Sepago releases Profile Nurse!
User profiles store a lot of data and information that is more or less important to the owner of the
profile. Applications leave their marks in the file system and registry to set user specified settings. As
a consequence a profile grows larger and larger over time. As the work environment (applications,
settings, needed files, etc.) changes around the user, some data becomes obsolete and only bloats
the profile.
This may not be problematic on a single computer with few users and local profiles, but it becomes a
problem in professional environments, where profiles are not bound to a single computer. In this case
profiles have to be transferred to the computer, on which the user logs on.
Citrix offers the Portable Profile Manager as a highly efficient way to minimize the transferred data
and to solve other problems associated with Windows user profile migration. In addition to this,
administrators might want to gather information about user profiles in regard to registry and file
system content and to clean up user profiles from time to time to retrieve extra storage space and
reduce profile sizes.
ProfileNurse addresses these problems with a simple command line interface, a highly mutable
configuration file structure and processing of an arbitrary number of profiles. The administrator can
easily configure settings for registry and file system query or cleaning and let ProfileNurse do the work
on all user profiles.
The following chapters describe the functionality ProfileNurse provides, how to set up a configuration
file, how to use it to gather information about profiles and how to maintain them.
Profile Nurse
