Immidio Flex Profiles Advanced is a Windows Profile Management solution which solves a lot of issues and optimizes the overall user experience. This is achieved by decoupling and segmenting personal application settings from the underlying Windows OS and profile, making these settings available cross-Windows platform and creating a consistent user experience no matter what Windows OS the user is working on.
The approach for the Windows XP to Windows 7 migration is pretty straightforward and consists of the following steps.
Implement Immidio Flex Profiles Advanced in your current Windows XP environment.
- Install the FlexEngine (tiny MSI) on each endpoint.
- Configure the FlexEngine through Active Directory Group Policy with help of the provided ADM template.
- Make sure the FlexEngine runs at Logon and Logoff for all users. (e.g. Logon and Logoff scripts).
- Use the Flex Profiles Management Console to create application-specific configuration files for the application settings you want to “decouple” from the Windows Profile.
From this point on, the application settings you configured will be stored outside the Windows profile once a user logs off, on a location you configured (e.g. homedrive). Let users work in this situation for such a period of time that you are sure that all the configured application settings are “decoupled” for all users.
