Persist files desktop for a user on a Windows 7 workgroup?

Hello.

I'm about to upgrade my small office for Windows 7.

We are 8 users in total, and I want to set up a working group for everyone to the end of each person having their own connection on each PC - in this way when we "hotdesk", it will not matter where we sat.

I suppose, however, that Windows 7 is unable to persist files saved on a desk by a user on a machine, so that if they sign elsewhere they will appear on the other machine?

I KNOW it's a stupid question - but I reason to my way of thinking?

The usual way to get this kind of hot desking is to keep personal files on a server rather than the PC.

You could get the synchronization between the user account on each computer for a limited amount of data using the desktop app from SkyDrive.

http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-GB/SkyDrive/home

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