Microsoft Windows Enterprise State Roaming - First Thoughts

User Profiles
Published Feb 5, 2016 Updated Jun 22, 2016

Microsoft just announced a new service called Enterprise State Roaming. The broader goal seems to be to replace roaming user profiles. That, however, is not going to happen any time soon.

What We Know

Here is the link to the announcement.

Requirements

An Azure Active Directory Premium subscription is required.

In addition to that Enterprise State Roaming only works with Windows 10 build 1511 (or newer) when joined to an Azure AD.

Caveats

Enterprise State Roaming is designed to store app settings (not data!) in Azure
Enterprise State Roaming only syncs settings from “modern” and “universal” apps, not Win32 apps. This means that settings from 99.99% of all applications are not roamed.
Enterprise State Roaming operates asynchronously, ie. settings become available locally some time after the user has logged on.

Enterprise State Roaming Microsoft

Comments

Comments are powered by Giscus. Please enable JavaScript to view them, or view discussions directly on GitHub.

Related Posts

How to Configure a File Server for Hosting User Profiles

How to Configure a File Server for Hosting User Profiles

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. Setting up a network share on a file server for hosting user profiles is not too difficult if you follow the steps outlined in this article. The recommendations I give here apply to both Windows roaming profiles and Citrix Profile Management (UPM) profiles.

Error Message Explained: User Profile Service Failed the Logon

This article is part of Helge’s Profile Toolkit, a set of posts explaining the knowledge and tools required to tame Windows user profiles. Many errors related to user profiles result in the user getting a temporary profile instead of the regular local or roaming profile. I have written about possible causes for that here. In addition to that, there is an entirely different category of errors that occur when even a temporary profile cannot be created. This article describes likely causes.

Manual Folder Redirection with Symbolic Links

Manual Folder Redirection with Symbolic Links

This is a guest post by Bryan Chriscoli, who implemented an innovative alternative to folder redirection with the help of symbolic links, AppSense products and PowerShell scripting. All credit goes to him.

Windows 10 Roaming Profile: Sharing Violation Every 2nd Logon

I came across this problem while preparing my sessions for this year’s conferences. The setup is boringly simple: a user with a roaming profile logging on to a Windows 10 machine. The interesting part: every second time, loading the roaming profile would fail - causing a 35 second logon delay. Every other time, it would work.

Latest Posts

Introducing Sambee, Your Browser-Based File Manager for SMB Shares and Local Drives

Introducing Sambee, Your Browser-Based File Manager for SMB Shares and Local Drives

Sambee is a browser-based viewer and manager for files on SMB network shares and on your computer’s local drives. It supports single-pane and dual-pane views and can replace Windows File Explorer as well as Norton Commander-style tools on your PC and on your phone. And yes, it’s free and open source.

WSL Disk Space Cleanup

WSL Disk Space Cleanup

The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) stores its virtual hard disks in the user profile on drive C:. These VHDX files can grow up to 1 TB in size, making it necessary to clean up and reclaim space occasionally. This article shows how.

Virtualization & Containers

Changing the Location of PowerShell Profile Scripts

A PowerShell profile is an init script that is executed when the shell starts. PowerShell searches for profile scripts in hard-coded locations. This article explains how to move profile scripts to any directory of your choice.

Changing the Location of the Windows Terminal Settings Files

Changing the Location of the Windows Terminal Settings Files

Windows Terminal stores its settings in configuration files that resides in the Windows user profile. This article explains how to move them to any directory of your choice. Where are the Settings Files Located? The location of the Windows Terminal settings file is hard-coded. The exact path depends on the app variant you installed, but it’s always in the user profile: