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Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.9 out of 10
Score
7.9 out of 10

Reviews

5 Reviews

Controlling the user profile.

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have been using a VDI infrastructure for nearly 10 years now.

The challenge has always been the struggle between a golden image, the different needs by users and how to deliver a proper desktop profile on that in the most cost effective way.

VMWare Dynamic Environment Manager is a tool that delivers on the user profile part and is free to use with a VMWare Horizon license.

In our scenario we used the tool to complement our VMWare Horizon VDI deployment.

Pros

  • Combining different Microsoft settings in a single pane.
  • Straightforward tool
  • Privilege elevation for apps

Cons

  • You cannot prefill on a per user basis
  • Configuration can become quitte big

Likelihood to Recommend

VMWare Dynamic environment manager is best suited in a situation where you have a dedicated admin to configure all the complex settings/scenario's for the user experience. Where you have a limited ammount of user profiles and the tooling is less favorable when you want your users to have alot of personal influence on the settings.

Vetted Review
Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager
2 years of experience

VMware Dynamic Environment Manager is excellent and easy to configure

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMware VMware Dynamic Environment Manager was great addition of VMware Horizon which we establish when Covid pandemic started. As any other companies, we also had users with laptops and desktops, but everyone located in office spaces and as was impossible to purchase such a big number of laptop for desktop users, we needed to establish solution like VMware Horizon and give users opportunity to connect to work resources.

Pros

  • VMware Horizon
  • User Profiles settings
  • User Profiles files
  • User Profiles redirection

Cons

  • Simplicity
  • Configuration documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware Dynamic Environment Manager is excellent addition of VMware products and is very well suited for User profiles (settings, files, configuration) redirection when users connect to dedicated or shared hosts. It also offers good set of features for Windows OS configuration and customization for multiple users. Place for improvement, simplicity for configuration.

Vetted Review
Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager
2 years of experience

VMware User Environment Manager -- Keep your user's experience at its best.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Used for the inside staff of our organization. Very helpful with deploying new machines to users when the refresh cycle comes up. All the settings that the user has set on their PC get transferred over to their new machine when the time comes, and there is very little involvement from the IT staff.

Pros

  • Managing personal settings for users
  • Ability to keep settings while switching to different PCs.
  • Helpful when setting up customized settings per user group. Set it once and propagate it to multiple users

Cons

  • Takes a bit of time to get the hang of.
  • If you are setting it up yourself, there will probably be a few calls to support to get the kinks of your environment worked out
  • Works well with standard applications, but is a bit cumbersome in setting up in-house built applications.

Likelihood to Recommend

VMware User Environment Manager is very well suited for environments such as call center PCs and where users log on to different PCs (floating PCs). All their settings come over, and no matter what computer they log into they have everything that they customized from their last session. Very helpful when setting up floating pools with VMware Horizon.

Vetted Review
Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager
6 years of experience

VMware User Environment Manager: The all-in-one for Virtual Employees

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

VMware User Environment Manager is being used by remote employees in an effort to streamline the interaction between multiple programs. As for other departments, I am sure they may use some form of this program. The problem this program addresses is the ability for remote users to implement a variety of programs on a virtual desktop. This also assists the virtual employee by allowing multiple programs to be used on a desktop outside of a real-time desktop that may be used in brick and mortar work environments.

Pros

  • The VMware User Environment Manager helps place all tools on a virtual desktop, creating ease of access for employees.
  • The use of VMware User Environment Manager also helps with addressing problems within a remote environment by limiting those issues to the desktop that it creates. This also helps when issues arise that may need to be addressed for a particular program, and allows us to focus on a problem without affecting the real-time desktop.
  • Allowing to log in to different servers quickly is also a benefit. Time is of the essence for many employees, and the ability for employees to take 2 minutes or so to log in to the VMware User Environment Manager helps each employee have additional time to do other tasks.

Cons

  • VMware User Environment Manager, for some reason, is unable to run Avaya on its platform where I work. This may need to be addressed, as it is somewhat of an issue when launching tools as a remote employee, and we must keep Avaya off the VMware User Environment Manager. This is actually a big problem as we have to switch back and forth between environments to see and utilize Avaya versus the tools on the VMware User Environment Manager.
  • In addition to the Avaya issue, there seem to be some issues with up-time. I am not sure if this is solely due to the VMware User Environment Manager, but it does seem that the longer you are on and logged in to the VMware User Environment Manager, issues start occurring.
  • Log in time aside, there also seems to be a compatibility issue with the VMware User Environment Manager. We have also run into some problems running older applications on the virtual desktop.

Likelihood to Recommend

For the remote or virtual agent working outside a brick and mortar, this application has many benefits. From the remote desktop, the ability to run multiple programs at any given time, to the minimal launch-time, the VMware User Environment Manager is a perfect choice that may just need adjusting. The VMware User Environment Manager may be less appropriate in a brick and mortar setting where security, functionality, access to client programs and other items may be different, thus necessitating the use of a different all-in-one management program.