Hello,
Thanks for writing. Column state (sort, order, groupby) is not supported out of the box in the Presets helper methods. So you will need some custom code for that. Luckily, we have a great community here in the Infragistics forums and a few people have come with great ideas
So you can check out this post for high level ideas:
http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/p/3510/18508.aspx
And this post for detailed discussion and sample code how to save / restore ALL colunm related interaction:
http://forums.infragistics.com/forums/p/9885/45543.asp