User Environment Manager Administrator’s Guide ® VMware User Environment Manager V E R S I O N 8 . 7 .0 You can find the most up-to-date technical documentation on the VMware Web site at: http://www.vmware.com/support/ The VMware Web site also provides the latest product updates. Copyright © 2015 VMware, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright and trademark information. VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 www.vmware.com User Environment Manager Contents 1 Welcome ............................................................................................ 9 1.1 VMware User Environment Manager ................................................ 10 1.1.1 Application Configuration Management ....................................... 10 1.1.2 User Environment settings ........................................................ 10 1.1.3 Personalization ........................................................................ 11 1.1.4 Application Migration ................................................................ 11 1.1.5 Dynamic Configuration ............................................................. 11 2 Planning your deployment ............................................................... 12 2.1 VMware User Environment Manager terminology ............................... 12 2.2 User profile scenario considerations ................................................. 13 2.2.1 Mandatory profiles ................................................................... 13 2.2.2 Roaming profiles ...................................................................... 13 2.2.3 Local profiles ........................................................................... 15 2.2.4 Folder redirection .................................................................... 15 2.3 Infrastructure requirements ............................................................ 16 2.4 System requirements..................................................................... 17 2.5 User Environment Manager registry access requirements ................... 17 2.6 User Environment Manager licensing requirements ............................ 18 2.7 Overview of User Environment Manager implementation .................... 18 3 Installing and configuring User Environment Manager components 19 3.1 Manual installation ........................................................................ 20 3.2 Unattended installation .................................................................. 21 3.3 Uninstalling User Environment Manager ........................................... 22 3.4 VMware User Environment Manager Group Policy configuration ........... 23 3.4.1 Creating the VMware UEM Group Policy Object ............................ 23 3.4.2 User Environment Manager GPO Reference ................................. 24 3.5 FlexEngine logon / logoff script configuration .................................... 30 3.5.1 FlexEngine logon script ............................................................. 30 3.5.2 FlexEngine logoff script ............................................................ 31 3.5.3 Example GPO .......................................................................... 32 3.6 User Environment Manager Management Console configuration .......... 33 3.6.1 Initial configuration .................................................................. 33 3.6.2 Further configuration ............................................................... 34 Page 3 User Environment Manager 3.6.3 Easy Start ............................................................................... 35 4 Personalization ................................................................................ 36 4.1 Main user interface elements .......................................................... 36 4.1.1 Ribbon buttons ........................................................................ 36 4.1.2 Tree view ............................................................................... 37 4.1.3 Context menu options .............................................................. 37 4.1.4 Importing a Flex config file ....................................................... 38 4.1.5 Exporting a Flex config file ........................................................ 39 4.1.6 Retiring vs Deleting Flex config files ........................................... 39 4.1.7 Disabling Flex config files .......................................................... 40 4.2 Config File Creation wizard ............................................................. 41 4.2.1 Creating a custom config file ..................................................... 41 4.2.2 Using a Windows Common Setting ............................................. 41 4.2.3 Using an Application Template ................................................... 42 4.3 Import / Export tab ....................................................................... 43 4.3.1 Import / Export editor fundamentals .......................................... 44 4.3.2 Expanding selected Windows Common Settings and Application Templates .......................................................................................... 48 4.3.3 Removing selected Windows Common Settings ........................... 48 4.3.4 Changing selected Application Templates .................................... 48 4.4 Profile Cleanup tab ........................................................................ 49 4.4.1 Profile Cleanup editor ............................................................... 49 4.4.2 Converting Import / Export settings ........................................... 50 4.5 Predefined Settings tab .................................................................. 51 4.5.1 Working with predefined settings ............................................... 52 4.5.2 Specifying predefined settings ................................................... 53 4.5.3 Modifying predefined settings .................................................... 54 4.5.4 Multiple predefined settings ...................................................... 54 4.5.5 Placeholders ............................................................................ 54 4.6 Backups tab ................................................................................. 56 4.7 DirectFlex tab ............................................................................... 56 4.7.1 DirectFlex introduction ............................................................. 56 4.7.2 Configuring applications for DirectFlex ........................................ 57 4.7.3 DirectFlex imports and exports .................................................. 59 4.8 Advanced tab................................................................................ 59 Page 4 User Environment Manager 4.8.1 Config File Processing ............................................................... 59 4.8.2 Skip Large Files or Old Files ...................................................... 60 4.8.3 OS-specific Settings ................................................................. 60 4.9 Conditions tab .............................................................................. 60 4.10 User Environment tab ................................................................. 61 4.10.1 Conditions ............................................................................ 62 4.10.2 Drive Mapping ...................................................................... 62 4.10.3 Files and Folders ................................................................... 63 4.10.4 Printer Mapping .................................................................... 63 4.10.5 Registry Settings .................................................................. 64 4.10.6 Import Task / Export Task ..................................................... 64 4.11 Information tab .......................................................................... 65 4.12 App-V 4.x tab ............................................................................ 65 5 User Environment ............................................................................ 66 5.1 Ribbon buttons ............................................................................. 66 5.2 Tree view ..................................................................................... 67 5.3 User environment settings list ......................................................... 67 5.4 General configuration .................................................................... 67 5.4.1 Name, label, and tag ................................................................ 67 5.4.2 Use 32-bit “Program Files” on 64-bit systems .............................. 68 5.4.3 Conditions .............................................................................. 68 5.4.4 Comments .............................................................................. 68 5.4.5 Editing conditions for multiple settings ....................................... 69 5.4.6 Importing settings ................................................................... 69 5.4.7 Exporting settings .................................................................... 69 5.5 ADMX-based Settings .................................................................... 70 5.5.1 Managing ADMX Templates ....................................................... 70 5.5.2 Creating an ADMX-based Settings definition ................................ 71 5.5.3 Applying ADMX-based Settings .................................................. 73 5.6 Drive Mapping .............................................................................