Roaming profile
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A roaming profile is a concept in the Microsoft Windows Server (and previous Windows NT) line of products that allows a user with a network account to log in to numerous computers on the same network and see their same local files and settings regardless of which workstation they selected.
Roaming profiles work by first having the user's local files on the file server. When the user logs into a computer, a copy is made of all the user's files from the file server onto the local computer. When they log off, all changes are propagated back to the server.
Files that make up a roaming profile include all the files that would typically appear in the user's "My Documents" folder, as well as application data, and the user's registry (often referred to by its symbolic name HKEY_CURRENT_USER).
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- Microsoft Windows Help
