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Ivanti Environment Manager
Formerly AppSense

Overview

What is Ivanti Environment Manager?

Ivanti Environment Manager (formerly AppSense, acquired by LANDESK in 2016, which is now part of Ivanti) is an on-demand personalization tool for desktops, used to apply contextual policy on‑demand. Aims to provide fast logons, roaming users with robust, always-personalized desktops, smooth…

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Appsense made Sense for our VDI deployment.

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 20, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We deploy VDI for our remote workers. All of our published desktops are non persistent to reduce consumption of resources. The master image is static, all registry changes for...
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Josh Justic
Executive - Information Technology
President, Engineering Architect for Virtualization and Computing Systems.
NTCG, Inc.
Ivanti Environment Manager9 years of experience

AppSense great for Citrix

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 8, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use AppSense to capture personalization settings for Citrix users and fat clients. Also, it's used for policy enforcement.
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Mark Borenstein
Analyst - Information Technology
Infrastructure Analyst
Beazley
Ivanti Environment Manager6 years of experience

Great features, but buggy software and mediocre support

Rating: 5 out of 10
February 2, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
AppSense is used on all company owned Windows computers in our network, across all locations. We use it for software personalization and for doing some custom actions that wou...
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Engineer
Ivanti Environment Manager1 year of experience

AppSensitivity

Rating: 6 out of 10
November 6, 2015
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
A department of Emerson uses AppSense to monitor and more granularly control the CPU and memory consumption of applications on a per session basis. They also use it to deliver...
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Tim Miltenberger
Manager - Information Technology
Transition Engineering Manager
Emerson
Ivanti Environment Manager2 years of experience
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Product Details

What is Ivanti Environment Manager?

Ivanti Environment Manager navigates complex and mixed Windows desktop infrastructures to deliver a consistent and portable user environment while ensuring a smooth migration to Windows 10 / 11 or cloud-hosted desktops. It helps to achieve faster logon speeds and a personalized user experience, delivered more quickly and easily by IT.

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Appsense made Sense for our VDI deployment.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 20, 2021
JJ
Josh Justic
President, Engineering Architect for Virtualization and Computing Systems.
NTCG, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ivanti Environment Manager
9 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We deploy VDI for our remote workers. All of our published desktops are non persistent to reduce consumption of resources. The master image is static, all registry changes for a user profile are applied and exported via AppSense. AppSense allows us to give a unique user experience while saving a large expenditure on storage costs.
Pros
  • Provides full user registry customization.
  • Centralizes management of user settings
  • Can replace group policy.
  • Fast response time for a new user session.
Cons
  • High learning curve to deploy
Likelihood to Recommend
[AppSense is] very well suited for VDI or published applications.
Most Important Features
  • Centralized management
  • Profile registry settings
  • Global configuration.
Return on Investment
  • Saved a lot on storage costs
  • Improved the user experience.
Alternatives Considered
Fast deployment, very customizable. Improved user logon times.

AppSense great for Citrix

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 08, 2016
MB
Mark Borenstein
Infrastructure Analyst
Beazley (Insurance, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ivanti Environment Manager
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use AppSense to capture personalization settings for Citrix users and fat clients. Also, it's used for policy enforcement.
Pros
  • Capturing application settings per user.
  • Office policy settings.
  • Granular control of settings per application.
Cons
  • Better control at the pre-network login stages.
Likelihood to Recommend
AppSense is great for Citrix environments but can be troublesome for fat client users who are road warriors.
Return on Investment
  • It makes replacing hardware very quick and effective when supporting remote staff.
Alternatives Considered
Much more robust in allowing for scripted routines per application.
Other Software Used
Users and Roles
900
Finance, Underwriting, Operations, IT
Support Headcount Required
6
Desktop, Server, and Networking skills. Basic understanding of Group Policies.
Business Processes Supported
  • Roaming profiles - user settings following user logins
  • Advanced Policy administration
  • Device replacement made easy
Innovative Uses
  • Tailor different versions of browser settings as the upgrades keep coming.
  • Single policy configuration for the whole company - globally.
Future Planned Uses
  • Apply polices to mobile devices
Likelihood to Renew
9
It has been a very affective tool for our company.
Products Replaced
Yes
Microsoft Group Policy engine. Not granular enough.
Key Differentiators
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
The products ability to handle just about any situation.
Evaluation Lessons Learned
I would select a longer evaluation period in order to encompass more device types and scenarios.
Implementation Details / Implementation Partner
  • Implemented in-house
Implementation Phases
Yes
Test, UAT, and then production rollout.
Change Management Lessons
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Controlled change keeps the issues to a minimum.
Implementation Issues
  • Timing of when we deployed changes to laptop users.
Implementation Rating
9
Test, test, test.
Premium Support
No
Support Rating
8
Always had a great experience dealing with the engineers.
Bug Resolution
Yes
Yes
Exceptional Examples of Ivanti Environment Manager Support
Several times we were completely stuck on a failed policy. Their support quickly resolved our issue by analyzing current logs.
Easy Tasks
  • Creating polices.
  • Adding nodes and using logic.
  • Creating personalization groups.
Difficult Tasks
  • Nesting logic
Mobile Interface Availability and Impressions
Yes, but I don't use it
Usability
9
It was relatively easy to configure.

AppSensitivity

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
November 06, 2015
TM
Tim Miltenberger
Transition Engineering Manager
Emerson (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ivanti Environment Manager
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
A department of Emerson uses AppSense to monitor and more granularly control the CPU and memory consumption of applications on a per session basis. They also use it to deliver a consistent profile to the users logging in.
Pros
  • Profile Management
  • Policy Management
  • Application Performance Management
Cons
  • Image Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Most general situations can be managed from within Citrix. AppSense is needed only in complex situations that require more granular control of the environment.
Return on Investment
  • By capping the CPU shares accessible by a rogue application, AppSense allowed us to continue to provide what the customers required while adjustments to the application were performed.

Great features, but buggy software and mediocre support

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
February 02, 2016
Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Ivanti Environment Manager
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
AppSense is used on all company owned Windows computers in our network, across all locations. We use it for software personalization and for doing some custom actions that would otherwise typically be done via logon script or group policy. For example, we use it to map printers for users based on their location and/or AD group membership. We also use Application Manager to automatically run some legacy software with admin rights. This happens transparently without the user having admin rights and without seeing a UAC prompt and is a very useful feature for any application that requires admin rights to run. It also allows users to self-install certain pre-approved applications while not giving them rights to install any random software.
Pros
  • Application Manager - automatic elevation of certain software to run with admin rights, transparent to users IF you set it all up properly in advance. Once you have this configured, it can be very beneficial.
  • Environment Manager - custom actions based on detected conditions. For example, mapping one set of network drives once a user connects to a certain network, and a different set of network drives when they connect to a different network. And automatically remove the network drives when the user disconnects from the network. Do X, Y, and Z if a certain process starts or stops. If process A starts, automatically start process B.
Cons
  • It's buggy in general. I have seen a lot of weird problems caused by AppSense. Corrupt user profiles, random crashes, etc.
  • If/Else/ElseIf statements can be confusing to build, especially when nesting several due to the way they are displayed.
  • Support is not great.
Likelihood to Recommend
AppSense does solve a lot of problems and can do some cool things. However, I think competing products may do the same job without some of the bugs and issues I have seen with AppSense. The automatic/transparent "run as Administrator" feature is very slick when set up properly and makes dealing with poorly coded legacy applications very easy. The flexibility it gives you with all of the stuff it can do is great. Take actions X, Y, and Z at logon based on these conditions, etc.
Return on Investment
  • Faster/easier to deploy legacy applications that require admin rights without granting full admin rights to users.
  • Fast and flexible deployment of things like new/default printers, settings, etc based on simple or elaborate conditions.
Alternatives Considered
  • RES Software
The decision to use AppSense was not mine. If I had to choose a product today, I would at least want to evaluate the alternative from RES Software - from what I have read/heard it sounds like the better choice as far as reliability, support, and lack of bugs. I have not personally used it yet though.
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