Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager Reviews & Insights

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We use DEM as part of our Omnissa Horizon Non-Persistent VDI Desktop Deployment. It is a critical part of giving our users that feeling of a static desktop that they keep going back to. This is an absolute requirement if you are running Horizon Desktops. When designing your VDSI Environment, it is extremely important to look at end user experience... and DEM elevates that.

This is absolutely critical for non-persistent VDI desktops to give the illusion that users are always going back to the same desktop when, in reality, they keep logging back into a brand new VDI Desktop. It is a simple design and is very robust. You could use it in limited ways for a persistent VDI or Physical PC for automating folder redirection and deploying settings.