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Virtualize user profiles with Microsoft’s FSLogix Profile Container

Ever since Microsoft acquired FSLogix, customers with RDS CALs or different Microsoft 365 subscriptions may use Profile Container free...
Roaming profiles and Start Tiles (TileDataLayer) in the Windows 10 1703 Creators Update

Microsoft deprecated the "TileDataLayer" model in the Windows 10 1703 Creators Update. In this post, I describe a hack...
Create and deploy a Windows 10 roaming mandatory profile

In this guide, I am going to go through the steps to build a Windows 10 roaming mandatory...
Include and exclude folders in roaming user profiles

A Group Policy Object (GPO) has always allowed administrators to exclude folders from a roaming profile but not include...
User Profile Disks on Windows 10

User Profile Disks (UPD) is a Microsoft technology best known for its use on Windows RDSH (Remote Desktop Session...
Work Folders – Part 4: Setting up clients

In my last post of my Work Folder series, I explained how to setup SSL. Today, I’ll have a...
Work Folders – Part 2: Server installation

In Part 2 of my Work Folders series, I’ll discuss setting up Work Folders on the server. You'll learn...
User Experience Virtualization: Part 2: UE-V Generator and Rollback

With the UE-V Generator, you can configure third party applications to roam their settings. With PowerShell, we can directly...
User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) – Part 1: Client configuration and deployment

Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2012 delivered a huge breakthrough in application data management. UE-V is an elegant solution...
Folder Redirection – Part 3: Explanation of folder permissions

Folder Redirection in Group Policy allows a systems administrator to redirect certain folders from a user’s profile to a...
Folder Redirection – Part 1: Introduction

Folder Redirection in Group Policy allows a systems administrator to redirect certain folders from a user’s profile to a...
Troubleshoot slow logon – Part 1: Profile size

One of the reasons a user may experience a slow logon are problems with a large roaming user profile....
UserProfilesView is a free portable and scriptable tool that enables you to view all local and roaming user profiles...
Windows 7 background upload of roaming user profiles

When I compiled my complete Windows 7 feature overview a while back, one of the features that caught my...
If Group Policy settings don’t take effect immediately

The February issue of WindowsITPro has an interesting article about Group Policy annoyances (subscribers only). I think the most...
Windows Vista and Windows XP roaming user profiles interoperability: folder redirection is the only way

If you are working with roaming user profiles (server based user profiles) in your organisation, then be prepared for...
Roaming Profiles cure: User Profile Hive Cleanup Service

Do you know the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service? It can help solve your problems with roaming user profiles,...
When roaming profiles don’t roam anymore

When we recently rolled out about 250 computers, three users had problems with their roaming profiles. Those users didn't...