Persona management - few questions

[Najtsob]

I enabled persona management on few dedicated and floting pools and it looks promising but I have some questions left and I would appreciate if someone can answer me.

1) I created share named "personas" and inside this shared folder I can see folders for differend user personas (testUsers.V2, john.V2,...). Is it possible to access the content of this folders, because riht now I can't and I am administrator on the server where is this share.

2) How is it with storage consumption when using persona management ?

With dedicated desktops if user has 5GB of his data you need to provision a desktop with 5GB of UserDataDisk 😧 and that's it.

With persona management you need 5GB space on share and you need 5GB (worst case) or maybe less on each desktop that user migt connect to it ?

3) How to limit user to 5GB of user data when using persona management ?

Best regards, Primoz

[Najtsob]

For the first question, you can do that by using GPO Settings for Roaming User Profiles.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781862%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

How about other two questions ? Does anybody know how to do this ?

[Najtsob]

So nobody uses persona management ?

[whynotq]

Limiting the data used will be done from my point of view (no pun intended!) via user quota management on the file shares. You can probably do this via GPO too somewhere but personally i'd be looking to set a "soft" limit of say 4GB and a "Hard" limit of 5GB with warning messages enabled so the user knows their limit and the Admin knows when it's getting close.

[wktan · Accepted solution]

1.  Persona management works like Auto roaming profile in terms of permission of the folder.  It is purely lock down to only the owner can browse that folder.  However if you want to browse it you would need to gain ownership of the folder to do so.

2.  If you use userdata disk then you have to just locate 5GB of data for the user and it's about it.  Other than his data his profile settings are also stored in this disk.  If you are using Persona Management you do not need to create the UDD.  Why dedicated pool any reason?  The reason to go into Persona is to have the look and feel the same in terms of user's settings in regardless which desktop they are log on to.  Having said that which lead to using Floating Pool should be the way to go.

3. If you are using Persona and dump them on a file server.  Other than adding the role of the file server, add the Quota management in order to restrict the disk quota usage.

Use personal management as much as possible on a floating pool.  Dedicate pool seems not very useful unless you are implementing Local Mode.  Also with Local Mode, you would use UDD instead of Persona since Persona require network connection so that explain why Persona cannot work in Local Mode.

[Najtsob]

Thank you for the answer.

[tanwk]

No problem glad to help.  I learn through community and its only right to contribute back as well.