Workspace Management                          

The Workspace Management market is generating increasing attention as IT professionals and analysts recognize that the desktop configuration of the future will be a mix of traditional workstations, thin clients, remote terminals, and virtual desktops, with the complexity of managing all the end user information a key challenge for IT.

What is Workspace Management?
Put simply, Workspace Management software enables an enterprise and IT professionals to centrally compose and manage an end user’s “personal”  workspace – the unique combination of personal desktop settings, security, and administrative profile – separately from the user’s underlying applications, systems software, and hardware. This greatly simplifies IT administration, ensures compliance, and saves money. Workspace Management is a critical enabling technology today in server based computing, and, as  it is vital to the success of Desktop Virtualization.

Limitations of Existing Solutions

Some of the limitations of this solution are:

1. Only certain settings can be captured. Many applications do not write to the designated locations. Settings written into other registry locations (besides the HKCU registry area) and other file folders, besides the designated locations, are lost.
2. The solution does not allow for fine grained access control. If the group policy is designated, users cannot modify settings. This ‘all or nothing’ approach is not suitable in many scenarios. The group policy could apply to access to files, drives, or application settings.
3. As profile settings are typically stored in a shared file location and synchronized at log-on/off, it creates two
   problems. First, it makes log-on/off slow since the profiles have to be synchronized across the network and second, since these profile changes are written only at log-off, changes typically get lost if user does not cleanly log-off.
4. The application and user settings need to function seamlessly in a hydrid application delivery within a VDI
   session comprised of local installed apps, virtual apps and terminal services applications. Current methods require separate profile management solution for each application delivery solution.

 The Solution: Workspace Management
Workspace Management solutions address the limitations of existing solutions by decoupling the user workspace, which broadly consists of application settings pertaining to a user, from the applications and the operating system in such a manner that those settings can be seamlessly layered on top of any application delivery mechanism. Such isolation is a very important aspect of today's virtualization solutions. In a way, the user workspace is virtualized and is agnostic to the virtualization solution that is being used: server, client, or cloud hosted.

Workspace Management solutions like RES PowerFuse provided by RES Software provide a comprehensive solution in several ways.

These solutions maintain a repository containing stateful information about the user workspace. This information is comprehensive and not limited to the information typically stored in the user preference directories and registry locations. This complete abstraction of user settings from the underlying operating system allows the replication of the user experience in a new user session seamlessly by layering that information on top of whatever environment the user is running.

Since Workspace Management solutions have the capability to capture all changes made during a user’s session, including those that are written outside of the standard user profile locations, the types of changes and personalizations captured and retained by a user workspace solution are much broader than what can be captured via existing roaming profile based solutions.

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