Smarter Groups – Workspace ONE Intelligence and Advanced Assignment Scoping for macOS Devices
The smart group functionality built into VMware Workspace ONE® UEM contains several types of assignment criteria that you can use when scoping the deployment of an application or configuration. These assignment criteria include organization groups, user groups, device platform or model, operating system versions, enrollment category, and others. However, what if you need to include some other assignment criteria to scope one of your...
VMware Advanced Monitoring for Horizon Powered by ControlUp
In a previous blog, I took a look at ControlUp and the ways VMware customers can purchase ControlUp licenses—to monitor Horizon environments—as add-ons to their Horizon licenses, directly from VMware. With ControlUp, Horizon customers can monitor their EUC environments in real time and proactively track the experiences of their end users. ControlUp’s guided troubleshooting and built-in actions can quickly remediate problems within...
Deploying Custom App Settings for On-Demand macOS Apps
With macOS and VMware Workspace ONE®, administrators have a lot of flexibility in precisely how native macOS applications are deployed and configured. Specific applications might use Privacy preference settings, require kernel extensions or system extensions, and require a custom settings profile for configuration. Administrators might choose to deploy certain apps automatically to assigned end-user devices or make them available...
Announcing The New Expert Talk: Community Series Show!
I’m happy to announce we are releasing a new show that we call Expert Talk: Community Series. In this show, we’ll dive deep into the minds of IT professionals from all around the world. We’ll learn what works, best practices and overall recipes for success in designing, deploying and managing VMware End-User Computing technology. This long-form show will be released as a video on YouTube and as a podcast so that you can tune-in...
The Evolution of VMware Horizon for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Deployments of Virtual Desktops and Applications
Today we announced the general availability of the latest major update to VMware Horizon with Horizon 8. Current events have accelerated the deployment and consumption of virtual desktops and applications across many industries adapting to remote work requirements. For example, some of our largest customers have over 200K users working from home on VMware Horizon, seamlessly accessing their desktops and applications on...
Activating Cloud-Based GPOs with Workspace ONE UEM
What are Cloud-Based GPOs? When taking advantage of Windows 10 modern management, you are likely to encounter challenges with policy management. Common challenges include: • Increasing user mobility deconstructing the traditional workspace. • Multiple management tools, creating policy conflicts. • Figuring out how to push policies to domain-joined, Azure-joined, or even workgroup devices. • Lack of feature parity between MDM profile...
