General question. FSLogix vs others. If others, i....
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General question. FSLogix vs others. If others, i.e., AppSense (Ivanti) or ProfileUnity were free. Would you still go with FSLogix? Also, anyone here migrated from one of these to FSLogix because FSLogix was a better solution or simply due to costs?
j
FSLogix versus Ivanti is normally complexity versus simplicity (and naturally cost, now that MS own FSLogix). Ivanti is very much hands-on, time-consuming. FSLogix just grabs everything, but then you have the overheads in storage, etc. It is very much horses for courses. Even if Ivanti were free you'd need to pay someone to maintain it
k
If it were free, I'd probably take Ivanti Environment Manager. If you focus on what is most like-for-like between that and FSLogix/others, you'd likely only use the Windows Settings Groups feature of Personalization Server. For the reasons @James Rankin mentioned, ignore for now Application Groups (complicated filesystem virtualization via application hooks) and the Policy engine (also complicated but loads of goodies in there for future fun when you're ready to tinker.)
j
I tend to stick with solution builtin options unless there is a reason/need. I do like what Liquidware is doing and would be my next choice.
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Well as you guys know I have used and deployed all of these for customers but that was a couple years ago so I am not sure how all these products evolved and what the current state is. I guess my main potential use case is to provide a seamless experience on multiple different devices like physical laptops, thin clients and hosted desktops. For that FSLogix is a no-go as we all know.
j
If you want totally seamless then Ivanti is what you want. But do the users want it? A percentage of roaming settings is quite often enough. The last ten per cent of seamless is very hard and not many people notice it
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Well FSLogix will not do with physical laptops especially when offline. Then we have apps, what FlexApp does and others (CloudPaging, Liquit, etc). The goal is to have as much as possible seamlessly (i.e., user pulls app from internal AppStore and it is pushed to all his devices so no matter what he uses to login it is all there, apps and settings)
j
Hit me up with a DM about apps, I'm at a party at the minute but I have some cool ideas I have been working on
c
Will do!