Entrigue Systems is the creator of a really cool profile tool called ProfileUnity; an enterprise-level user profile and configuration management solution for VDI and traditional Windows desktops.
ProfileUnity offers some specific Benefits for VDI Environments. A key benefit to running a VDI environment is that users can be provisioned a pristine machine, free of conflicts and bugs, at every logon. This reduces TCO through lower support costs and translates to satisfied users. To provide this benefit, an organization’s VDI must be configured to offer non-persistent desktops at logon. One major drawback of this is that user data is lost from one logon to the next. Until now, this has left organizations with little option than to only offer persistent VMs to users at logon. With persistent logons, numerous benefits to running VDI are lost. ProfileUnity completely solves this dilemma by making user profiles portable across non-persistent VMs.
ProfileUnity Pro adds powerful automated desktop configuration and deployment integrity features such as the ability to create application shortcuts, map drives, install printers, and auto-configure Outlook MAPI profiles. The solution can also modify environment variables, adjust Internet proxy settings, configure RDP connections, and further customize client machines during user logon. ProfileUnity Pro includes the following enterprise class capabilities:
• Profile Migration – Speed transition and adoption of VDI by easily migrating user profiles to VMware View, XenDesktop and leverage your existing investment
• Profile Portability – Consistent user experience, regardless of platform, i.e. VDI, laptop, traditional desktop or Windows OS version
• Integration - Fully compatible with virtual profile solutions from VMware and Citrix and adds enterprise features such as profile migration (including data files) and powerful administrative control options
• Profile Provisioning – Create new MAPI profiles, map drives and printers, create RDP and application shortcuts, create self documented PDF and text reports of user profile configurations for compliance and disaster recovery and more
Liquidware Labs continues to bring solutions to the market that enables the swift and elegant migration from legacy desktop platforms to virtual desktops. Integration and release of new products based on the core Entrigue offerings will be announced and demonstrated at VMworld 2009 on booth 1438K in the New Innovator Pavilion.
