MCITP: Profiles

PROFILES:

Profile is a user state environment. Profile contains personal settings of the user like

• Documents, Desktop Settings
• Start Menu Icons, Short Cuts
• Application Data, Downloads
• Contacts, Favorites.
• Pictures, Music, Video etc.

We are having 3 types of profiles.

1. Local User Profile
2. Roaming User Profile
3. Mandatory User Profile

Local User Profile:  A local user profile is created the first time you log on to a computer and it is stored on a computer local hard disk at SAM data base.

Any changes made to your local user profile are specific to the computer on which you made the changes.

Roaming User Profile:  Your roaming user profile is created by your system administrator and it is stored on server.

This profile is available every time you log on the any computer on the network.

Changes made to your roaming user profile are updated on server.

Mandatory User Profile: A mandatory user profile is a roaming profile.

mandatory profiles are fixed profiles in which the user changes will not be saved.

Only administrator can make changes to mandatory profiles.


How to create user account using with Command Prompt?

Go to Command Prompt --> dsadd user cn=user name, cn=users dc=domain name, dc=com -pwd (password)

cn = canonical name