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%SystemDrive%\Program Files\Shibboleth\SP\xml(Vista and later)%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Shibboleth\SP\xml(Win2003 and earlier)
By the joys of symbolic links, backwards compatibility can be maintained across all platforms by opening %ALLUSERSAPPPROFILE%\Application Data\Shibboleth\SP\xml. This has the advantage of not requiring special knowledge about which is the boot device.
The merge modules do NOT make changes to the path. It is as assumption that the parent installer will make this change.
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