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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. 1.User profiles, folder redirection and OneDriveVideo · 5 min
  2. 2.Where a user's files actually liveLesson · 13 min
  3. 3.Temporary profiles and the ProfileList keyLesson · 14 min
  4. 4.OneDrive Known Folder Move and Files On-Demand at the deskLesson · 12 min
  5. 5.User profiles, folder redirection and OneDrive: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
  6. 6.Documents conflict between redirection and OneDriveScenario
  7. 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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