MSCSAuth and MSCSProfile Ticket Characteristics

The following table lists the major characteristics of MSCSAuth tickets and MSCSProfile tickets.

Characteristic	MSCSAuth	MSCSProfile
User Type	Assigned to registered users. In this context, “registered” refers to a user who has successfully completed a registration process for the relevant site.	Assigned to anonymous users.
Storage	Stored as a session cookie or encoded in the URL string. It is valid for the duration of the session or for a specified time window, and then is deleted.	Stored as a persistent cookie on the computer of the user. If it is encoded in the URL string, the MSCSProfile ticket is not stored, and therefore is not persisted when the session ends.
Contents	Contains unique user ID, last login time, time window and optional custom properties.	Contains unique user ID and optional custom properties.

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