User Environment Management
Cost-effective services helping organisations increase productivity whilst reducing help desk demand
Effective IT system management made simple
User Environment management is the governance of the desktop environment for employees across your business. This allows businesses to set access levels to the applications needed for individuals to fulfil their roles.
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How Total Can Help
Total provides the end users with a dynamic Microsoft desktop environment based on their role, device and location. This cost-effective service helps to increase productivity whilst reducing help desk workload.
Also, you can provide access to a network printer based on a user's location or create application shortcuts on their desktops based on their user ID. Total Provide two key services (FSlogix and Ivanti) which can be compared in the sections below.
How Total can help you with
User Environment Management
FSLogix was acquired by Microsoft and provides solutions for common Office 365 and modern collaboration tool challenges. Mailboxes, Teams and OneDrive are stored within the cloud, meaning that the data is now no longer close to the desktop. Traditionally file shares and mailboxes have all lived within the same organisational boundary as the desktop or application being used, resulting in high bandwidth and low latency connectivity. By moving and consuming cloud-based technologies you can benefit from the flexibility and easy administration. However, content is further away from the desktops than previously and the connectivity conditions cannot be guaranteed. FSlogix fixes this problem by caching data locally to the desktops providing faster results and a better user experience.
Ivanti User Workspace Manager (UWM) software utilises a client-server model for personalisation functionality, whilst the application of user policies is achieved from configuration files held locally on each endpoint. All servers are based on IIS and utilize a Microsoft SQL database for data storage. Agents run on the endpoints, which read local configuration files and enforce the policies held within them. Auditing functions may be enabled by logging into the local machine or to a central database.
This forms the central hub of any UWM installation and is responsible for the deployment of UWM agents and configurations, and for the centralised collation and reporting of events raised by UWM software.
This provides user configurations usually contained in login scripts and group policy items. Configuration actions are processed in a parallel fashion as opposed to conventional solutions to drive efficiency.
This manages the installation of applications by individual users through various methods e.g ‘Trusted Ownership’ and digital signature hashing, all of which benefit the security and the performance of the user.
Total work closely with out partners and vendors to ensure that the end of life products are properly managed and recycled in the correct way. So you can rest assured that your devices are being managed correctly and recycled in compliance with the ISO 14001.
Free User Environment Assessment
Let’s begin with a discovery call to discuss your IT & business goals. This will enable us to understand where you are now, where you want to get to and what needs to be done to get you there.
In the initial discovery call, we will cover:
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Mark Cotterel
Head of IT,
Endemol
Having Total on board as a partner with the experience of having done this before, and who knew what they were doing, was a key point for me.
Everything has gone as smoothly as we could have imagined possible. The collaborative approach, in which we rely on Total technically and learn from them, has been a match made in heaven.
We are picky with our suppliers, but Total has done a great job. Our day-to-day contact really understands the production demands of Endemol – it feels like he’s got his own key to the building.
With Total, we can just offload a task, then they will know when to question us, what to ask, and when to push us. They’re responsive and get back to us quickly, and work with us over the weekend when it’s needed.
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