Not anywhere where it says User Environment Management, also UEM's inside. Simon Townsend takes the four techniques "Profile Management", "User Environment Virtualization", "User Management Persona" and "Group Policy and Logo scripts" under the microscope, which are often used for UEM be sure but not suitable without restriction.
There are many techniques that promise improved desktop environment for users. Figuring out which of them actually keep this promise, is difficult. Many are also of the opinion that UEM merely a "Windows profile management" is and know the real benefits of a comprehensive user administration not.
First and foremost, UEM contributes to the optimization of user satisfaction. But this is not just for wallpapers or desktop icons, but rather to provide an improved working environment, the maximum productivity without compromising on cost, security or control permits. UEM simplified at the proper implementation of innovation, promotes the success of desktop projects, fixes annoying desktop problems, thereby reducing the capital and operating costs.
In order to decide which of the many UEM solutions best suited, it is important to understand how these solutions really work and which environments they are designed. We see here four techniques more closely, often referred to as a User Environment Management platform. We also examine their functions and deficits.
Profile management
Pure Profile management techniques such as Citrix User Profile Management or VMware View Persona Management to address the problems associated with roaming profiles, such as profiles bloated, corrupted profiles and extremely long logon times, and insulate this one. Contact to a certain degree of the user's personal settings to virtual desktops. However, they are not designed for enterprise-wide scalable, platform-independent use as UEM solution.
The profile management also does not provide a solid security policy and does not provide ways to configure the performance data and application permissions the user efficiently. Moreover, lacking features such as context- and location-based controls, monitoring compliance with software license terms and the allocation of system resources granular permissions.
Environments that are based solely on profile management techniques are not capable of the same benefits and the same return on investment (ROI) as an end-to-end UEM solution. The reason for this is that Profile management techniques are scalable due to their structure not for various delivery mechanisms, computing platforms and locations. This creates more complexity, and increase the storage costs for the resulting dispersed data storage.
User Environment Virtualization (UE-V)
Microsoft's User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) is another technique that is often confused with UEM. It provides the personal settings of users using templates for shared applications on managed devices. As with Citrix UPM technology is a direct replacement for roaming profiles and the most effective in an environment with a single operating system and a single platform used. You may also be suitable for migrations, in which all users are migrated to a new operating system. However, the prerequisite for this is that any old operating systems like XP are used that not reset the user on previous platforms is required, or a version of the previous operating system must be maintained for running old applications.
However, UE-V comes clearly to its limits, if companies can take when migrating no downtime in the purchase or use a mixed environment of different operating systems that must be managed. Also for the effective support of very large environments that need to be migrated in several stages, UE-V is not suitable. Environments where might roll back the migration for certain user groups might be required, can be supported adequately with UE-V functions also.
Other key factors in the consideration of a roaming profile replacement are the management and scalability of profile management. While UE-V good kicks in the data center and PowerShell supports, maintains a more comprehensive solution several hundred thousand desktops that are spread across multiple locations, and offers an extensive administrative level.
An end-to-end UEM solution ensures an accelerated value creation and enables organizations to be able to afford a rapid IT support, users can work more productively and more satisfied. With UE-V, however, the subject’s contextual guidelines and authorization and license management are completely omitted. It replaces only the roaming profiles.
User Persona Management (UPM)
The term "User Persona Management" (UPM) includes techniques that offer an on roaming profiles beyond, more active management of user profiles. Although these techniques typically support user profile management and to some extent even user personalization and user-monitoring and -Auditing, they have typically had neither a real ApplicationAccessControl have yet reliable application deployment and resource management functions. UPM supports very effective smaller environments where users perform a limited number of applications and not have to rely on roaming profiles.
Larger enterprises that use multiple platforms simultaneously, rely heavily on roaming profiles and management must guarantee the portability of users between different workstations, encounter with UPM soon reach their limits. Because of this limited features UPM is unable to map the capabilities of a true end-to-end UEM solution and help enterprises to maximally efficient desktop environment.
Group Policy and logon scripts
Native Microsoft tools such as Group Policy and Group Policy settings provide appropriate functionality for managing user environment and computers. They enable reliable management of policies and settings, for example, for drive mappings, printer and shortcuts. This approach proved successful especially in smaller environments where the administration is limited to a small group of people. With a large number of users who use different devices and operating systems, the management of Group Policy is, however, very cumbersome and scripts can cause undesirable performance or logon delays.
Comprehensive UEM solutions mastering complex Group Policy and logon scripts, by reference to these leaner so that they are loaded much faster and can be provided as required within the desktop session of conditions and usage contexts. This long logon times are avoided and user satisfaction increases.
End-to-end UEM: the only true solution
End-to-end UEM solutions should include the complete management of the user's desktop environment and always ensuring a consistently productive, flexible and secure user environment across all physical or virtual Windows desktop environments. This gives companies the added value of reduced total cost of ownership with increasing satisfaction and user productivity. Whether it is a mixed environment with both physical and virtual desktops, or a combination of multiple devices, locations or delivery mechanisms, helps an end-to-end UEM of IT, on any device, in any operating system and any application a consistent, to create a personalized user environment.
This increases user satisfaction, reduced capital and operating costs and generates an unrivaled return on investment (ROI). The solution ensures the success of desktop projects, provides easy access to new technologies, eliminates annoying desktop problems and contributes to a maximized user productivity.
The end-to-end UEM significantly improved not only user satisfaction, but also affects the overall business is very positive.
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