FREE: VirtuAll User Environment Manager (VUEM) – Centrally manage desktop settings

Submitted by Pierre Marmignon – Website: VirtuAll Solutions

VirtuAll User Environment Manager (VUEM) allows you to eliminate login scripts and mange centrally manage user environments.

VirtuAll User Environment Manager (VUEM) navigation

VirtuAll User Environment Manager (VUEM) navigation

You can manage the following desktop objects with VUEM:

Applications: Applications shortcut creation (Start Menu, Desktop, Quicklaunch, Pin To Taskbar, Pin To Start Menu) and eventually application AutoLaunch
Printers: Network printers mapping + default printer settings. Import from network print server possible.
Network Drives: Network drive mapping (with friendly name setting and external credentials option)
Virtual Drives: Virtual drive connection (equivalent to subst)
Registry Entry: Registry value creation and modification
Environment variable: Creation and modification
Ports: LPT / COM port mapping
Ini Files: Ini files entry population
External Tasks: Any external task (.exe, script) with run once, run hidden, wait or not until completion
Folders and Files: Folders / files copy (with wildcards)
User DSN: SQL User DSN Creation
File Associations: Creation and modification
Fast Logoff: disconnects the RDP / ICA session as soon as a logoff event is received
CPU Management: process priority change when CPU exceeds a defined threshold and back to normal after a specified time
Memory Management: force idle apps to lower memory consumption
Processes management: Processes blacklisting with end user message

All actions can be filtered on one or more conditions.

Condition types are:

Always True: For internal consistency
ComputerName: Test the computer name against a specific wildcard
ClientName (SBC): Test the client name against a specific wildcard
IP Address: Test the IP address against a specific wildcard
Client IP Address (SBC): Test the client IP address against a specific wildcard
Active Directory Site: Test the Active Directory Site Name
Scheduling: Test a specific (or several) day(s) of the week
Environment Variable: Test for a specific environment variable value
Registry Value: Test a specific registry value
WMI Query Result: Test if a specific custom WMI Query has a result
User Country: Test a specific user country two letters ISO code
User UI Language: Test a specific user UI language two letters ISO code
User SBC Resource Type: Test for a specific user if the used SBC resource is a desktop or a Published Application
OS Platform Type: Test against the bitness of the user’s operating system
Connection State: Test against agent’s connection state (online / offline)
XenApp Version: Test against XenApp version
Xenapp Farm Name: Test against Xenapp Farm Name
XenApp Zone Name: Test against Xenapp Zone Name
XenDesktop Farm Name: Test against XenDesktop Farm Name
XenDesktop Desktop Group: Test against XenDesktop Desktop Group Name
Provisioning Services Image Type: Test against provisioning services image type

Additional features:

Two Agents Kind (console / UI) and an agent service for system utilities and offline mode support (through SQL Compact localhost cache)
Agent service can launch the agent at logon (so that you don’t have to launch it through a script) but can also on reconnect
BackEnd Database is SQL. Tested on 2005 to 2008 R2 including Express releases
There are lots of options allowing to delete shortcuts at startup, clean the environment (delete everything on first run to ensure the tool is managing all items
Actions Modeling is available through admin console and rsop like utility for client side