RES Workspace Manager Express
RES Workspace Manager Express Introduces Personalised User Workspaces for Everyone
Free Workspace Manager 2011 Express enables IT to replace roaming profiles, eliminate login scripts and introduce context-aware desktops
Workspace Manager Express begins the transformation of an organisation’s desktop infrastructure into centrally managed user workspaces through a guided step-by-step approach. RES Workspace Manager Express provides the foundation for:
- Simplified Management: Express introduces centralised user workspaces and empowers IT to eliminate login scripts and simplify the complexity of managing users. It empowers administrators to make changes predictable through an easy-to-use console.
- Context-Aware Desktops: Administrators can begin to provision basic resources such as printers, drives and application settings, so they follow users and adapt as their context changes.
- Enhanced User Experience: Express decreases the time to deliver desktop services, introduces desired user state management and improves the automation of existing desktop management infrastructures.
While the free Express edition provides fundamental workspace management capabilities, many organisations will benefit from more comprehensive features available in the licensed editions of RES Workspace Manager. Using licensed editions of Workspace Manager, organisations can deliver context-aware security, enhance compliance efforts through auditing, tracking and reporting, and provide support for mobile workers through folder synchronisation and application management.
While the free Express edition provides fundamental workspace management capabilities, many organisations will benefit from more comprehensive features available in the licensed editions of RES Workspace Manager. Using licensed editions of Workspace Manager, organisations can deliver context-aware security, enhance compliance efforts through auditing, tracking and reporting, and provide support for mobile workers through folder synchronisation and application management.
“Managing users is becoming increasingly complex as IT departments are challenged to enable their workforce more than ever while creating minimal disruption from new technologies and devices,” said Andrew Morgan, technical architect, LeasePlan Infrastructure Services. “RES Workspace Manager provides us with greater control and management while delivering our end users a dynamic desktop environment personalised based on their preferences and their context. The availability of Workspace Manager Express presents a great opportunity for organisations to take the first steps in beginning to manage their users more effectively. Once they are ready for more control and granular management, RES Software has a complete portfolio of proven solutions to meet those advanced needs.”
“Today’s IT administrators have a number of challenges across a broad range of infrastructures. From Windows 7 migrations, or the pressures coming from users in the consumerisation of IT movement, to lowering their costs, organisations must re-evaluate how they are managing their users in these new working styles,” said Andrew McMurray, principal technology solution professional, Microsoft Corporation. “Workspace Manager Express helps IT provide fundamental workspace management capabilities that simplify how they manage users, and introduces context-aware capabilities to desktops that will prove critical as users become more mobile.”
RES Dynamic Desktop Studio, which includes capabilities from Workspace Manager and RES Automation Manager, improves the Windows experience with simplified management and context-aware services supported by a highly automated infrastructure fabric, and a user-provisioned self-service catalog. Dynamic Desktop Studio builds on Workspace Manager Express by adding the full Composition and Personalisation, Advanced Administration, and Security and Performance Modules of Workspace Manager. These capabilities are coupled with the task automation, resource provisioning and service orchestration modules of RES Automation Manager to provide organisations with a robust offering full control and management of their environment.
“Workspace Manager is a critical element in helping an organisation create a standard, personalised workspace across hybrid desktop environments. Workspace Manager Express is a first step in creating a centrally managed user workspace that allows organisations to implement dynamic desktop infrastructures with context-aware workspace management, while allowing them to grow into a more comprehensive offering in the future,” said Bob Janssen, CTO and co-founder of RES Software. “It’s our vision that every user and IT administrator benefit from workspace management, and the availability of Express allows any organisation to experience the transformation from traditional desktop management to managed workspaces.”
RES Workspace Manager Express is available as a free download and offers no limitations on the number of users within an organisation. Access to RES Software support is available on a per-incident basis.
My thoughts about RES Workspace Manager Express
I have been waiting very long time for this to happen that RES have pr 19 October 2011 made RES Workspace Manager Express free for unlimited users. This is freaking awesome so all companies can use RES Workspace Manager to handle profiles for free until they off course need the cool and advanced features which is included in the versions that cost money. The cool part is that you just apply a license and Vupti then you have access to the features, there is no need for installing a dif. product this is great.
How to initialize the user profile space and get and overview of your existing desktop and have them managed it with RES Workspace Manager Express
Migrate existing desktops into managed workspaces with minimal impact to users through a step-by-step guided approach. Supported by the #FREE build on MS Azure platform Baseline Desktop Analyzer, Express can use live data collected from their environment to start designing user workspaces.
Then implement RES Workspace Manager Express and apply a demo license to identify you need you can go up in version or down to the express it have never been so easy to find out which product and version you need. I really like this way RES Software have made it easy for IT departments to implement their product and by time change versions with their software…
Sources
Download RES Workspace Manager Express *FREE here
http://www.ressoftware.com/products/wm-express
Download RES Workspace Manager Express brochure
http://www.ressoftware.com/news/media-resources/logos-collateral/res-express-brochure
Dan
| #
Hi Thomas,
Some features in your screenshots (eg create appointments and contacts) seem to be missing from the iOS version of @WorkMail that got released in April, do you know if these features are still coming in a future release? The Android client is far more functional by comparison.
Regards
Dan
Christian Eilskov
| #
You can see the DHCP options here:
http://www.wyse.com/kb and search for 21501
You can transfer a image using Wyse Device Manager(WDM), the same goes for smaller updates like new ICA client and so.
Thomas Poppelgaard
| #
Thank you Barry =)
The deep compression codec for Citrix XenDesktop HDX 3D Pro will be intergrated for Citrix XenApp in Excalibur so there is a big difference with bandwidth consumption. This means that XenApp in Excalibur will be the best platform for user density and works great over WAN with high latency as HDX 3D Pro have been known to deliver for several years. Yes i know of cases with WAN optimization, I will gather these and share them.
Best regards
Thomas
Barry Schiffer
| #
Hi Thomas,
Nice work! Awesome to see these results on XenApp! Is there any noticable difference between XA 6.5 and Excalibur that you are aware of? Do you have experience with WAN Optimization and how this helps to reduce bandwidth further?
Kind regards,
Barry
Thomas Poppelgaard
| #
Hi Matti
i use 311.35
get the latest from http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us