Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

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If a folder redirection setting is disabled or not configured, the folder is stored on the local View
desktop and managed according to the View Persona Management group policy settings.
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If View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles are configured to redirect the same
folder, View Persona Management's folder redirection takes precedence over Windows roaming
profiles.
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Folder redirection applies only to applications that use the Windows shell APIs to redirect common
folder paths. For example, if an application writes a file to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming, the file is
written to the local profile and not redirected to the network location.
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By default, Windows folder redirection gives users exclusive rights to redirected folders. To grant
domain administrators access to newly redirected folders, you can use a View Persona Management
group policy setting.
Windows folder redirection has a check box called Grant user exclusive rights to folder-name, which
gives the specified user exclusive rights to the redirected folder. As a security measure, this check box is
selected by default. When this check box is selected, administrators do not have access to the redirected
folder. If an administrator attempts to force change the access rights for a user's redirected folder, View
Persona Management no longer works for that user.
You can make newly redirected folders accessible to domain administrators by using the Add the
administrators group to redirected folders group policy setting. This setting lets you grant the domain
administrators group full control over each redirected folder. See Table 17-5.
For existing redirected folders, see “Granting Domain Administrators Access to Existing Redirected
Folders,” on page 277.
You can specify folder paths that are excluded from folder redirection. See Table 17-5.
CAUTION View does not support enabling folder redirection to a folder that is already in a profile managed
by View Persona Management. This configuration can cause failures in View Persona Management and loss
of user data.
For example, if the root folder in the remote profile repository is \\Server\%username%\, and you redirect
folders to \\Server\%username%\Desktop, these settings would cause a failure of folder redirection in View
Persona Management and the loss of any contents that were previously in the \\Server\%username%\Desktop
folder.
You can redirect the following folders to a network share:
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Application Data (roaming)
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Contacts
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Cookies
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Desktop
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Downloads
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Favorites
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History
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Links
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My Documents
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My Music
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My Pictures
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My Videos
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Network Neighborhood
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