![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For Windows Server 2012, we wanted to find a simpler way to manage user data-compared to using roaming profiles, Profile management in Windows Server 2008 R2 In an earlier post, we described the different options for This post describes the new user data management available in Windows Server 2012. (Of course, these technologies can be used together fruitfully. User profile disks store user and application data on a single virtual disk that is dedicated to one user’s profile. One of the key challenges to pooled virtual desktop deployments is easily maintaining the user settings and data this is because this information is discarded at logoff when a pooled virtual desktop image is rolled back to its initial state. User profile disks provide an easy way to store the user settings and data on a separate virtual disk that is reattached at logon, so the user data isn’t discarded when the virtual machine rolls back. User profile disks are completely transparent to the user-users can save documents to their Documents folder (on what appears to be a local drive) and change their background wallpaper and app settings while, at the same time, all personal settings persist when connecting to different computers in a virtual desktop collection or session collection. This provides Admins with the reduced management and storage benefits of pooled virtual desktops while still providing the personalization of personal virtual desktops. User profile disks offer several advantages:Ĭonfiguration and deployment is simpler than roaming profiles or folder redirection. User profiles can be maintained even on pooled virtual desktops that get rolled back after logoff. Previously, profiles could be corrupted if used simultaneously on multiple computers. User profile disks are specific to the collection, so they can’t be used on multiple computers simultaneously.Īdministrators can have granular control of exactly which locations get saved to the virtual hard disk (VHDX). User profile disks can be stored on Server Message Block (SMB) shares, cluster shared volumes, SANs, or local storage. In pooled virtual desktop collections, user profile disks work with virtual machines running both Windows 8 and Windows 7 with Service Pack 1 (SP1). Some things to remember about user profile disks: #SMBUP MANAGE USERS FAIL WINDOWS 8# Thanks! brycesteiner Posts: 97 Joined: 7.User profile disks are available only in pooled virtual desktop collections and session collections-not in personal virtual desktop collections. So I would like to keep XP and use an XP guest server. Not to mention some of the features were removed. I could upgrade the guests right? I've made numerous attempts to upgrade to 7 and 10 and it works successfully but the newer versions of Acrobat (which is a must) don't have near the ability to change the look and use much more screen realestate. Everything went well until I realized that it's connection XP guest server is as a share which cannot be re-shared. My next idea was to run a virtual machine that shared the folders from an XP guest using Shared Folders. After reading SMBup's installation it says it will replace the apple SMB server. My first idea was to install SMBup again with Samba and use a different WINS name from the Server WINS name-basically run two different SMB servers on one computer with different names. So here is my problem: XP clients use SMB1 and they seem to connect to fine to other windows computers but they cannot connect/open or save files, even with changing the registry, to OS X Yosemite Server consistently. The folders with lots of files display much faster than with AFP. It's been good for the Mac computers-surprisingly. Now that Apple is not supporting AFP anymore I'm switching all the clients to SMB3 and turning off AFP in the server. I was using the SMBUP and it worked great for XP users. I am running Yosemite server and I'm fully committed using the SMB that's built in. ![]()
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