June 2013 Profile management v5.0 Excalibur - XenDesktop 7 Mick Glover Worldwide Support Readiness

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute What’s New in 5.0? Highlights Integrated Install Citrix HDX Policy Engine integration Studio/Director Integration New Policies Updated filter driver (No longer leverages NTFS change journal)

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute XenDesktop 7 - Integration Citrix Policy Engine integration  Additional choice for configuration: HDX Policies Integrated Install with VDA (Desktop and Server OS)  UPM component installed by default with VDA installer Director Integration  Reset feature for Microsoft Roaming and Citrix profiles  Non-destructive - renames existing profile, creates new and copies some data back  Data Kept: Documents, Favorites, Cookies, Desktop, Pictures, Music, Video PoSH module for UPM: v7  New functionality…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute XenDesktop 7 - Capabilities New Policies  Define excluded AD groups  Profile Not Available Policy (deny or temp profile logon) Auto-Config - detect env and configure automatically Delete caches profiles immediately (delayed delete) Read only profiles (mandatory) - use the template profile as a mandatory

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute XenDesktop 7 - Architecture Changes No Longer leverages NTFS change journal - UPM uses the filter driver (upmjit.sys) now  MFT file no longer used (NTFS activity cache file) UserProfileManager_.cache Benefit?  Reduce Support Calls  Should improve logon times  In particular, first logons with provisioned desktops where cache file had to be created

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Ftlmc.exe UPMJIT.sys Load Order & Altitude

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Integrated Install Profile management v5.0 Part of VDA Installation Windows Service  UserProfileManager.exe  Start-up Automatically  Runs under local system a/c Service remains Idle until enabled  Configured through Policies\.ini file VDA switch to disable install?  None available  Required for Director (data and profile resets)

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute UserProfileManager.exe Start-up Type & Recovery

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Legacy Configuration Options Still relevant with v5.0 ADM\ADMX Templates Local.INI file

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Legacy Configuration Options UPMPolicyDefaults_all.ini Located in installation directory Used for POC\Workgroups

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Group Policy Template files ADM\ADMX Available on Installation media  \x64\ProfileManagement\ ADM_Templates\en  \x86\ProfileManagement\ ADM_Templates\en

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Citrix HDX Policy Engine integration Profile management v5.0 All Pm settings can be configured through Citrix HDX Policies (Citrix Studio or AD)  Complete mirror of ADM template settings…

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Studio Integration\Basic Configuration Profile management v5.0 Profile management node  Create Profile Definitions Basic Configuration/Simply deployments ONLY Basic settings exposed through UI  Profile Type\Storage  Profile Redirection Hidden in Excalibur, being revised for Merlin….

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Profile Definitions Profile management v5.0 Multiple definitions can be created and linked to Delivery Groups… Hidden in Excalibur, being revised for Merlin…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Policy Definition for Delivery Groups Hidden in Excalibur, being revised for Merlin

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Linking profile Definitions to Delivery Groups Profile management v5.0 Edit Delivery Group  Select existing or create new profile definition… Hidden in Excalibur, being revised for Merlin….

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Get-UserProfileManagerServiceAddedCapability Creating Profile Definitions (Merlin) $properties = Get-UserProfileManagerServiceAddedCapability This command creates a list of all the properties that can be set through Set- UserProfileDefinition and stores them in $properties

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Advanced Configuration Profile management v5.0 Choose One of either:  Citrix HDX Policies through Citrix Studio or AD  Group Policy ADM/ADMX Template Mixing and Matching can lead to unexpected results…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Workgroup or POC configuration Profile management v5.0 Local.INI file UPMPolicyDefaults_all.ini  Settings revert to corresponding group policy setting if set to "not configured“ in.ini file Found under C:\Program Files\Citrix\User Profile Manager

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Director Integration Profile management v5.0 Reset Functionality  Microsoft Roaming and Citrix profiles Recreates corrupt profile  Rename existing  Create new  Copy important data (Documents, Favorites, Cookies, Desktop, Pictures, Music, Video)

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute New HDX Policy Excluded AD Groups Disabled by default If enabled, Pm 5.x will exclude members of the defined user groups…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute New HDX Policy Log off user if a problem is encountered Disabled by default  Problems encountered at logon then Temporary profile is provided If enabled, Pm 5.x displays and error and logs the user off..

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute New HDX Policy Delay before deleting cached profiles Disabled by default Dependent on “Delete locally cached profiles on logoff” policy setting  Must be enabled

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute New HDX Policy Template profile used as mandatory profile Disabled by default  Template profile is not used Enable to use Citrix mandatory profiles Dependency on the Path to the template profile policy setting…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute New HDX Policy Disable Automatic Configuration Disabled by default  Pm 5.x examines its environment and configures itself accordingly with some best practice settings Disable for troubleshooting purposes…

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Profile management v5.0 Auto Configuration Behavior E = Enabled; D = Disabled

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute New PowerShell cmdlets Profile management v5.0 Excalibur Usage  Test-UserProfileShare  Repair-UserProfileShare  Get-UserProfilePath Merlin Usage  Get-UserProfileManagerServiceAddedCapability  New-UserProfileConfiguration  Set-UserProfileDefinition  Get-UserProfileDefinition  New-UserProfileShare  Remove-UserProfileShare

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Technical Notes UPM v5 Available for SA customers on XA 6.x and XD 5.x platforms  Support for Win7 and later OS only  2003 and XP platforms must continue on 4.x (currently 4.1.2) Profile Management node to be hidden in Citrix Studio for the Excalibur RTW release  Being revised for Merlin (2014)

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Known Issues\Gotchas Profile management v Post Shipped Bugs at present… OneBug  te=reports%2Flist&reportid= te=reports%2Flist&reportid=18946

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Post-Shipped Bugs P2 - Address Quickly

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Post-Shipped Bugs P3 - Must be Addressed

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Post-Shipped Bugs P4 - Address Sometime

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Post-Shipped Bugs P9 - Enhancements

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Post-Shipped Bugs P9 - Enhancements

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Post-Shipped Bugs Currently being reviewed

Personal vDisk (PvD) v

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Compatibility PvD driver re-architecture (released in 5.6.5/7) Copy on write provides better app compatibility Management MCS Inventory automation Dynamic PvD Space Allocation (5.6.5/7) CtxPvDDiag (diagnostic tool) and better log files Rules changes support in existing VMs Performance PvD run time performance and speed

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Citrix Personal vDisk Diagnostic Tool CtxPvDDiag.exe Personal vDisk\bin directory Generates registry hive reports Collects PvD and System log files and information…  Msinfo  Event logs  PvDLogs ……

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Citrix Personal vDisk Diagnostic Tool Help Function  CtxPvDDiag /?

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Citrix Personal vDisk Diagnostic Tool CtxPvDDiag /ra

Resources & Q/A

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Approved and Post Shipped OneBug list&reportid=18946http://onebug.citrite.net/tmtrack/tmtrack.dll?ReportPage&Template=reports%2F list&reportid=18946

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Resources Citrix Documentation  Support Forums/White papers 

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Resources Microsoft Managing Group Policy ADMX Files Step-by-Step Guide  Security Recommendations for Roaming User Profiles Shared Folders 

© 2013 Citrix | Confidential – Do Not Distribute Engineering Documents Mindtouch User profile management  UPM driver change notification  IVER_FILE_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION.DOCX IVER_FILE_CHANGE_NOTIFICATION.DOCX UPM Jasper Concept Specification  ONCEPT_SPECIFICATION.DOCX ONCEPT_SPECIFICATION.DOCX UPM Mandatory profiles  n.docx n.docx

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