We all know that it is trendy to use a profile solution to rid Windows of some shortcomings of roaming profiles. And quite a number of you have looked at Citrix Profile Management (also known as User Profile Manager). In its current incarnation, UPM is configured using a group policy specifying the profile path. But similar to utilizing the “Set path for TS Roaming Profiles” for Terminal Services (soon to be Remote Desktop Services), this introduces the limitation that all users logging on to a server receive the same profile path – most most likely with some dynamically substituted components like environment variables or, in the case of UPM, fields from the user object in Active Directory.
Unfortunately, both solutions (UPM and “Set path for TS Roaming Profiles”) are inferior to managing profile paths in Active Directory user objects. The latter enables administrators to distribute users across several servers or use components representing an organisational affiliation. Wouldn’t it be neat to combine those to methods of maintaining profile paths?
Continue reading ‘The Combined Strength of Citrix Profile Management and the Active Directory Terminal Services Profile Path’
I am proud to announce the availability of the user profile whitepaper for Citrix User Profile Manager (UPM) 2.0. It has been a lot of new and updated content to reflect the changes in UPM 2.0 compared to the Tech Preview. Continue reading ‘User Profile Whitepaper for Citrix User Profile Manager 2.0′
I have recently had the chance to write an article for a German journal called LANline. The article focuses on user profile management and why modern approaches of application delivery create the need for a user profile management solution.
The article can be read either in the printed issue published in October 2008 or online. Continue reading ‘The Necessity of Managing User Profiles’
By now, you have probably read about sepago striking a deal with Citrix (see our press release as PDF as well as Doug’s and Thomas Kötzing’s article). Our product sepagoPROFILE is now owned by Citrix and released under the name of “User Profile Manager” or, short, UPM. Continue reading ‘Future Development of the User Profile Whitepaper’
The whitepaper about user profile management has been available for several months and has reached an astonishing number of downloads. Due to the evolving strategies for delivering applications as well as desktops, we decided to expand on the issue of evaluating user profile management solutions and the subtleties involved in this process. Continue reading ‘How to Choose a Profile Solution (Version 1.5 of the User Profile Whitepaper)’
As application delivery scenarios grow increasingly complex, user profile management becomes even more of an issue than in times of server-based computing.There is a whole market focussing on managing a user’s environment. One aspect of these efforts is to handle a user’s personal settings which sepagoPROFILE solely concentrates on. Continue reading ‘Whitepaper About User Profile Management’
