5.2

Prerequisites
Familiarize
yourself with the guidelines for creating a user profile repository. See “Creating a Network Share
for View Persona Management,” on page 233.
Procedure
1 Determine whether to use an existing Active Directory user profile path or configure a user profile
repository on a network share.
Option Action
Use an existing Active Directory user
profile path
If you have an existing Windows roaming profiles configuration, you can
use
the user profile path in Active Directory that supports roaming profiles.
You can skip the remaining steps in this procedure.
Configure a network share to store
the user profile repository
If you do not have an existing Windows roaming profiles configuration, you
must configure a network share for the user profile repository. Follow the
remaining steps in this procedure.
2 Create
a shared folder on a computer that your users can access from the guest operating systems on their
desktops.
If %username% is not part of the folder path that you configure, View Persona Management appends
%username%.%userdomain% to the path.
For example: \\server.domain.com\VPRepository\%username%.%userdomain%
3 Set access permissions for the shared folders that contain user profiles.
Set the permissions that you would use to configure security for Windows roaming profiles. For details,
see the Microsoft TechNet topic, Security Recommendations for Roaming User Profiles Shared Folders.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757013(WS.10).aspx
The Security Recommendations for Roaming User Profiles Shared Folders topic lists the following minimum
permissions for the security group of users needing to put data on the share: List Folder/Read Data and
Create Folders/Append Data - This Folder Only.
To successfully add the %username%.%userdomain% folder to the network share, you also must configure
the Read Attributes permission.
Creating a Network Share for View Persona Management
You must follow certain guidelines when you create a shared folder to use as a profile repository.
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If you use Windows 8 desktops and your network share uses a OneFS file system on an EMC Isilon NAS
device, the OneFS file system must be version 6.5.5.11 or later.
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You can create the shared folder on a server, a network-attached storage (NAS) device, or a network server.
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The shared folder does not have to be in the same domain as View Connection Server.
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The shared folder must be in the same Active Directory forest as the users who store profiles in the shared
folder.
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You must use a shared drive that is large enough to store the user profile information for your users. To
support a large View deployment, you can configure separate repositories for different desktop pools.
If users are entitled to more than one pool, the pools that share users must be configured with the same
profile repository. If you entitle a user to two pools with two different profile repositories, the user cannot
access the same version of the profile from desktops in each pool.
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