Horizon View 5.3.1
Windows 7 64-bit
After updating our parent images Persona Management would no longer work. Windows would freeze up when you attempted to do several functions such as changing the background, creating a shortcut (sometimes), or logging off. For profiles that already had a persona folder on the share, I didn't notice the issue.
Long story short we called VMware support and tested a lot of things. Eventually it came down uninstalling software until the culprit was found. Finally we determined the newly installed Windows Essentials 2012 was the cause. The only piece of it we were installing was Movie Maker and photo software. I tried just disabling the Windows Live Sign-In Assistance service and even tried deleting the service, but the problems persisted.
Just an FYI in case anybody else runs into this. We haven't yet pursued a resolution as it isn't a critical piece of software for us. That may change in the future depending on user requests.
-Ryan