The Virtual Profiles 2.0 (beta) has a cool new feature we call 'Live Sync'. This feature increases the value of Microsoft App-V when using remote sessions or roaming profiles. An issue arises when App-V users run a sequenced application in two sessions simultaneously - say perhaps - VDI or Terminal Services and a physical desktop.
Here's an example: if you sequence an Office application and change the application environment like toolbars, the next time you login, you will see the same environment that you modified. This is because App-V saves each user's settings in .pkg files. These files are saved to the User Data Directory when you close the application. What is stored in the .pkg files depends upon what application or applications you sequenced. So if you sequenced just Microsoft Word then only Winword's settings would be stored in the .pkg file. And, if you sequenced all of Office, then all of the changes to Word, Excel, Powerpoint and so on are stored in the .pkg file. If a user is logged on to two systems at once and made a change to Word's toolbars in Session 1 and Excel's toolbars in session 2 whichever session made the change last would persist -- overwriting the other session's changes.
Virtual Profiles takes steps to overcome this situation by monitoring the .pkg files locally and on the central profile store. In the event that one session updates a .pkg file it is automatically sync'd to the other session.
Unlimited Scalability
What's also cool about this is Virtual Profiles does this without harming scalability. Since Virtual Profiles requires no back-end infrastructure (no databases or web servers) it scales to literally hundreds of thousands of end-users or sessions without requiring additional resources.
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Virtual Profiles is real easy to test in your environment. Since it requires no changes to your central profile store, you can easily put Virtual Profiles on one server or in one VDI session. Users can log on to the session with Virtual Profiles installed to test the features and then go back to the production system. No conversions are necessary.
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