Ivanti User Workspace Manager
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What is Ivanti User Workspace Manager
Ivanti User Workspace Manager is a Windows user environment management (UEM) product used to control and personalize user sessions across VDI, Remote Desktop Services, and physical endpoints. It applies policies for user settings, application access, and context-based configuration (for example, based on device, location, or network) to provide a consistent workspace experience. It is typically used by IT teams running virtual desktops who need centralized control over user profiles and session behavior without rebuilding base images for every change.
Strong user environment control
The product focuses on managing user settings, policies, and workspace behavior independently of the underlying desktop image. This helps standardize the end-user experience across pooled/non-persistent virtual desktops and shared RDS hosts. It supports context-aware rules so IT can vary mappings, printers, and settings based on conditions such as device type or network.
Optimized for non-persistent VDI
User Workspace Manager is designed for scenarios where desktops are frequently reset, making it suitable for pooled VDI and task-worker environments. By externalizing user personalization and configuration, it reduces the need to maintain many gold images for different user groups. This can simplify operational changes when compared with approaches that rely primarily on image customization.
Centralized policy administration
It provides a central console and policy model to manage workspace settings across many users and machines. This supports consistent enforcement and easier auditing of configuration intent across VDI/RDS farms. Centralized administration can reduce manual per-host configuration drift in larger deployments.
Not a DaaS platform
User Workspace Manager does not provide the core DaaS/VDI control plane for brokering sessions, provisioning virtual desktops, or managing cloud capacity. Organizations still need a separate VDI/DaaS platform and supporting infrastructure to deliver desktops. As a result, it is an additional component rather than an end-to-end desktop delivery service.
Windows-centric scope
The product’s primary focus is Windows session and workspace management, which can limit applicability for organizations with significant non-Windows virtual desktop requirements. Cross-platform workspace delivery and device management typically require additional tools. This can increase architectural complexity in mixed-OS environments.
Deployment and tuning overhead
Implementing user environment management often requires careful design of policies, exclusions, and performance tuning to avoid logon delays or configuration conflicts. Enterprises may need dedicated expertise to model user groups, contexts, and application behaviors correctly. Ongoing changes (new apps, new locations, new conditions) can require continuous policy maintenance.
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Ivanti, Inc.
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2017
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