Managed Profile has been designed to couple the stability of mandatory profiles with the flexibility of roaming profiles and includes functionality to intelligently save and restore settings even in situations where users may have multiple instances of their profile loaded. It also includes functionality for managing registry and printer settings, desktop shortcuts, drive mappings, starting of processes during logon and logoff and the creation of explorer namespace folders. Scripts simplify the logon and logoff processes and comprehensive logging provides a clear audit trail. In short, Managed Profile offers stability, flexibility and control for effective, trouble-free management of user profiles.