1. USER EXPERIENCE VIRTUALIZATION 2.0 (MDOP 2013 R2) Presenter - Fred Bainbridge @FredBainbridge

2. USER EXPERIENCE VIRTUALIZATION 2.0  Overview  Template Generator  Management

3. OVERVIEW  Personalizes the enterprise desktop experience.  Captures Application Settings and Preferences  Captures OS theme and desktop settings  Compatible with App-V 5.0 Applications

4. UE-V OVERVIEW What can it do? Most registry and file changes What can’t it do? Java Applications Excluded Locations HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry keys and files to which the logged-on user cannot write values HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry keys and files that are associated with the core functionality of the Windows operating system All registry keys that are located in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive Files that are located in Program Files directories Files that are located in Users \ [User name] \ AppData \ LocalLow Windows operating system files that are located in %Systemroot%

5. UE-V OVERVIEW Captured Settings are applied after the following events: When a registered application is launched. When a user logs onto a computer. When a user unlocks a computer. When a connection is made to a remote desktop. When the Sync Controller Application scheduled task is run

6. UE-V TEMPLATE GENERATOR A custom settings template is an XML document that defines what application user settings are being captured. Templates are created using a UeV Generator which monitors what changes when an application is running and outputs an XML document. The XML document can be manually modified.

7. UE-V TEMPLATE GENERATOR UE-V Generator Requirements  NTFS File System  PowerShell 3.0,.Net 4.0  Application must be locally installed UE-V Sequencing Best Practices –  Run the Generator on the oldest possible operating system that you support.  Use a virtual machine  Learn PowerShell

8. UEV-V MANAGEMENT Means to manage UE-V  Command Line parameters during client installation or PowerShell  Group Policy  ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 or higher  Using Configuration Items with Baseline Templates

9. UEV-V MANAGEMENT Agent Settings

10. UEV-V MANAGEMENT Managing UE-V with ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 1.Download System Center 2012 Configuration Pack for UE-V http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/download/details.aspx?id=40913http://www.microsoft.com/en- us/download/details.aspx?id=40913 2.Install the Configuration Pack 3.Configure UEVAgentConfiguration.xml 4.Use UevAgentPolicyGenerator.exe to create the Policy Agent CI (.cab) file. 5.Import the.cab into ConfigMgr 6.Gather all your settings templates (xml) 7.Use UevTemplateBaselineGenerator.exe to create the Template Baseline and CIs for any settings templates (.cab). 8.Import the baseline cab file. 9.Deploy the baseline to target collection(s).

11. UE-V MANAGEMENT  Show UEVAgentConfiguration.xml  Use PowerShell to automate the creation and importation of CIs and Baselines.  Remediation of non compliant device

12. GOTCHYAS  Thin Clients with write filter enabled  Restrictive Desktop Settings  HotFix 1  BGInfo  Know your PowerShell  Migrating from 1.0 to 2.0

13. QUESTIONS? Fred Bainbridge fred@mnscug.org @FredBainbridge