The Save/Restore operation is the basis of the Simplify Profiles technology. When you select to save/restore a registry key, then that key will be saved to the SQL database when a user logs out of their terminal session, and restore these values when the user logs back in.
To create a registry Save/Restore operation, locate the registry item you want to perform the Save/Restore on, and right-click to bring up a menu of available registry operations. If you selected a registry key, you will have two options under Save/Restore; Entire Key and All Subkeys and Entire Key and No Subkeys. If you have selected a registry value, then the Save/Restore This Value option is available.
Select the operation you wish to perform, and the selected item will turn bold indicating it has an assigned registry operation. The State column will now also specify the registry operation. If a Save/Restore operation was performed on a registry key, all children affected by the new operation will also be bold.
During a user session, the save and restore occurs during user login and logout. When the user logs into a session, Simplify Profiles retrieves the saved registry values from the Simplify database and applies them to the session. Then, when a logout is initiated, Simplify Profiles will save the selected registry values back to the database. By using a central database, the saved settings can be retrieved from any other server with Simplify Suite. Each user maintains his or her unique set of registry settings, even if the registry definition is applied to a group of users.
Note: You can choose to Save/Restore the entire HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive, but it is a best practice to do it on a more granular level in order to reduce login times and unnecessary data replication on the network.
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