Chapter 7: Supporting Mobile Users

Highlights

For organizations that support mobile users, important considerations are hardware, power management, and security on portable computers. In addition, some administrative concerns are relevant to roaming users in organizations that use roaming user profiles or Folder Redirection. Microsoft Windows XP Professional can be configured and administered to provide support for mobile users, and includes features and tools that are designed specifically for portable computer users.

Related Information

• For more information about remote networking, see Connecting Remote Offices in this book.

• For more information about IntelliMirror management technologies such as Offline Files, Folder Redirection, and roaming user profiles, see Managing Files and Folders in this book.

• For more information about implementing security for mobile users, see Securing Mobile Computers in the Microsoft Windows Security Resource Kit and in this book.