Configure User Profiles

Introduction

Welcome to the Configure User Profiles Practice Lab. In this module you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

• Exercise 1 - Manage User Profiles

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Manage local and roaming user profiles

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this lab:

• Understand accounts and groups - User profiles

Lab Duration

It will take approximately 45 minutes to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Manage User Profiles

User profiles define the desktop settings and application preferences that are created when a user initially signs-in to a Windows computer. On subsequent sign-ins, a user can customize his profile by adding program shortcuts, populate a folder such as Documents with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and other file types. Downloads folder is the default location for files downloaded from the Internet. Likewise, Videos, Music folders contain media that were either created or downloaded by the user from different sources. For complete list of folders and items in a user profile, you can look up C:\Users where each user is allotted a folder that hosts the user profile settings.

By default, a user profile is local, meaning it is saved on the computer assigned to the user. With a few configuration changes a local profile can be converted to a roaming type which will follow the user to other Windows 10 domain-joined workstations.