profile management (upm) - v4.1 shane broomhall apac readiness
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Profile management (UPM) - v4.1Shane BroomhallAPAC Readiness
• Support for PvD• Detects presence of PvD• Adjust configuration automatically
• Group Policy enhancement • .ADMX template
• Simplified default inclusions and exclusions • Default inclusions/exclusions revised • Support for new commonly used apps
What’s New?
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• By default Pm managed profiles are automatically stored on the desktops personal vDisk (by default, P:) rather then the system volume <C:>•Pm profile is still maintained and synched back to the Pm user store allowing the profile to be easily backed-up while also supporting non PvD desktops
•Default behaviour can be altered so that Pm manages user profiles independently on the system volume
Support for Citrix personal vDisk (PvD)
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• Subtle changes made to Pm v4.1
• UPM service checks for the presence of the following registry value and alters its default behaviour if found:•HKLM\Software\Citrix\personal vDisk\Config\EnableUserProfileRedirection (REG_DWORD:1)
• If value is set to 1 then Both “profile streaming” and “delete cached profiles on logoff” settings are disabled
Architecture Changes
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HKLM\Software\Citrix\personal vDisk\Config
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• Out of the box support for XML based ADMX as well as legacy ADM templates files•Previously customers had to use “ADMX migrator” to convert from ADM to ADMX
• Advantages are numerous and include•Language neutrality through use of ADML files•New Central Store within SYSVOL directory used for replication•Co-existence with ADM template files
Group Policy enhancement
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• The list of registry entries, files, and folders that are included in and excluded from Profile management processing has been revised to support some newer, commonly used applications
• E.G. Google Chrome, Windows Live, Microsoft Outlook
Simplified default inclusions and exclusions
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File Inclusion/Exclusion Changes - At a Glance…
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Registry Inclusion/Exclusion Changes - At a Glance…
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• Pm v4.1 will be released as part of the Ibiza Zip but will not be integrated into the main Installer
• RTW build 4.1.0.18 released
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Profile management (UPM) Integration - Notes
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• eDocs (INTERNAL)•http://edocssand.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/user-profile-manager-sou/upm-wrapper-kib.html
• Pm mindtouch engineering KB
• http://mindtouch.eng.citrite.net/Releases/Ibiza/User_profile_management
• Build location (INTERNAL)
• http://chplanb.eng.citrite.net/planbin/upm/ibiza/base
Resources - NDA
Q&A
• Support List/Forum• #User Profile Manager-Technical• http://
forums.citrix.com/category.jspa?categoryID=163
• WW Readiness SMEs• [email protected] (EMEA)
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