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James Rankin
01/30/2023, 9:35 PMI've run them together a lot. Config-wise, Ivanti is way ahead of WEM
James Rankin
01/30/2023, 9:36 PMApplication Control and Performance Manager are way better as well than the equivalent WEM parts
James Rankin
01/30/2023, 9:36 PMBut FSLogix is only comparable to the Personalization Server aspect of Ivanti EM. There's a helluva lot more power in the Ivanti tooling and it depends how much they are leveraging it
James Rankin
01/30/2023, 9:37 PMUnpicking an EM implementation and replacing what they've done with it can be challenging
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John Gallacher
01/30/2023, 9:54 PMThanks @James Rankin great insight :) I have a session tomorrow to get a better understanding of what they’re actually doing with it outside of the obvious :)
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James Rankin
01/30/2023, 10:14 PMShout if you want help understanding any of it
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John Gallacher
01/31/2023, 6:56 AMNice one, James. Quick Q actually... how does the profile piece handle replication/redundancy between sites and an active/active scenario? Ta
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James Rankin
01/31/2023, 9:26 AMIt's an SQL backend, so your options are SQL-related - AlwaysOn, mirroring, replication, etc.
James Rankin
01/31/2023, 9:26 AMThe connection to the database is brokered through a web server, so you may want to consider resilience and/or load balancing in the web server aspect of it too
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John Gallacher
01/31/2023, 9:27 AMGot it - does it work pretty well in comparison to the likes of Cloud cache? Granted totally separate tech...
John Gallacher
01/31/2023, 9:27 AMFrom highlevel it looks like they have done a good job of it..
John Gallacher
01/31/2023, 9:27 AMAre the actual profiles on a share or in a file based SQL DB?
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James Rankin
01/31/2023, 9:28 AMCloud Cache works on a profile level. The Ivanti Personalization database copies down "bits" of your profile as required. Mainly the components of your profile are in the SQL db, but you can call out to file shares as well for redirection, to copy in specific files, etc.
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James Rankin
01/31/2023, 9:30 AMI would hope they've already got a robust design in place to handle resilience for the two web services and the two databases. The Personalization Server web service and database is the most crucial as this contains your profiles and personalization, so if this is offline users will get blank profiles. However the other database and web service (the Management Server) is not as crucial - generally if this goes down all you will lose is the ability to deploy any updates, see events, etc.
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John Gallacher
01/31/2023, 9:31 AMAwesome... very helpful, Rankin. I'll grab you a beer at the next CUGC 😉
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James Rankin
01/31/2023, 9:32 AMIn the middle of an Ivanti project so happy to help while it is fresh in my mind 🙂
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Steve Noel
02/08/2023, 10:23 PMthink their personalization replication feature is called GeoSync replication, got close to using it, but never did.
Steve Noel
02/08/2023, 10:23 PMLove me some EM, everything you ever wanted in Group Policy Management, and more.