UEM and SharePoint

[veedeeeye]

Hi all,

I'm currently evaluating Horizon and UEM for our environment. We use on-premises SharePoint for file storage and users access Office apps via RDSH.

At the moment I'm exploring the possibility of assigning an Office AppStack to RDSH servers which users will use to access apps.

Would I be able to use variables to map users to their SharePoint drives using UEM? So if a user opens Word via RDSH and click File > Save As, they're mapped to their own SP site?

Is anyone using UEM with SharePoint in this way?

Thanks,

[DEMdev]

Hi veedeeeye​,

I'm not familiar with Sharepoint, so could you maybe explain how you would go about doing this "manually"? Then we can see if there's any way for UEM to do that.

BTW, I like your user name 🙂

[veedeeeye]

Ha ha thanks

I have past experience with Horizon and App Volumes but I'm just starting out with UEM.

To achieve this manually, as userA, you can launch Word as a hosted Horizon app, click File > Save As and using File Explorer, you browse to e.g.

https://domain.sharepoint/documents/userA/layouts/15/etcetc.aspx

which will 'map' their own SharePoint document library. This seems to stick between RDSH sessions.

UserB would have to perform similar to manually browse to their site:

https://domain.sharepoint/documents/userB/layout/15/etcetc.aspx

I'd like to explore a variable in UEM to automatically set the default save location for Office apps to each individual users' sites.

Thanks!

[veedeeeye]

The 2 scenarios I can envisage at the moment are

a:     Populate the Default local file location path in Word with the url to the SharePoint library so rather than C:\User\Documents it would specifiy https://domain.sharepoint/user/etc...

b.     Folder redirection from C:\User\Documents on the local RDSH server back to the SharePoint library

[DEMdev]

Sorry, my "manually" was a bit confusing... I meant to ask how you, as an admin, would set this up for your users without UEM.

[veedeeeye]

At present users are only using Office Online so can save back to SharePoint through that easily.

To achieve this with RDSH hosted Office apps and without UEM, I'd probably have to look at a HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry setting to set the default save value for Office.

I'm still trying to understand how UEM fits in with our requirements...

[DEMdev]

If you can indeed figure out where exactly in the user profile Office keeps this info, you could probably/hopefully use UEM's predefined settings to apply this to all your users.

[veedeeeye]

So you could create a new predefined setting, amend the Flex Profile Reg file to reference the Office reg path and enforce this to all users?

[Ray_handels]

For as far as I can see you can do almost anything related to populating settings to a user using UEM.

Only thing is that you need to figure out what settings you need to change. We have quite some registry settings that are being applied to a bunch of users by UEM during logon, one for example is adding trusted sites within IE (just an example of many).

Easiest way is to export the setting from your registry editor as a .reg file and import this into the registry settings part of the User Environment part of UEM.