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The next step in virtualization; RTO Virtual Profiles (Streaming Profiles)

April 24, 2008

After you have configured RTO Virtual Profiles you’ll notice that your roaming profiles logons will be much faster. It’s actually quite hard to find out what made this speed improvement come about. When viewing the logs files you will find out what RTO Virtual Profiles actually does. I think it is best described as “streaming”. It streams the roaming profile to the local server/workstation. So as soon as you hit enter after entering your user name and password and your profile gets loaded, RTO Virtual Profiles kicks in. What basically happens is that RTO Virtual Profiles tricks Windows into thinking that the profile is loaded but the loading of the actual profile never really happens. It only streams down the bits that are needed. Since RTO Virtual Profiles installs a file system driver they intercept all calls made to profile. RTO Virtual Profiles checks to see if that file has already been streamed down and if not if will be streamed down immediately.

ThinComputing’s Michel Roth reviews RTO Virtual Profiles! Read what Michel has to say about this innovative productivity enhancer in “A First Look at RTO Virtual Profiles”.

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One Response to “The next step in virtualization; RTO Virtual Profiles (Streaming Profiles)”

  1. Steve Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    This solution does not even support Vista! I am trying to migrate my profiles and this is junk for doing that!

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