Folder De-Localization with Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM)

User Profiles
Published May 27, 2009 Updated Jan 4, 2012

Windows user profiles prior to Vista / Server 2008 contain localized folder names. End users expect that, of course, but admins tend to hate it because automated management becomes much more difficult. How can this dilemma be resolved? End users only see the local copy of the profile, while admins mostly have to deal with the central copy on a file server. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a “translator” component that makes sure local folders are localized while central folders are in one language only?

Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) does exactly that. It de-localizes well-known profile folders when storing them in the central user store and translates the names back to the current system’s locale when copying the profile to the user’s machine during logon. This translation process is fully automatic and opaque to both user and admin.

Administrators who want to use scripts or tools like ProfileNurse for server-side profile management need to know the names used for de-localized folders by UPM. Here is a list of each localized profile folder along with its UPM variable name:

Folder name [english locale]	Folder name [UPM variable]
Accessibility	Accessibility_upm_var
Accessories	Accessories_upm_var
Administrative Tools	AdminTools_upm_var
Application Data	AppData_upm_var
Cookies	Cookies_upm_var
Desktop	Desktop_upm_var
Entertainment	Entertainment_upm_var
Favorites	Favorites_upm_var
History	History_upm_var
Links	Links_upm_var
Local Settings	LocalSettings_upm_var
My Documents	MyDocuments_upm_var
My Music	MyMusic_upm_var
My Pictures	MyPictures_upm_var
My Videos	MyVideos_upm_var
NetHood	NetHood_upm_var
PrintHood	PrintHood_upm_var
Programs	Programs_upm_var
Recent	Recent_upm_var
SendTo	SendTo_upm_var
Start Menu	StartMenu_upm_var
Templates	Templates_upm_var
Temporary Internet Files	TemporaryInternetFiles_upm_var
Startup	Startup_upm_var
System Tools	System Tools_upm_var

Above list does not tell you where each folder is located in the hierarchy. Well, UPM does not change the folder hierarchy, but here is a representation of the structure of all de-localized folders anyway:

AppData_upm_var
Cookies_upm_var
Desktop_upm_var
Favorites_upm_var\Links_upm_var
LocalSettings_upm_var\AppData_upm_var
LocalSettings_upm_var\History_upm_var
LocalSettings_upm_var\TemporaryInternetFiles_upm_var
MyDocuments_upm_var\MyMusic_upm_var
MyDocuments_upm_var\MyPictures_upm_var
MyDocuments_upm_var\MyVideos_upm_var
NetHood_upm_var
PrintHood_upm_var
Recent_upm_var
SendTo_upm_var
StartMenu_upm_var\Programs_upm_var\Accessories_upm_var\Accessibility_upm_var
StartMenu_upm_var\Programs_upm_var\Accessories_upm_var\Entertainment_upm_var
StartMenu_upm_var\Programs_upm_var\Accessories_upm_var\SystemTools_upm_var
StartMenu_upm_var\Programs_upm_var\AdminTools_upm_var
StartMenu_upm_var\Programs_upm_var\Startup_upm_var
Templates_upm_var

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