View Persona Management
Let's start with a little bit about the background and history behind View Persona Management. View Persona Management was originally a technology product called Virtual Profiles and was acquired by VMware from RTO Software in 2010. It was first introduced with View 5.0, and it allows you to configure user profiles so that they dynamically synchronize with a remote profile repository that is located on a file server in the data center. Its purpose is to manage user profiles within a virtualized desktop environment.
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More information about the acquisition can be found at http://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmware-rto-acquisition-faq.pdf .
VMware View Persona Management was first introduced with View 5.0, and it allows you to configure user profiles that dynamically synchronize with a remote profile repository located on a file server in the data center.
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