5.2

Group Policy
Setting Description
Folders to
background
download
The selected folders are downloaded in the background after a user logs in to the desktop.
In
certain cases, you can optimize View Persona Management by downloading the contents of specific
folders in the background. With this setting, users do not have to wait for large files to download when
they start an application. Also, users do not have to wait for the files to preload when they log in, as
they might if you use the Files and folders to preload setting with very large files.
For example, you can include VMware ThinApp sandbox folders in the Folders to background
download setting. The background download does not affect performance when a user logs in or uses
other applications on the desktop. When the user starts the ThinApp application, the required ThinApp
sandbox files are likely to be downloaded from the remote repository, improving the application
startup time.
Specify paths that are relative to the root of the local profile. Do not specify a drive in a pathname.
Folders to
background
download
(exceptions)
The selected folders are exceptions to the paths that are specified in the Folders to background
download setting.
The
selected folder paths must reside within the folders that you specify in the Folders to background
download setting.
Specify paths that are relative to the root of the local profile. Do not specify a drive in a pathname.
Excluded
processes
The I/O of the specified processes are ignored by View Persona Management.
You might have to add certain anti-virus applications to the Excluded processes list to prevent
performance problems. If an anti-virus application does not have a feature to disable offline file retrieval
during its on-demand scans, the Excluded processes setting prevents the application from retrieving
files unnecessarily. However, View Persona Management does replicate changes to files and settings
in the users' profiles that are made by excluded processes.
To add processes to the Excluded processes list, enable this setting, click Show, type the process name,
and click OK. For example: process.exe.
Folder Redirection Group Policy Settings
With folder redirection group policy settings, you can redirect user profile folders to a network share. When
a folder is redirected, all data is stored directly on the network share during the user session.
You
can use these settings to redirect folders that must be highly available. View Persona Management copies
updates from the local user profile to the remote profile as often as once a minute, depending on the value you
set for the profile upload interval. However, if a network outage or failure on the local system occurs, a user's
updates since the last replication might not be saved in the remote profile. In situations where users cannot
afford a temporary loss of a few minutes of recent work, you can redirect those folders that store this critical
data.
The following rules and guidelines apply to folder redirection:
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When you enable this setting for a folder, you must type the UNC path of the network share to which the
folder is redirected.
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If %username% is not part of the folder path that you configure, View Persona Management appends
%username% to the UNC path.
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As a best practice, configure the folder path to include %username%, but make sure that the last subfolder
in the path uses the name of the redirected folder, such as My Videos. The last folder in the path is displayed
as the folder name on the user's desktop. For details, see “Configuring Paths for Redirected Folders,” on
page 240.
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You configure a separate setting for each folder. You can select particular folders for redirection and leave
others on the local View desktop. You can also redirect different folders to different UNC paths.
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If a folder redirection setting is disabled or not configured, the folder is stored on the local View desktop
and managed according to the View Persona Management group policy settings.
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If View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles are configured to redirect the same folder,
View Persona Management's folder redirection takes precedence over Windows roaming profiles.
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