Profile Management

AppSense profile management enables administrators to provide a consistent, yet contextual experience for end users by delivering the security and performance benefits offered by mandatory profiles along with the flexibility offered by roaming profiles.

A standard desktop environment can be delivered and maintained for all users ensuring enforced protection from unauthorized changes and an additional level of user personalization can be offered, allowing a user's own changes to roam with them across multiple computer sessions. This has the added benefit of minimizing network bandwidth consumption, by saving and loading only relevant areas of a user's profile rather than transferring the whole profile across the network.

AppSense Solutions For:

• User Environment Management
  • Profile Management
  • System Protection
  • Quality Of Service
• Terminal Server License Management

The Benefits Of Profile Management

• Provides a flexible and robust solution to roaming profile issues
• Removes the potential for profile corruption
• Enables consistent quality of service to the user regardless of the environment delivery mechanism
• Reduces logon times dramatically
• Manages profile settings across distributed server silos
• Simple migration from existing profiles

How It Works

The “Function Rich” Profile Management Solution
AppSense delivers a comprehensive profile management solution, Environment Manager, which can be used to resolve roaming profile issues that are often encountered within the enterprise.

Used in conjunction with a mandatory profile, AppSense Environment Manager may be optimally configured to save out different portions of the user profile at logoff, such as registry settings and files, and restore them when the user next logs on. This ensures minimized network bandwidth consumption, saving and loading relevant areas of a user profile, rather than transferring the whole profile across the network. Furthermore, user profile corruption becomes a thing of the past since there is no longer file copy contention during the logoff process.

Existing profile implementations can be seamlessly migrated to use the Environment Manager profile management solution, which also offers the added benefit of being able to centrally manage and maintain the lockdown of application and operating system content and self healing of critical files, processes, services and registry keys.

• Only specific settings are copied at log-on/log-off times, therefore keeping file sizes down to a minimum and maintaining faster log-on times
• Only the required settings for the particular silo are copied over ensuring no configuration issues
• AppSense Environment Manager does not use roaming profile functions. In the unlikely event of a failure it applies purely to a specific setting and not to the whole profile

This solution provides an ideal method of managing user profiles more effectively. By rarely requiring any intervention by the user or administrator, ensuring minimum logon times, minimizing profile sizes, aiding stability and reducing any loss of service for the user, AppSense Environment Manager can significantly improve quality of service to the end user.