Implementing View Persona Management
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...