Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager Release Notes

Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager offers personalization and dynamic policy configuration across any virtual, physical, and cloud-based environment. Dynamic Environment Manager can simplify end-user profile management with a single and scalable solution. IT can simply map infrastructure (including networks and printer mappings) and dynamically set policies for end-users. You can experience quick, personalized, and consistent access to your Windows workspace and applications. Dynamic Environment Manager provides a secured by default approach by logging the users out in case the Flex config files path is not available at logon.

Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager Release Notes provide information about the new features and enhancements in each release. This page contains a summary of the new capabilities, issues resolved, and known issues that are reported in each version.

What's New

• Computer Environment configuration. Administrators can now manage Environment Variables, Files and Folders, and Registry Settings directly for Computer Environments as well. This provides the same experience you know from a user context, without relying on Startup Tasks or custom scripts.

• Enhancements to Windows Common Settings, Application Templates, and Easy Start. Updates to Windows Common Settings and Application Templates to support Windows 11 scenarios, improved Office coverage, and removed obsolete items. Existing configurations continue to remain operational. The Management Console provides prompts to upgrade when a referenced template is updated with newer definitions. See Create a Flex Configuration File by Using Windows Common Settings.

• Added comparison operators to File Version condition. Target experiences with precision using the updated File Version condition. In addition to “is equal to”, the following comparison operators are supported:

  • “is not equal to”
  • “is less than”
  • “is less than or equal to”
  • “is greater than”
  • “is greater than equal to”

• Added a new setting to skip shortcut or file type association if target/command does not exist. For more information, see Configure Shortcuts and Configure File Type Associations.

• Latest Operating System Support. Dynamic Environment Manager now supports Windows 11 25H2.

• Updated Components. This release updates the main product components. Application Profiler, Helpdesk Support Tool, and SyncTool are not updated.

Resolved Issues

• DEM-574: Self-Support Tool only saves selected user-managed auto-start shortcuts that match the search filter
  When a user configures shortcuts for auto-start using the Self-Support Tool with a non-empty search filter, only the selected shortcuts that match the filter are saved.
  This issue is resolved in this release.

Known Issues

• DEM-188: New Microsoft Teams does not trigger DirectFlex processing
  Launches of the new Microsoft Teams are performed by the AppInfo service. In older versions of Dynamic Environment Manager, AppInfo starting a DirectFlex-enabled executable triggered DirectFlex processing. With the default DEM configuration, this behavior does not exist.
  Workaround: To enable the old behavior, set REG_DWORD value DirectFlex to 2 in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Immidio\Flex Profiles key (for Group Policy-based setups), or in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Omnissa\DEM\Agent\Configuration key (for NoAD).

• DEM-724: COM servers do not trigger DirectFlex processing
  In older versions of Dynamic Environment Manager, instantiating an out-of-process COM object hosted by a DirectFlex-enabled executable triggered DirectFlex processing. With the default DEM configuration, this behavior does not exist.
  Workaround: To enable the old behavior, set REG_DWORD value DirectFlex to 1 in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Immidio\Flex Profiles key (for Group Policy-based setups), or in the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Omnissa\DEM\Agent\Configuration key (for NoAD).

• DEM-725:

  • Cannot display button text on some Asian versions of Windows operating systems
    On some Asian versions of Windows operating systems, the button text in the Management Console, the Application Profiler, and the Helpdesk Support Tool might be missing.
    Workaround: Specify the /NoScale command-line argument when you start the Management Console, Application Profiler, and the Helpdesk Support Tool.

  • Button text truncated on some Asian versions of Windows operating systems
    On some Asian versions of Windows operating systems, the button text in the Self-Support Tool is truncated if a German Multilingual User Interface is used.
    Workaround: No workaround exists for this issue.

• DEM-902: "Run once" does not work for user environment settings in silo-based non-DirectFlex config files
  If the Run once option is selected for a user environment setting configured in a non-DirectFlex configuration file in a silo, Error determining whether DEM setting should be applied - DEM path '\\domain\share\silos\...' does not start with Flex config files path '\\domain\share\general\' is logged at run-time. Because the run-once status of the setting cannot be determined, it is applied every time.
  Workaround: No workaround exists for this issue.

Documentation

Documentation for Omnissa Dynamic Environment Manager is located at Omnissa Product Documentation.

Internationalization

Dynamic Environment Manager content is available in English and Chinese. For details on Omnissa’s localization strategy, see the knowledge base article Announcing Omnissa Localization Support.

Support Contact Information

To receive support, access Customer Connect. For information about filing a Support Request in Customer Connect and using Cloud Services Portal, see the Knowledge Base (KB) article 6000005.