Meeting with a colleague earlier this week, I discovered that a significant rebranding/realignment occurred with one of our ecosystem partners, AppSense. Similar to Citrix’s acquisition of Xen, requiring a rebranding of all core products, our friends over at AppSense have finalized their branding initiative to classify three core product families, DesktopNow (Formerly AppSense Management Suite / AMS family includes Environment Manager, Application Manager, and Performance Manager), DataNow (Corporate/secured Dropbox solution), and MobileNow (Mobile Device Management / Mobile Application Management / Enterprise AppStore). While I won’t go into detail on what each of these product families will cover, I felt it [...]

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Installation Part 2: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Configuration < YOU ARE HERE! Part 3: Importing the Base Configuration Part 4: Deploying the Client Communications Agent Click Launch Management Server Configuration once the install has finished: Review the Welcome screen and click Next: Review the prerequisites and click View: Click Repair All to remedy any required prerequisites: Click Refresh: Once all requirements have been [...]

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Installation Part 2: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Configuration Part 3: Importing the Base Configuration < YOU ARE HERE! Part 4: Deploying the Client Communications Agent From the Start Menu, launch the AppSense Environment Manager Console: To provide a starting point for Proof of Concept deployments, I am providing a Base Configuration MSI that can be imported into Environment Manager. This is a collection [...]

If you’ve just stumbled upon this article, I recommend you start from the beginning by clicking the Part 1 link below.  For easy reading, I’ve broken this blog post into four parts: Part 1: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Installation Part 2: AppSense DesktopNow Single Server Configuration Part 3: Importing the Base Configuration Part 4: Deploying the Client Communications Agent < YOU ARE HERE! From an AppSense Managed System, navigate to http://%appsenseservername%/ManagementServer in a Web Browser. Click either AppSense CCA 32 Bit or AppSense CCA 64 Bit: Click Run: Click Run: Click Next: Accept the License Agreement and click Next: Click Next: [...]