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Published inOct 2021

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ISBN-139781801078993

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Christiaan Brinkhoff

Per Larsen

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Windows profiles

The Windows profile is a very important component of Windows 10 Enterprise.

There are different types of profiles that you could use within your desktop environment. The first, local user profiles, is mostly used as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager. To modernize it, we will be adding cloud services to the profile (explained later).

The other versions were used in the past to simplify the profile. Let's see some more details about the different profile versions used as part of Microsoft Endpoint Manager:

Local user profiles: These are user profiles stored locally on the OS disk and created when you log on to Windows 10 Enterprise for the first time. Everything stored in the local profile is specific to the user and not to the computer. Local profiles are the solution that we use within both physical endpoints and Windows 365.
Temporary user profiles: A temporary profile is issued in case of a profile error, with the temporary profile being...

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Published in: Oct 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801078993

Authors (2)

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Christiaan Brinkhoff works as a Principal Program Manager and Community Director for Windows 365 and AVD at Microsoft, in his role at Microsoft, he works on features such as Windows 11, Windows 365 app, Switch and Boot. Christiaan is also an Author (3 books) and Inventor (3 patents). His mission is to drive innovation while bringing Windows 365, Windows, and Microsoft Intune closer together, drive community efforts around virtualization to empower Microsoft customers in leveraging new cloud virtualization scenarios. Christiaan joined Microsoft in 2018 as part of the FSLogix acquisition. He has also been rewarded with the Microsoft MVP, Citrix CTP, and VMware vExpert community achievements - for his continued support in the EUC community.
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Per Larsen

Per Larsen works as a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Customer Acceleration Team - Commercial Management Experiences (CMX) Engineering, where he takes learnings from Microsoft's largest and most strategic customers back into the rest of engineering to drive improvements for the service so that customers have a continuously improving product experience. He also helps deploy and adopt Microsoft Endpoint Manager - Microsoft Intune. Per mainly focuses on the management of Windows and special devices such as HoloLens 2, Surface Hub, and Microsoft Teams Room System. Per was also an MVP in Enterprise Mobility, from 1st July 2016 to when he joined Microsoft on 1st April 2018.
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