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Add the ADM Template file to Active Directory and apply the group policy settings to the OU that
contains the desktops in the pool.
4 Enable View Persona Management by enabling the Manage user persona group policy setting.
5 If you configured a network share for the remote profile repository, enable the Persona repository
location group policy setting and specify the network share path.
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 View 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
Familiarize yourself with the guidelines for creating a user profile repository. See “Creating a Network Share
for View Persona Management,” on page 177.
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
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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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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