Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Gargee Sharma

Tyler Jeffrey White

Abhishek Kumar

Peter Gregory Davis

Kyle James Krum

Matthias Baer

Raju Jain

Craig Thomas McIntyre

Stephen Frederick Starck

Kurt Allen Geisel

Carson J Hicks

Subash Kumar Bhamidipati

Ying Zhe Chong

Cancan Shi

Bhanu Samyal

Kolby Hoover

Ananthakrishnan Ramanathan

Kerwin Almer M Azares

Matthew Carlo Razza

Vidya Kotteri

A multi-user aware ('MUA') computing device, such a communal computing device like an interactive digital whiteboard, can enforce role-based constraints on the modification of components, such as configuration settings. The MUA computing device can be configured with universal settings, global settings, and temporal settings. Universal settings cannot be changed by users of the MUA computing device. Device owners can change global settings that apply to all users of a MUA computing device. All users of the MUA computing device can change temporal settings. Changes to temporal settings are stored in profiles associated with authenticated users but are not persisted for guest users. When all users have stopped using the MUA computing device, the device can be configured with default values for the temporal settings in order to return the device to a known state.

Enforcement of role-based constraints on the modification of components of a multi-user aware computing device

Techniques are disclosed for configuring a group of displays. A grouping of display devices that are to be combined to form an integrated display is identified. A prompt is generated for user input indicative of a spatial arrangement of the display devices. In response to the prompt, a series of user inputs is received by one or more input sensors. Based on the series of user inputs, the spatial arrangement of the display devices is estimated. Based on the estimated spatial arrangement of the display devices, portions of display data are mapped to the display devices. The mapped portions of the display data are rendered on the display devices to form an integrated display.

Setting up multiple displays via user input

Changing user settings across applications and/or across devices via a dialog within one application is provided herein. The systems and methods discussed herein provide for an improved user experience and fewer computing resources to be expended when changing user settings by aggregating the changeable settings, allowing for their modification via a single dialog, and distributing settings changes to remote hosts, which in turn provide consistent settings across devices. The settings available to the user may be governed in association with the user's licenses to access programs and may be affected by domain level controls by an administrator.

User settings across programs

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