User profiles, folder redirection and OneDrive
Roaming profiles, folder redirection and OneDrive Known Folder Move: what each does, how they conflict, and how to protect user data while fixing them.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 40 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Explain roaming profiles, folder redirection and OneDrive Known Folder Move
- Identify conflicts between redirection methods
- Fix profile problems while protecting user data
Course outline
- 1.User profiles, folder redirection and OneDriveVideo · 5 min
- 2.Where a user's files actually liveLesson · 13 min
- 3.Temporary profiles and the ProfileList keyLesson · 14 min
- 4.OneDrive Known Folder Move and Files On-Demand at the deskLesson · 12 min
- 5.User profiles, folder redirection and OneDrive: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Documents conflict between redirection and OneDriveScenario
- 7.Final exam4 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Microsoft Learn: Deploy roaming user profiles
- Microsoft Learn: Deploy Folder Redirection with Offline Files
- Microsoft Learn: Redirect and move Windows known folders to OneDrive
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