Profile Management

What’s new

What’s new in 2311

This release includes the following new features and enhancements. It also addresses several issues that help to improve overall performance and stability.

Improved user store selection

By default, when multiple user stores are available, Profile Management selects the store with the latest profile data. If more than one store has the latest profile, Profile Management selects the one configured earliest.

With a new policy, User store selection method, you can now enable Profile Management to select the store with the best access performance. For more information, see Change the user store selection method.

Files deduplication support extended to profile containers

File deduplication has been extended to profile containers, allowing you to efficiently reduce storage costs for profile containers. By default, Profile Management deduplicates files from profile containers only when those files are larger than 256 MB. If necessary, you can increase this threshold size using a new policy, Minimum size of files to deduplicate from profile containers. For more information, see Enable file deduplication.

Support for force logging off users when the profile container is unavailable during logon

By default, when the profile container is unavailable during user logon, a user logs on using the temporary profile instead. However, this behavior leads to data loss for any changes made during the session. With a new policy, Log off users when profile container is not available during logon, you can now force log-off users in such cases. For more information, see Set up profile containers.

Support for enabling read access to profile containers

By default, a profile container is accessible only to its owner. With a new policy, Users and groups to access profile container, you can now enable other users to have Read access to the profile container. This policy empowers you to exercise more precise and secure control over profile container access. For more information, see Grant AD users Read access to profile containers.

Support for enabling both multi-session write-back and local caching for profile containers

In container-based profile solutions, you can now enable both the Enable multi-session write-back for profile containers and Enable local caching for profile containers policies. This enhancement improves user experience by combining the benefits of both policies, which include:

  • Data consistency across concurrent sessions (through multi-session write-back)
  • Faster logon and logoff times and reduced network load (through local caching)

For more information, see Set up profile containers.

Multi-session runtime sync support for OneDrive files

With the OneDrive container enabled, any changes a user makes to OneDrive files in a session are now instantly visible in its concurrent sessions. This improvement reduces synchronization conflicts and ensures data integrity. For more information, see Enable the OneDrive container.

Single Sign-On (SSO) sync support for OneDrive Container

With this enhancement, users now don’t have to reenter credentials for OneDrive during subsequent logons, improving user convenience. For more information, see Enable the OneDrive container.

Support for the new Microsoft Teams

With the UWP app roaming policy enabled, the new Microsoft Teams app can now roam with users. Therefore, users can access the same Microsoft Teams app with their personalized settings and data from different devices.

Health check enhancements

We’ve enhanced our Profile Management health check tool to provide more comprehensive health checks. Besides the existing status checks, the tool can now provide more checks such as an assessment of logon times, letting you quickly identify and resolve issues that might impact the user experience.

Enhanced Profile Management logs

We’ve enhanced Profile Management logs to provide more details for user logon and logoff processes. This improvement enables you to quickly pinpoint the underlying reasons for slow logons or logoffs. For more information, see Check Profile Management log files.

New Windows events for monitoring size changes and sync process durations for pending areas

We’ve added more Windows events for monitoring tools to track both size changes and sync process durations for the pending area. This enhancement provides you with valuable data to more efficiently identify and resolve relevant issues. For more information, see Check Windows events.

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