See, I told you this has been a cool year! Hang on, what about File Director? We have also been busy developing a raft of features here too… File Director File Delta Synchronizationīy changing the method used by File Director to copy file deltas to be asynchronous, we have ensured that files are now transferred in a more robust, scalable and efficient way. If you’ve been watching closely, you’ll have seen a new pattern in 2018 of us introducing new configurations and configuration tools through the User Workspace Manager community site, so we can get early feedback before they make their way into the product.
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Roaming Windows 10 File Type Associations.Resizing of the Start Menu is now personalized across sessions.Removing Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps on a per-user basis.Throughout 2018, we have introduced cool new features such as: Windows 10įinally, for Environment Manager and everyone’s favourite topic of conversation, we have added more and more support for configuring the Windows 10 desktop. It is now possible to not only deploy the EM agent via Endpoint Manager (EPM), but you can also save and retrieve EM configurations to and from the EPM server. Ivanti’s vision of Unified IT requires more and more links between our product lines and so we also introduced integration between EM and Ivanti Endpoint Manager (formerly Landesk Management Suite). Talking of integration, we weren’t done with just integrating with our Automation product. The work in 2018 was only the first step of this integration, allowing all Ivanti customers to benefit from both sets of solutions, with more work planned to integrate and enhance these products for our 2019 releases.
This integration brings together the power of Ivanti Automation and the Environment Manager Policy engine, allowing tasks to be triggered from within an EM configuration. Ivanti Automation, formerly from RES, allows, as the name suggests, the automation and management of routine and complex IT tasks.
This extension to the Cache Roaming functionality further enhances the Office 365 user experience. Never wanting to stand still, in Environment Manager 2018.3 we allowed for users who want to work across multiple concurrent virtual sessions and still have access to their cache. With more and more enterprises adopting Office 365, this functionality is key to providing a great user experience in scenarios such as Outlook Cached Exchanged Mode, for the OneDrive agent, or for applications such as Microsoft Teams. This feature uses EM Policy actions to attach a container to the user’s virtual desktop or session during logon that persists application caches between sessions for increased performance and a consistent experience. Without doubt the biggest talking point of 2018 for Environment Manager (EM) has been Cache Roaming. In terms of product enhancements in 2018, what did we achieve? Let’s review… Environment Manager Cache Roaming Of course, we took the challenge to the next level and ran our sprint with four scrum teams in different locations and time zones! You’ll hear more about the results of this effort throughout 2019. The recommendation is to run a sprint with one Engineering scrum team who are co-located. This is an approach developed at Google Ventures by Jake Knapp and is used to help product groups tackle big problems in five days. Of note is the Design Sprint we ran recently looking at how we can make UWM easier to onboard, adopt and gain immediate value.
This group has taken some big challenges head-on this year and our approach to those challenges has resulted in the outcomes we delivered to solve our customers’ problems. There were remarkable achievements from the Engineers, Testers, UX, Support and Product Managers alike who make up the UWM product group. The more I reflected, the more I had to ask myself did we achieve all of this in one year? Amazingly, the answer is yes! 2018 really was a phenomenal year for everyone involved in the Ivanti UWM product group. Whilst watching the recent BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards – an annual event where the UK voted for its favourite sportsperson of 2018, in which the England football manager received an award in recognition of the national football (soccer) side winning a penalty shoot-out for the first time in 6 attempts over 20 years! – I began to reminisce on the equally startling progress we have made in Ivanti User Workspace Manager (UWM) during 2018.
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