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Using The FPK In VDI Deployments |
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Thursday, 29 March 2007
by Michel Roth
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Scott Lowe has published an excellent article about when and how you can use the Flex Profile Kit in VDI environments: "Fortunately, a tool designed for multi-user environments such as Citrix and Terminal Services was able to save the day. That tool, the Flex Profile Kit (FPK), allows administrators to selectively save portions of a user’s profile to a simple file, which can then be reapplied at next logon. Using a configuration file and a small executable, we can define groups of settings that should be saved to a file. That file is stored on a central file share, and then copied back down and re-applied when the user next logs in again. Using this functionality, we can mimic the effect of a roaming profile without having to modify any user objects in Active Directory (and thus limiting the impact to hosted desktops only).
In the following sections I discuss some of the specific challenges we faced when using FPK for this project."
Read Scott's entire article here.
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