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Windows Profiles Whitepaper

Monday, 26 November 2007 by Michel Roth

Sepago, the creators of the sepgaPROFILE product, have released a whitepaper on the subject of how to deal with Windows Profiles. Al though the paper of course is centered around their product, it has some decent content.

One of the pleasant surprises in this whitepaper is that a) you do not need to register for it (this sometimes drives me nuts) and b) that the paper addresses some of the current profile solutions with the coming of the different application virtualization solutions such as Citrix and Softgrid. Of course VDI is also thrown into the mix.

The whitepaper is some 20 pages in lenght: "This technical whitepaper describes the concepts behind Windows user profiles and explains common pitfalls and how to avoid them � both with and without the profile optimization solution sepagoPRO-FILE. User profiles store application and configuration data for individual users. Contrary to popular belief, this data is business critical; since each user�s familiar working environment is contained within his or her profile. Thus, successfully managing this kind of data is essential for any enterprise, because cor-rupted or lost personal settings cause expensive help desk calls and effectively prevent the user from working."