roaming user profiles are compatible between different Windows versions

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False

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12
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True or False: a Mandatory User Profile is a type of Roaming User Profile

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True - user changes to the local profile aren’t copied back to the network location

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13
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What does renaming the NTUSER.DAT file to NTUSER.MAN do?

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The profile becomes Mandatory, causing user modifications to be discarded and user profiles to behave as read only

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14
Q

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?

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Windows 10 Build 1607+

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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?

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Windows 10 Build 1511 and older

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16
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What are the 3 ways admins can limit the size of user profiles?

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-Use quotas
-Redirect folders out of user profiles
-Use Group Policy to limit user profile sizes

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17
Q

What method would you use to set a disk quota on a user profile?

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Use File Server Resource Manager in Windows Server 2016 to set a quota on the shared location where roaming user profiles are stored

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18
Q

What happens if a local volume exceeds its disk quota?

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Users wont be able to write more data to the volume

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What happens if a shared folder exceeds its disk quota?

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The local copy of a roaming profile won’t sync with the network share, meaning changes won’t copy to the file server.

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20
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How would folder redirection be configured?

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Group Policy

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21
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True or false: you can use folder redirection in conjunction with quotas

A

True

22
Q

When using Group Policy to limit user profile size, what happens if a Local user exceeds the size limit?

A

Users can still write data to their profiles but are notified on sign-out that they have exceeded their limit

23
Q

When using Group Policy to limit user profile size, what happens if a Roaming user profile exceeds the size limit?

A

Local changes won’t be copied to the server until the profile is under the maximum size again.

24
Q

What would you use to implement Folder Redirection for user profiles?

A

Group Policy

25
Q

True or false: redirected folder content is available to any computer on the network and doesn’t copy to the computer as it would with a Roaming profile

A

True

26
Q

What Group Policy would you implement to configure Folder Redirection?

A

‘User configuration -> Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection’

27
Q

What does the ‘Offline Files’ feature of Folder Redirection do?

A

Provides access to content in redirected folders even without connectivity

28
Q

is the ‘Offline Files’ feature of Folder Redirection enabled by default?

A

Yes

29
Q

True or False: only specific folders in a user profile can be redirected

A

True - Documents, Desktop, Start Menu etc

30
Q

True or False: Settings stored in NTUSER.DAT can be redirected

A

False

31
Q

What is the advantage of redirected folders not copying data to local computers?

A

Minimal network traffic during sign-in

32
Q

What license is required for Enterprise State Roaming

A

Entra ID P1/P2

33
Q

What does Enterprise State Roaming do?

A

Syncs settings across Entra-joined devices

34
Q

What are the only types of apps that Enterprise State Roaming syncs data for?

A

State of Business UWP apps

35
Q

What does Enterprise State Roaming use to automatically encrypt all synced data?

A

Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS)

36
Q

How long after last being accessed is Azure-synced Enterprise State Roaming data retained after it was last accessed?

A

90 Days

37
Q

Enterprise State Roaming has no mechanism for syncing files such as Documents, Pictures etc. What would you use instead?

A

OneDrive

38
Q

What is the disadvantage of using Enterprise State Roaming and OneDrive?

A

There is no solution for syncing all data, particularly Desktop app data

39
Q

What data does Microsoft Edge Sync synchronise across devices? (7)

A

-Favourites
-Passwords
-Form-fill
-History
-Open tabs/sessions
-Settings/Preferences
-Extensions

40
Q

What does UE-V stand for?

A

User Experience Virtualisation

41
Q

What Windows edition supports UE-V?

A

Windows Enterprise

42
Q

What does UE-V do?

A

Syncs the following data between computers in the same AD-DS domain environment:

-OS settings
-Desktop App settings
-MS Store App settings
-Network Printers
-User Credentials

43
Q

When does support for UE-V end?

A

April 2026

44
Q

Where can you enable Enterprise State Roaming?

A

Entra ID -> Devices -> Enterprise State Roaming -> ‘Users may sync settings and app data across devices’

45
Q

What data does ESR sync across devices?

A

Windows Settings and UWP app data

46
Q

What Windows Settings does ESR sync across devices?

A

-Windows Theme
-Internet Explorer settings
-Wifi Passwords
-Language preferences

47
Q

When a user is deleted in Entra ID, after how long is the user account roaming data deleted?

A

90-180 days

48
Q

How can an Entra admin manually delete a specific user’s roaming data/settings?

A

File a ticket with Azure support

49
Q

User data that isn’t accessed in how long is considered Stale and deleted from the cloud?

A

1 year

50
Q

What happens if the Entra directory admin turns off ESR for the entire directory?

A

All users will stop syncing settings and all user data will therefore become stale

51
Q

True or false: the user data retention policy is configurable in Entra

A

False