Preserving User Preferences

[kegwell]

I'm a bit confused on keeping user settings after a Desktop Refresh, Recomposition or even reboot. I am using linked clones with the default 2GB data disk, for testing purposes. My data disk is seperate from my OS disk, as recommended, but I can't seem to get user preferences to stick, such as wallpaper, icon placement ,etc. I noticed that the My Documents, email, etc. is not mapped to the data disk, rather the C: drive. Did I missing something during the provisioning process? Shouldnt these folders be mapped to the users data disk? Any help would be appeciated.

[kegwell]

One other tidbit...does the Linked Clone I am deploying need to be on a domain? As of right now, the desktop VM is a member of a workgroup and not actually on the domain yet.

[randyf25]

As long as you configured the persistent pool to use clones and create the user disk the user profiles should be automatically mapped to the User Disk. I did not have to do anything special for that to happen.

I would suggest creating a new pool to see if it behaves differently or if you missed a setting somewhere.