I am having real trouble understanding the concept of moving away from roaming profiles and using UEM instead to preserve user settings.
I have seen all the best practices about not using folder redirection for anything as it can slow down performance but then how do you preserve changes made by individual users especially changes that were kept in the roaming app data folder when using profiles?
I have users that log onto non-persistent desktops, makes changes to pin icons to taskbar, pin documents to office. They log off and the desktop is destroyed, they then log on again to a new desktop and all their changes are lost. How do individual users keep their settings saved using UEM?
I have seen things about adding the following as an example
but then where is it including these folder trees from? Surely a user must have to have an individual folder or place where their data is stored so that when they log back on, it writes it to their desktop session?
It all sounds very unclear and hoping someone can make me understand this better?
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The configuration files tells the uem agent where the settings are so at logoff it can create a zipfile based on those files and registry settings to be unzipped in the correct location on the next logon or direct flex trigger. In the uem configuration you specified a section for
archives, this these zip files are located this location, look at the below link for a reference
VMware User Environment Manager Deployed in 60 Minutes or Less | VMware End-User Computing Blog
If your asking what the appdata and localappdata tags are, these come from the user profile. Appdata is C:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming and localappdata is C:\users\<userdata>\appdata\local
For your specific issue, you should have a Taskbar configuration file under Windows Settings, in the Personalization setting. If its not there you can click create config file and pick use a windows common setting
