RES Workspace Manager and Automation Manager 2011 feature new branding and packaging. Key updates include improved security features like dynamic privileges and user installed application control, as well as service orchestration integration and user settings templates. The release also focuses on scalability, integration, and database migration capabilities. Security enhancements for Automation Manager 2011 include permissions for remote console access, jobs, and repository folders.

1. RES Workspace Manager 2011
RES Automation Manager 2011
What’s New

2. Arno van Doorn
Richard Jaspers
Presales
a.vandoorn@ressoftware.com
r.jaspers@ressoftware.com
Twitter account: @RESsoftware_NL
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4. New branding
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5. New packaging
Composition & Advanced Security &
Personalization Administration Performance
• Desktop Transformation • Delegation of Control • Application Security
• Application Management • Remote Application • Dynamic Privileges
• Zero Profile Technology Integration • Website Security
• Workspace Analysis • Instant Reporting • Network Security
• Folder Synchronization • Compliancy • User Installed Applications
• Email Templates • Tracking and Reporting • Removable Disk Control
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6. Dynamic Privileges
Why?
• Principle of least privilege
• Legacy applications w/ Windows 7 security
• Control panel applets
What does it do?
• Elevate processes without modifying user account/
context
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7. Improved user installed applications
Why?
• More flexibility for the end user
• More control for the administrator
What does it do?
• Allow or block specific software installations
• Dynamic Privileges
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8. Website security
Why?
• More web applications
• Proxy servers are not context aware
• Personal Internet life
What does it do?
• Allow or block specific websites
• Based on context of the user
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9. Service Orchestration integration
Why?
• Service centric IT with
RES Automation Manager 2011
What does it do?
• Use IT service subscriptions as
access principle for any type
of content
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10. User settings templates
Why?
• Roaming profiles are difficult to manage
and contain slack
• Moving away from roaming profiles
with Zero Profile Technology
What does it do?
• Easy configuration of personalization
• Common applications
– Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 & 2010
– Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8
– Mozilla Firefox 1, 2 & 3
– Adobe Reader 6, 7, 8, 9 & X
– ...
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11. Database migration and split
Why?
• Easy migration of existing RES Workspace
Manager environments (eg. SQL to Azure)
• Split usage tracking from configuration
What does it do?
• Selective storage for parts of the database
– Configuration and state
– Logging
– Usage tracking
• Cross database platform
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12. VDX integration
• Control VDX-plugin from WM console
• Workspace extended applications
– Check executable availablility
– File types
• Connect all/ default printer
• Connect session drives
• Invoke local screensaver
• Location and devices
– VDX-plugin IP address
– VDX-plugin USB serial number
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13. And more…
• Restore User Settings from Console
• User Settings per device/ roaming
• Linked Application Actions
• New Context Rules
– Session Type for better VDI detection
– Remote host/ URL for advanced network state detection
• Postpone Loading User Settings
• Dismiss Automation Task by End User
• Significant file I/O performance improvements
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14. Summary
• New packaging and branding
• Security
– Dynamic Privileges
– Improved user installed applications
– Website security
• Service Orchestration integration
• User settings templates
• Database migration and split
• And more…
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16. New branding
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17. What’s New in Automation Manager 2011
The development efforts of RES Automation
Manager 2011 are focused on:
• Service Orchestration
• Scalability
• Integration and Compatibility
• Security
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18. Architecture
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19. Scalability
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20. Integration and Compatibility
• Send SNMP
• Citrix Workflow (Invoke)
• Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2
and Microsoft Windows 7
• Support for Microsoft Exchange 2010
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21. Security
• Permissions on Remote Console Functionality
• Permissions on Jobs
• Agents Can Inherit Access Permissions from
Primary Teams
• Permissions on Folders in Repository Nodes
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22. Other New functionality
• Direct Broadcast Support for Wake On LAN
• Query Evaluators
• Job (Postpone)
• Printer (Add, Remove, Query)
• Script Support for Execute Command and
Secure Shell
• New Functions
• Notification about Scheduled Jobs after
Modifying Module, Project or Run Book
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23. Thank You
Questions?
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