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Tag: user_profile_manager
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Profiles: To cache or not to cache, that is the question…
Once upon a time, it was all so simple. Six questions, with yes or no answers, and you could just set up UPM by following the docs, and performing a simple if-X-then-set-Y-thus sequence. But then came PVD and VDI-in-a-Box, and people started running provisioned XenApp on XenServer, and goodness-knows-what-else, and suddenly you had to think quite hard about some aspects of UPM configuration. Not because you ...
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Did I get it right? – the Profile Management Configuration Check Tool (UPMConfigCheck)
Introduction One of the most eye-opening moments for me as Development Manager of UPM was a meeting I attended of the UK Citrix Users Group a couple of years ago. I wasn’t there to promote UPM; I had gone with my team to listen and learn what Citrix users were doing with profiles. But in the pub, after the meeting, and with a pint of Fuller’s in ...
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Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right Part 3!
I previously wrote two blog articles on properly configuring Citrix Profile Management and Folder Redirection and architecting it so that it scales for large environments. If you have not yet read the previous two articles, then I would suggest you read them first. You can find them at the links below: http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/11/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right/ http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/08/05/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right-part-2/ In this third and final installment of this series, I will provide some guidelines on ...
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Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right Part 2!
I previously wrote a blog article on properly configuring Citrix Profile Management and Folder Redirection. If you have not yet read it, then I would suggest you read it first. All of the articles in this series apply to non-persistent virtual desktops or XenApp published desktops. You can find Part 1 at the link below: http://blogs.citrix.com/2012/02/11/citrix-profile-management-and-vdi-doing-it-right/ After I wrote the first article I received a lot of ...
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Migrating UPM Profiles – Tips and tricks
UPM has been around for nearly 4 years now, and seems to have been well adopted, to the point where we’re starting to see some support calls along the lines of “I’ve outgrown my original user store and I need to migrate my users to a more scalable store, without losing my data. How?” There are some obvious solutions around using tools like robocopy and Profile ...
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Citrix Profile Management and VDI – Doing it Right!
For anyone that has ever worked with XenApp or XenDesktop you know that user profiles can be one of the most difficult things to get right. This was one of the driving forces behind Citrix including a profile management solution as a standard component of all editions of XenDesktop. I am not going to go into the details of the various types of profile strategies nor ...
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Profile Manager – Does profile inconsistency still exist?
On a customer site visit a year or so back, I had a nice tour of the companies first level support tool (singular). A simple user interface, web based management tool built on top of MFCom and apparently proven very successful. On the first panel they look up the user name. Then there were two buttons on the screen. Force close of all XenApp sessions. Obliterate the roaming ...
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Case Study – XD upgrade from UPM 2.x to 3.x
While I've blogged on the mechanics of upgrading from UPM 2.x to UPM 3.x, I've not yet addressed the other aspects of planning and configuration. This came up recently in-house, where we'd decided to upgrade an XD4 farm to XD5. The original request came in as: "We are creating a new CPM environment for XD5 Pooled in Showcase. We would like to take the contents of the ...
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How do you migrate from Profile Management 2.x to 3.x?
Easy. Just follow the instructions at http://support.citrix.com/proddocs/topic/user-profile-manager-kib/upm-upgrade-den.html and http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX126659;. However, those instructions describe the ideal scenario, and assumes you have 2.1.1 already installed and you want to get to 3.2.2 (the latest version, as I write this blog), and that you've got a convenient maintenance window that you can use. What do you do if those assumptions don't apply to you? Maybe you're on 2.0 or 2.1. Maybe ...