Overview

MetaProfiles-IT is a powerful user profile management alternative 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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