File Services

For a consistent visual display of personal data associated with a specific user and/or a customized desktop environment irrespective to which TS/RDSH or VDI machine user is connecting, Parallels recommends the use of FSLogix Profile Container as a complete profile management solution with Parallels RAS.

• To administer FSLogix Profile Container, you must be signed in as a member of the Domain Administrators security group, the Enterprise Administrators security group, or the Group Policy Creator Owners security group.

• Client computers must be running Windows 7 and newer, or Windows Server 2008 R2 and newer.

• Client computers must be joined to the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) that you are managing.

• A file server must be available to host roaming user profiles or User Profile Disks.

• If the file share uses DFS Namespaces, the DFS folders (links) must have a single target to prevent users from making conflicting edits on different servers.

• If the file share uses DFS Replication to replicate the contents with another server, users must be able to access only the source server to prevent users from making conflicting edits on different servers.

• If the file share is clustered, disable continuous availability on the file share to avoid performance issues.

For more information about deploying FSLogix Profile Container, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/fslogix/configure-profile-container-tutorial.

For the information about migrating to FSLogix Profile Container, visit https://www.christiaanbrinkhoff.com/2020/02/14/youtube-how-to-migrate-from-upd-to-fslogix-profile-container-profiles-to-windows-virtual-desktop/.

To reach high availability for FSLogix Profile Container on-premises, Parallels recommends using multiple SMB locations with a single VHD path and Distributed File System Namespace in front of one or many SMB locations (note that only one SMB location can be active at one time) as active-passive HA. DFSR is applicable to NTFS based SMB locations but for ReFS, a third party synchronization tool is required, such as https://bvckup2.com/kb/beyond-robocopy.

For FSLogix Profile Container on Microsoft Azure, multiple storage solutions are available with the recommended ones being Azure Files or Azure NetApp Files. Additional best practices apply such as setting up the storage solution in the same datacenter location and excluding the VHD(X) files for Profile Container from antivirus scanning. For more information about FSLogix Profile Container and Azure deployment options, visit https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/example-scenario/wvd/windows-virtual-desktop-fslogix

More information on DFS and DFSR can be found at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj127250.aspx.