What are the advantages of roaming profiles?

Roaming user profiles have the following advantages:

  • Automatic resource availability. A user’s unique profile is automatically available when he or she logs on to any computer on the network.
  • Simplified computer replacement and backup.

What is the benefit of roaming profiles?

Roaming user profiles have the following advantages: Automatic resource availability. A user’s unique profile is automatically available when he or she logs on to any computer on the network. Users do not need to create a profile on each computer they use on a network.

What is the difference between “local” and “roaming” folders?

Local, LocalLow, And Roaming Folders Local. Remember that these folders exist under your Windows user profile. LocalLow. LocalLow is the same as Local however, the apps that save data here do so because they do not have access rights to save data to Local or because Roaming. All folders in this folder can be synced to a server and can be copied between PCs to move your user profile.

Where are the settings for folder redirection?

Open the Group Policy object where Folder Redirection policy is set.

  • Under User Configuration,double-click Windows Settings.
  • Double-click Folder Redirection.
  • Click the folder you want to configure (for example,My Documents).
  • What is Folder Redirection?

    Folder Redirection enables users and administrators to redirect the path of a known folder to a new location, manually or by using Group Policy. The new location can be a folder on the local computer or a directory on a file share. Users interact with files in the redirected folder as if it still existed on the local drive.

    What’s is the “AppData Roaming” folder?

    Roaming folder contains data that can move with the user profile from a computer to a computer

  • Local folder contains data that cannot move with your user profile.
  • LocalLow folder includes low-level access data,eg. temporary files of your browser when running in a protected mode.