Maintaining User Profiles

Question 1

What are the 4 main data categories that make up User State?

Answer 1

-User Settings
-User Registry
-Application Data
-User Data

Question 2

What are the 4 common Windows user profile types?

Answer 2

-Local user profile
-Roaming user profile
-Mandatory user profiles
-Temporary user profiles

Question 3

What defines a Local User Profile?

Answer 3

Available only on a single computer

Question 4

What defines a Roaming User Profile?

Answer 4

Can roam between computers that are domain members

Question 5

What defines a Mandatory User Profile?

Answer 5

A special type of pre-configured profile that doesn’t store user changes between sign-ins.

Question 6

What defines a Temporary User profile?

Answer 6

Issued when an error condition prevents the user’s profile from loading.

Question 7

How do Roaming User profiles work?

Answer 7

User data and settings are stored on a network location, and changes are copied from the local computer to the network location when the user signs out.

Question 8

What might cause sign-in to take a long time for a Roaming User Profile?

Answer 8

If the user profile contains a lot of data, it can cause copying from the network to the local computer to take a long time.

Question 9

What happens if a Roaming user signs in to 2 computers at once?

Answer 9

The data will be overwritten based on the first of the computers to be logged out.

Question 10

Which parts of a Roaming user profile never copy to a network location?

Answer 10

-Temporary Internet files
-Appdata\Local

Question 11

True or false: Roaming user profiles are compatible between different Windows versions

Answer 11

False

Question 12

True or False: a Mandatory User Profile is a type of Roaming User Profile

Answer 12

True - user changes to the local profile aren’t copied back to the network location

Question 13

What does renaming the NTUSER.DAT file to NTUSER.MAN do?

Answer 13

The profile becomes Mandatory, causing user modifications to be discarded and user profiles to behave as read only

Question 14

If a profile folder is located at ‘\server\share\profile.v6’ on the network, what version of Windows 10 is this the correct extension for?

Answer 14

Windows 10 Build 1607+

Question 15

If a profile folder is located at ‘\server\share\profile.v5’ on the network, what version of Windows 10 is this the correct extension for?

Answer 15

Windows 10 Build 1511 and older

Question 16

What are the 3 ways admins can limit the size of user profiles?

Answer 16

-Use quotas
-Redirect folders out of user profiles
-Use Group Policy to limit user profile sizes

Question 17

What method would you use to set a disk quota on a user profile?

Answer 17

Use File Server Resource Manager in Windows Server 2016 to set a quota on the shared location where roaming user profiles are stored

Question 18

What happens if a local volume exceeds its disk quota?

Answer 18

Users wont be able to write more data to the volume

Question 19

What happens if a shared folder exceeds its disk quota?

Answer 19

The local copy of a roaming profile won’t sync with the network share, meaning changes won’t copy to the file server.

Question 20

How would folder redirection be configured?

Answer 20

Group Policy

Question 21

True or false: you can use folder redirection in conjunction with quotas

Answer 21

True

Question 22

When using Group Policy to limit user profile size, what happens if a Local user exceeds the size limit?

Answer 22

Users can still write data to their profiles but are notified on sign-out that they have exceeded their limit

Question 23

When using Group Policy to limit user profile size, what happens if a Roaming user profile exceeds the size limit?

Answer 23

Local changes won’t be copied to the server until the profile is under the maximum size again.

Question 24

What would you use to implement Folder Redirection for user profiles?

Answer 24

Group Policy

Question 25

True or false: redirected folder content is available to any computer on the network and doesn't copy to the computer as it would with a Roaming profile

Answer 25

True

Question 26

What Group Policy would you implement to configure Folder Redirection?

Answer 26

'User configuration -> Policies\Windows Settings\Folder Redirection'

Question 27

What does the 'Offline Files' feature of Folder Redirection do?

Answer 27

Provides access to content in redirected folders even without connectivity

Question 28

is the 'Offline Files' feature of Folder Redirection enabled by default?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

True or False: only specific folders in a user profile can be redirected

Answer 29

True - Documents, Desktop, Start Menu etc

Question 30

True or False: Settings stored in NTUSER.DAT can be redirected

Answer 30

False

Question 31

What is the advantage of redirected folders not copying data to local computers?

Answer 31

Minimal network traffic during sign-in

Question 32

What license is required for Enterprise State Roaming

Answer 32

Entra ID P1/P2

Question 33

What does Enterprise State Roaming do?

Answer 33

Syncs settings across Entra-joined devices

Question 34

What are the only types of apps that Enterprise State Roaming syncs data for?

Answer 34

State of Business UWP apps

Question 35

What does Enterprise State Roaming use to automatically encrypt all synced data?

Answer 35

Azure Rights Management (Azure RMS)

Question 36

How long after last being accessed is Azure-synced Enterprise State Roaming data retained after it was last accessed?

Answer 36

90 Days

Question 37

Enterprise State Roaming has no mechanism for syncing files such as Documents, Pictures etc. What would you use instead?

Answer 37

OneDrive

Question 38

What is the disadvantage of using Enterprise State Roaming and OneDrive?

Answer 38

There is no solution for syncing all data, particularly Desktop app data

Question 39

What data does Microsoft Edge Sync synchronise across devices? (7)

Answer 39

-Favourites -Passwords -Form-fill -History -Open tabs/sessions -Settings/Preferences -Extensions

Question 40

What does UE-V stand for?

Answer 40

User Experience Virtualisation

Question 41

What Windows edition supports UE-V?

Answer 41

Windows Enterprise

Question 42

What does UE-V do?

Answer 42

Syncs the following data between computers in the same AD-DS domain environment: -OS settings -Desktop App settings -MS Store App settings -Network Printers -User Credentials

Question 43

When does support for UE-V end?

Answer 43

April 2026

Question 44

Where can you enable Enterprise State Roaming?

Answer 44

Entra ID -> Devices -> Enterprise State Roaming -> 'Users may sync settings and app data across devices'

Question 45

What *data* does ESR sync across devices?

Answer 45

Windows Settings and UWP app data

Question 46

What *Windows Settings* does ESR sync across devices?

Answer 46

-Windows Theme -Internet Explorer settings -Wifi Passwords -Language preferences

Question 47

When a user is deleted in Entra ID, after how long is the user account roaming data deleted?

Answer 47

90-180 days

Question 48

How can an Entra admin manually delete a specific user's roaming data/settings?

Answer 48

File a ticket with Azure support

Question 49

User data that isn't accessed in how long is considered Stale and deleted from the cloud?

Answer 49

1 year

Question 50

What happens if the Entra directory admin turns off ESR for the entire directory?

Answer 50

All users will stop syncing settings and all user data will therefore become stale

Question 51

True or false: the user data retention policy is configurable in Entra

Answer 51

False