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$ soultec get solution/omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager -o yaml$ soultec get solution/omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager -o json$ soultec get solution/omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager -o toml$ soultec get solution/omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager -o xml$ python3 omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager.pyPS> ./omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager.ps1$ go run omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager.go$ node omnissa/horizon/dynamic-environment-manager.js

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What it is

body: | Dynamic Environment Manager captures user settings rather than user profiles. A roaming profile carries everything a person has ever touched; DEM carries only what an administrator has named: the Windows personalisation, and the settings of individual applications. That difference shows up in the logon time, because there is far less to load. - heading:

How it works

body: | The FlexEngine agent starts when someone signs in, imports the environment and personalisation settings, and then gets out of the way. Application settings are not part of that. They are loaded by DirectFlex at the moment the application is opened and written back when it is closed. At logoff FlexEngine writes the remaining Windows personalisation back to the archive. - heading:

What it needs

body: | No management server. It runs on files: SMB shares from a file server you already have, reachable on TCP 445, plus the agent on the desktops. Windows desktops, RDSH session hosts, fat clients and VDI all use the same mechanism, so it can also be used in an estate that is only partly virtual. - heading:

The two editions

body: | There are two: Standard and Enterprise. What Standard covers was sold as Persona Management before it was folded in. Two features are worth knowing by name whichever edition you land on. Self-Support lets a person restore their own application settings from a backup or reset them to default without opening a ticket, and the console can hide individual settings from that tool where that is not wanted. The Helpdesk Support Tool gives the service desk the same search plus the logs to investigate a profile problem. - heading:

What to watch

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How it works

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What it needs

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Solution · Omnissa

Dynamic Environment Manager DEM

formerly User Environment Manager

The vendor calls it: Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager

Carries the settings a user cares about instead of the whole profile, so there is less to load and signing in is faster.

Omnissa Platinum Partner

Topics Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Vendors Omnissa 1.99

02Services

06Posts

02Capabilities

315Corpus

photograph wantedA Horizon or Workspace ONE session in use: a virtual desktop on a real screen, or a thin client on a real desk

What it is

Dynamic Environment Manager captures user settings rather than user profiles. A roaming profile carries everything a person has ever touched; DEM carries only what an administrator has named: the Windows personalisation, and the settings of individual applications.

That difference shows up in the logon time, because there is far less to load.

How it works

The FlexEngine agent starts when someone signs in, imports the environment and personalisation settings, and then gets out of the way. Application settings are not part of that. They are loaded by DirectFlex at the moment the application is opened and written back when it is closed.

At logoff FlexEngine writes the remaining Windows personalisation back to the archive.

What it needs

No management server. It runs on files: SMB shares from a file server you already have, reachable on TCP 445, plus the agent on the desktops. Windows desktops, RDSH session hosts, fat clients and VDI all use the same mechanism, so it can also be used in an estate that is only partly virtual.

The two editions

There are two: Standard and Enterprise. What Standard covers was sold as Persona Management before it was folded in.

Two features are worth knowing by name whichever edition you land on. Self-Support lets a person restore their own application settings from a backup or reset them to default without opening a ticket, and the console can hide individual settings from that tool where that is not wanted. The Helpdesk Support Tool gives the service desk the same search plus the logs to investigate a profile problem.

What to watch

Before buying DEM for slow logons, find out how long a logon actually takes and where the time goes. The cause can also be an old login script.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed

Draft, not yet reviewed. We size the file share before the desktops. DEM writes small files often, and a share that was fine for departmental documents is not automatically fine for two thousand logons inside twenty minutes.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

soulTec reaches the highest Omnissa partner status

1 Apr 2025

We have reached Platinum, the highest partner status in the newly introduced Omnissa partner programme.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

An overview of Omnissa Horizon for Citrix customers

31 Jan 2025

A guide for Citrix administrators who want to understand how Horizon is put together, and how its components map onto a Citrix environment.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Leaving Citrix behind, with Omnissa Horizon and soulTec

24 Jan 2025

Wondering how to move off your existing Citrix environment without interrupting operations? More and more of our customers are looking at it because Citrix keeps getting more expensive.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Securing the Horizon connection – part 2

11 Dec 2024

Part 1 covered how locked.properties secures the connection between Horizon Connection Servers and clients, mainly through balancedHost. There are cases where that causes trouble.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

Unrecognized requests in the Horizon Console XML API log

14 Sep 2024

The Horizon Console dashboard shows a warning about unrecognized requests on the XML API protocol connection. Usually these have no direct effect on user sessions.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42

NVIDIA L40s: Horizon cannot provision desktop pools with vGPU profiles

17 Jul 2024

A customer recently bought several NVIDIA L40s cards to extend their Horizon environment. Provisioning failed for every desktop pool using an L40s vGPU profile.

Modern Workplace 1.69 Virtualization 1.42