Overview
MetaProfiles-IT is a powerful user profile managementalternative to roaming profiles that combines the benefits of
roaming profiles with the speed and stability of mandatory profiles. MetaProfiles-IT eliminates potential profile
corruption and accelerates logon and logoff times by combining the use of a mandatory profile
with a custom "persistence" layer designed to preserve user profile settings from one session to the next.
MetaProfiles-IT supports multi-farm environments and server silos, allowing users to maintain multiple farm- and
silo-specific profile configurations.
MetaProfiles-IT’s features and benefits include:
- Combines the persistence
of a conventional roaming
profile with the speed and
robustness of a mandatory
profile
- Achieves unprecedented
logon speeds and stability
levels (time to load mandatory
profile + 1- 2 seconds)
- Multiple profile data sets
per user account to satisfy
multi-farm and server “silo”
requirements
- Data sets can include HKCU
registry sub-keys and special
folders
- Data sets can be merged
into mandatory profile
synchronously or
asynchronously
- Data set sizes are
typically around 50-200KB
- Users do not require
access permissions to the file
servers storing the data sets
- Can be temporarily used
with local or roaming profiles
(useful if current profiles
contain user settings that
must be preserved upon
permanently switching to
mandatory profiles)
- No scripting required
- Relies on Windows events
such as LOGON, LOGOFF,
CONNECT, DISCONNECT
- Database-driven management
console
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