VMware User Environment Manager (UEM)

The VMware UEM product is a new edition to the Horizon portfolio and was added when VMware acquired the Dutch company Immidio back in February 2015. Immidio was a software company that created products that were aimed at helping their consultants out in the field, with the core product being called Flex+.

UEM adds additional functionality above the standard Persona Management solution, also providing a central management console, and delivers personalization of the end user's virtual desktop machine as well as the ability to dynamically configure policies. It works across a number of environments such as virtual desktop machines and physical PCs, as well as cloud-based Windows desktop environments.

Note

To manage a virtual desktop machine with UEM, you will need to install the FlexEngine components onto the virtual desktop machine. Make sure you include this as part of your master image or parent VM.

There are five key use cases that UEM can be used with...