3.1.1 Abstract Data Model
This section describes a model of possible data organization that an implementation maintains to participate in this protocol. The described organization is provided to explain how the protocol behaves. This document does not mandate that implementations adhere to this model as long as their external behavior is consistent with what is described in this document.
This Folder Redirection Administrative-Side Plug-in relies on a collection of settings specified in section 2.2.1.1, and it is stored as a configuration file with encoded Unicode characters at a remote storage location, such as a network share whose path is passed to it by the Group Policy Object, as specified in [MS-GPOL].
The Folder Redirection Administrative-Side Plug-in reads these settings from the remote storage location and displays them to an administrator by way of a user interface.
An administrator then uses the user interface to make further configuration changes to users' folders, and the administrative-side plug-in writes these changes back to the remote storage location as a Unicode configuration file whose format is defined in section 2.2.1.1.
Note The preceding conceptual data can be implemented using a variety of techniques. Any data structure that stores the preceding conceptual data can be used in the implementation.