Windows User Profiles…The Mysteries Untold – Part 1

Happy New Year Everyone…This is my first blog post of 2017. Woo Hoo!!  As always, I love to blog about questions from the field.  This one came from a customer testing their new Virtual Desktop Infrustrure (VDI) on Nutanix and had 1 out of 50 users profiles be corrupt. He asked why did this happen and how can I avoid this in the future. Now, I would say that 1 corrupt profile out of 50 is fine during a test, but let understand why it happens. This topic is especially important to understand because directly relates to VDI and your end-user experience in VDI.

Windows User Profiles

What is a Windows User Profile? It not just your desktop 🙂

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Windows 2012 Feature…ODX….What is it?

Here is a little piece of tech that not many people know about….Offloaded data transfers…it brings fast file transfers on your storage devices. This feature will only work on storage devices with SPC4 and SBC3 specification implementation.  Also, this feature is for Windows 8 or Windows 2012 Server or above.

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