User Profile Manager

In a virtualized world, where users can get to their desktops and applications from practically any location or device, you need to leverage “user profile” technology to ensure users get a consistent experience every time. When users log on to their virtual desktop or launch a virtual application, they want to see everything just as they left it, with their own personal settings, shortcuts, toolbars, templates, desktop wallpapers and favorites. The more complex and varied the user access scenarios, the more challenging it becomes for IT to manage these user profiles.

User Profile Manager, available today as a Tech Preview, provides an easy, reliable, high-performance way to manage user personalization settings in Windows environments. Based on customer-proven technology Citrix acquired from Sepago, User Profile Manager requires minimal administration, support and infrastructure, while providing users with fast logon and logout. Log into My Citrix to Download the User Profile Manager Tech Preview today to see how it can enhance* XenApp, XenDesktop and Provisioning Server for Desktops solutions with the following benefits:

Manage Profile Bloat
User Profile Manager enables administrators to exclude (and include) certain files and folders in order to prevent extraneous settings from needlessly being copied with the profile.  For example, some applications may create folders and files that account for tens or hundreds of megabytes, which are really not required.  By excluding these files it minimizes the extra data being stored in a the profile.  Alternatively, you could elect to only include specific files and folders thus keeping to a minimum the amount of profile data being managed within the user’s profile.

Robust Profiles
User Profile Manager automatically detects and stores all modified registration settings, and can be configured to capture any kind of file modification within the profile. It also prevents the unintentional overwriting of user profiles by using some built-in logic to determine which data should be kept. Inclusion and exclusion lists let you adapt the solution to your specific environment.

Easy to Implement and Simple to Maintain
User Profile Manager includes features which enable administrators to automatically migrate existing user settings and choose at a granular level which profile information to keep or discard. It runs as a system service, and does not require any additional servers, services, or databases or changes to logon scripts. The user data can be stored on the home drive, or on a central network share. You can configure User Profile Manager using group policies, so you can leverage existing Windows management tools.

Log into My Citrix to Download the User Profile Manager Tech Preview now and use the community Support Forum to share your feedback.

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The User Profile Manager Tech Preview is an early look at a new technology that can be used with XenApp, XenDesktop and Provisioning Server for Desktops. It is not a shipping product or feature of a product, and  support is provided only through the online discussion forums.