Solutions For Virtual Desktops
Enabling administrators to enforce policy, define personalization settings and manage user profile data across thousands of virtual desktops
Desktop virtualization enables hosting of individual desktops inside virtual machines running in a data center. Users access the desktops remotely from a PC or a thin client. By running desktops within a data center, organizations have central control of operating systems and applications.
Successful desktop virtualization reduces the high cost of ownership and security risks of physical PCs, enables a tangible reduction in desktop management through standardization and optimizes the storage and infrastructure required.
These benefits can only be realized if the user accepts their environment - users will accept nothing less than the physical PC experience they have been used to. User environment management enables organizations to realize these benefits.
user environment management – a best practice approach
User environment management personalizes standardized corporate desktops by treating user information as a separate layer of the desktop. This layer is applied to the desktop as and when needed and is accessible in any environment - physical or virtual. User data is abstracted from the desktop, managed independently and used to personalize a standard desktop on-demand.
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Migrating Users To Virtual Desktops
Migration to virtual desktops opens up opportunities for desktop standardization, thus reducing management overhead. However, moving the user from a fully personalized, familiar PC to a standardized virtual desktop is a challenge. With user environment management, user data within the physical PC is decoupled and moved to a central store. The user can then be moved to a standardized virtual desktop. When the user accesses this standard desktop, user data is dynamically applied, recreating the PC environment. Personalization changes are persisted between virtual desktop sessions ensuring the user always has a familiar, personal experience
Personalizing Standardized Desktops
Desktop standardization reduces management costs and minimizes storage requirements. However standardized desktops are impersonal to a user and are therefore subject to low user adoption. User environment management takes a standardized desktop and applies all aspects of the user to that desktop when the user accesses it. Such aspects of the user not only include personal preferences, such as desktop look and feel, but also company-defined settings such as drive mappings, default printer and application access. This Policy and Personalization data is used in combination to turn a standard desktop into a personal, compliant, managed and accepted user environment.
Dynamic Desktop Assembly
Applications can be streamed or published into virtual desktops as required, enabling operating system and applications to managed separately and assembled to form a desktop when required. User environment management participates in this assembly process by applying user data as the desktop is created. This ensures the user receives a PC experience despite their desktop being ‘constructed’ using various delivery mechanisms and technologies. Such mechanisms include published, streamed, locally installed applications as well as provisioned operating systems.
