Agent Server Groups
A Server Agent Group is a logical grouping of Terminal Servers having a common role or purpose (figure 3). A logical
group of servers is commonly referred to as “silo”. Exportable registry sub-keys and shell folders can be marked by
MetaProfiles-IT as global or group-specific. For example, if
Microsoft Office is only
installed on a handful of
Terminal Servers in the farm
(i.e., ts1, ts2, and ts3), then
it makes sense to only import
and export the registry sub-key
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office
when users access those servers.
In this case, these servers
should be logically grouped
together into a single Server
Agent Group (i.e., ASG1), and
the “Microsoft Office” registry
sub-key should be marked
“group-specific”, that is,
specific to ASG1.
On the other hand, if Adobe
Acrobat Reader is installed on
all the Terminal Servers, then
it makes sense to always import
and export the registry sub-key
HKCU\Software\Adobe\Acrobat
Reader. In this case, the “Adobe
Acrobat Reader” registry key is
marked “global”.
Figure 4 illustrates how
group-specific and global data
are managed using the vWorkspace
Management Console. Figure
5 demonstrates the details of
group-specific and global data
subsets.
Figure 3 – An Agent Server Group can be configured in a few easy steps.
Figure 4 – Logon process: when a user logs on, the Agent Service requests his/her previously exported data from
the Storage Server. It then decompresses the data and merges the sub-keys and folders into the mandatory profile.
Figure 5 – Data subsets can be configured in a few easy steps.
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