Patent ID: 8745175

Claim:
A method, comprising: storing predetermined service information on a server, where the service information includes information for configuring services for a plurality of users and where the service information does not include information specific to a particular user; creating, on the server, a user record in response to the creation of a user account for a user, the user record including user-specific information; automatically provisioning user-specific configuration information on the server for services associated with the user account by combining the predetermined service information with the user-specific information, where the user-specific configuration information determines how services accessed using respective applications running on a particular client will be configured on the client for the user in order to provide user access to the services; appending the user-specific configuration information to the user record; storing the user record on the server; receiving a request at the server from the client for the configuration information of the user; and copying the configuration information from the user record to the client.