Virtually Jason

So, I implemented Persona Management a few months ago and figured that I’d write a quick followup with my experiences since then.  As a technology, it strikes me as both really cool and a little difficult.  It deals with the persistency issues that you would typically enable Roaming Profiles to resolve, and  I haven’t seen any of the profile corruption issues in Persona Management for which Roaming Profiles are infamous.  So, that’s a plus.  It also does what it’s supposed to do, which isn’t always a given when you’re working with relatively new technologies.  That said, there are some issues that it seems to have introduced into this environment. 1) Rapidly logging back in after logging out causes a hung logon. 2) Loopback processing applied logon scripts are ignored after the initial Persona is created. The rapid logoff/logon issue doesn’t strike me as vital.  I’d certainly like to fix it, but that’s a fringe case and it seems to be self-correc...

View Persona Management is a new feature to View, as of version 5.0.  People have had some difficulties in getting it up and running, and I am most certainly included in that list.  After more work than I’d care to admit (and several calls to VMware), we’ve gotten it up and running.  Now that I’ve seen it in action, all that I can say is “wow”.  It was a painful process to get it to where we are now, but now that it’s running it’s working really well and has satisfied my customer’s user customization needs spectacularly.  Here’s my implementation notes, to hopefully make my (and others’) future deployments go more smoothly. First, a brief overview of what Persona Management is, for the uninitiated (if you already know, feel free to skip this and the next paragraph).  Speaking plainly, Persona Management is another option instead of Windows Roaming Profiles.  It does have a few very important distinctions that make it work much better than Roaming Pr...