Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Overview of Setting Up a View Persona Management Deployment
To set up a View desktop deployment or standalone computers with View Persona Management, you must
perform several high-level tasks.
This sequence is recommended, although you can perform these tasks in a different sequence. For example,
you can configure or reconfigure group policy settings in Active Directory after you deploy desktop pools.
1 Configure a remote repository to store user profiles.
You can configure a network share or use an existing Active Directory user profile path that you
configured for Windows roaming profiles.
2 Install View Agent with the View Persona Management setup option on the virtual machines that you
use to create desktop pools.
To configure View Persona Management for non-View laptops, desktops, or virtual machines, install
the standalone View Persona Management software on each computer in your targeted deployment.
3 Add the View Persona Management Administrative (ADM) Template file to your Active Directory
server or the Local Computer Policy configuration on the parent virtual machine.
To configure View Persona Management for your whole View or non-View deployment, add the ADM
Template file to Active Directory.
To configure View Persona Management for one desktop pool, you can take these approaches:
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Add the ADM Template file to the virtual machine that you use to create the pool.
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Add the ADM Template file to Active Directory and apply the group policy settings to the OU that
contains the machines 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
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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 261.
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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 262
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