VMware, Inc.
USER PROFILE MIGRATION TO VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE

Abstract:

A method of migrating a user profile to a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) system includes enumerating applications installed at an endpoint of a user, retrieving a list of application settings files, determining file and registry locations of user profile data relating to the applications installed at the endpoint from the application settings files, and retrieving the user profile data from the determined file and registry locations and storing the user profile data in a shared storage. When a user logs into a virtual desktop of the VDI system, the user profile data is retrieved from the shared storage and imported into file and registry locations specified by the application settings files of applications that are installed in the virtual desktop.