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For information about roaming user profiles security, see the Microsoft TechNet topic, Security
Recommendations for Roaming User Profiles Shared Folders.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757013(WS.10).aspx
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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You must create the full profile path under which the user profile folders will be created. If part of the
path does not exist, Windows creates the missing folders when the first user logs in and assigns the
user's security restrictions to those folders. Windows assigns the same security restrictions to every
folder it creates under that path.
For example, for user1 you might configure the View Persona Management
path \\server\VPRepository\profiles\user1. If you create the network share \\server\VPRepository,
and the profiles folder does not exist, Windows creates the path \profiles\user1 when user1 logs in.
Windows restricts access to the \profiles\user1 folders to the user1 account. If another user logs in
with a profile path in \\server\VPRepository\profiles, the second user cannot access the repository
and the user's profile fails to be replicated.
Install View Agent with the View Persona Management Option
To use View Persona Management with View desktops, you must install View Agent with the View
Persona Management setup option on the virtual machines that you use to create desktop pools.
For an automated pool, you install View Agent with the View Persona Management setup option on the
virtual machine that you use as a parent or template. When you create a desktop pool from the virtual
machine, the View Persona Management software is deployed on your View desktops.
For a manual pool, you must install View Agent with the View Persona Management setup option on each
virtual machine that is used as a desktop in the pool. Use Active Directory to configure View Persona
Management group policies for a manual pool. The alternative is to add the ADM Template file and
configure group policies on each individual machine.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you are performing the installation on a Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2,
or Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine. View Persona Management does not operate on Microsoft
RDS hosts.
Installing View Agent with the View Persona Management setup option does not work on physical
computers. You can install the standalone View Persona Management software on physical computers.
See “Install Standalone View Persona Management,” on page 263.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
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