#1 most frequent
United States of America
49.1%27 installations of 55
What is Ivanti Environment Manager?
Ivanti Environment Manager (formerly AppSense, acquired by LANDESK in 2016, which is now part of Ivanti) is an on-demand personalization tool for desktops, used to apply contextual policy on‑demand.
Aims to provide fast logons, roaming users with robust, always-personalized desktops, smooth OS and physical-to-virtual migrations, and easy PC refreshes.
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Who Buys & Uses Ivanti Environment Manager
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
18.2%10 installations of 55
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.5%3 installations of 55
Appsense made Sense for our VDI deployment.
Pros
- Provides full user registry customization.
- Centralizes management of user settings
- Can replace group policy.
- Fast response time for a new user session.
Cons
- High learning curve to deploy
Most Important Features
- Centralized management
- Profile registry settings
- Global configuration.
Return on Investment
- Saved a lot on storage costs
- Improved the user experience.
Alternatives Considered
Citrix Profile Management
AppSense great for Citrix
Pros
- Capturing application settings per user.
- Office policy settings.
- Granular control of settings per application.
Cons
- Better control at the pre-network login stages.
Return on Investment
- It makes replacing hardware very quick and effective when supporting remote staff.
Other Software Used
Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Cisco ASA
Usability
AppSensitivity
Pros
- Profile Management
- Policy Management
- Application Performance Management
Cons
- Image Management
Return on Investment
- By capping the CPU shares accessible by a rogue application, AppSense allowed us to continue to provide what the customers required while adjustments to the application were performed.
Great features, but buggy software and mediocre support
Pros
- Application Manager - automatic elevation of certain software to run with admin rights, transparent to users IF you set it all up properly in advance. Once you have this configured, it can be very beneficial.
- Environment Manager - custom actions based on detected conditions. For example, mapping one set of network drives once a user connects to a certain network, and a different set of network drives when they connect to a different network. And automatically remove the network drives when the user disconnects from the network. Do X, Y, and Z if a certain process starts or stops. If process A starts, automatically start process B.
Cons
- It's buggy in general. I have seen a lot of weird problems caused by AppSense. Corrupt user profiles, random crashes, etc.
- If/Else/ElseIf statements can be confusing to build, especially when nesting several due to the way they are displayed.
- Support is not great.
Return on Investment
- Faster/easier to deploy legacy applications that require admin rights without granting full admin rights to users.
- Fast and flexible deployment of things like new/default printers, settings, etc based on simple or elaborate conditions.
