VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) is a standalone component of VMware Horizon Enterprise Edition which provides robust, contextual, dynamic end-user persona management capabilities across different devices and locations. UEM can be used to provide a personalized and consistent desktop experience across Horizon desktops, physical computers, Windows RDS servers, and even virtual desktops managed by other virtual desktop platforms.
While UEM offers a significant number of different options for managing and customizing a users' persona, as we will show in this chapter, a basic installation capable of saving user persona data can be set up and running in less than 30 minutes.
By the end of this chapter, we will learn:
The UEM pre-installation tasks, including file share and AD group policy requirements
How to install the UEM Agent
How to use the UEM Easy Start feature to quickly configure a basic UEM environment
How to configure the UEM group...