{"id":10742,"date":"2010-07-31T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T13:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10742"},"modified":"2010-07-31T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T13:05:45","slug":"user-state-virtualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10742","title":{"rendered":"User State Virtualization"},"content":{"rendered":"

What the hell is USV?  It\u2019s simple; it\u2019s using technologies to unbind user data from the PC.  You\u2019re talking about features like roaming profiles, redirected folders and offline files.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, most companies I encounter have not<\/em> done this.  For them, a PC repair is the timely process.  A PC upgrade is a potentially nasty piece of work to use USMT to capture a user state and restore it.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why MS has released a Planning and Designing Guide for Windows User State Virtualization (USV)<\/a>.  Reading this, you can enjoy the tech that the rest of us have been using since the mid 1990\u2019s.  Some of us stated using redirected folders and offline files back with W2003 and XP.  Admittedly, I disabled Offline Files when managing XP because it was a royal PITA (not a good thing).  Vista\/Windows 7 appear to have solved that.<\/p>\n

Getting the user state off of the PC is invaluable:<\/p>\n