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6 (Optional) Configure other group policy settings in Active Directory or the Local Computer Policy
configuration.
7 Create desktop pools from the virtual machines on which you installed Horizon Agent with the View
Persona Management setup option.
Configure a User Profile Repository
You can configure a remote repository to store the user data and settings, application-specific data, and
other user-generated information in user profiles. If Windows roaming profiles are configured in your
deployment, you can use an existing Active Directory user profile path instead.
NOTE You can configure View Persona Management without having to configure Windows roaming
profiles.
Prerequisites
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Familiarize yourself with the minimum access permissions that are required to configure a shared
folder. See “Setting Access Permissions on Shared Folders for View Persona Management,” on
page 307.
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Familiarize yourself with the guidelines for creating a user profile repository. See “Creating a Network
Share for View Persona Management,” on page 308
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.
CAUTION Make sure that access permissions are configured correctly. The incorrect configuration of
access permissions on the shared folder is the most common cause of problems with View Persona
Management.
Setting Access Permissions on Shared Folders for View Persona Management
View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles require a specific minimum level of permissions
on the user profile repository. View Persona Management also requires that the security group of the users
who put data on the shared folder must have read attributes on the share.
Set the required access permissions on your user profile repository and redirected folder share.
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