Office Container

In addition to tools for configuration and management of FSLogix Profile Containers, Parallels RAS supports configuration and management of FSLogix Office Containers. Below you will find the benefits of this solution used alone and together with Profile Containers.

As stated above, Profile Container is used to redirect the full user profile, while Office Container redirects only the local user files for Microsoft Office (for example .OST files for Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft OneDrive cache). Office Container is especially useful for customers who are satisfied with their existing profile management solution and only want to enhance user experience with Microsoft 365 applications or use Profile Container and Office Container together.

Using Profile Container and Office Container together

The most important benefits of using both solutions are:

• Office data is separated from other profile data.

• If Office Container or Profile Container is damaged, the remaining data is kept intact. This can be useful when a problem occurs with Office Data which can be recovered from the server because the Office Container can be deleted without impacting the rest of the user configuration.

• Office Container may be used with Profile Container as a mechanism to specify which Office components will have their data included in the container.

• When using both Office Container and Profile Container, you have more granular control over the amount of data a user is allowed to store for each of the types of data.

For more information, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/profile-container-office-container-cncpt.