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jpolichnowski
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Multiple sessions

Is it possible to use UEM with "Multiple sessions from different devices" from the same user? Or will this cause corruption?  I have an environment where users log into community workstations that all use the same username.

Thanks,

Jason

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DEMdev
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi jpolichnowski,

How do you intend to use UEM? I guess not so much to save the users' (well, user's :slightly_smiling_face: settings, but to apply user environment settings like ADMX-based settings and application blocking, and mapping printers?

Either way, no real risk of corruption. Probably good to include the computer name in the log file path or file name, to prevent contention for a single log file. Similarly, if you're planning on using RunOnce for certain user environment settings: the state of that is stored in the user's profile archive folder, so you might want to make that unique per computer as well.

If you can elaborate a bit on your intended use we might be able to provide some more guidance, but in general things should be pretty straightforward.

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jpolichnowski
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Glad to hear that it should work for the most part.  As for my environment, I am using floating instant clone pools.  For my community workstation users, I am mostly wanting to apply the user settings for this group of users but there might be a few settings that I wish to save for chrome and IE.

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sjesse
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Leadership

I've done this before and the only issue I ran into is the last session to logoff is what is changed, and there isn't a way around this from what I understand. I had an issue where someone was logged into two sessions, forgot about one, changed the email signature in one. They then logged out and logged into the other one, and logged out without changing it there. The end result was the signature was not changed, because the settings exported from the last session overwrote the one logged out previously.

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DEMdev
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Hi jpolichnowski,

there might be a few settings that I wish to save for chrome and IE

Can you elaborate a bit on that? Saving these settings would mean that you'd basically be saving the settings of "random" users?

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jmatz135
Hot Shot
Hot Shot

We do this all the time.  I constantly have like 6 desktops launched.  The only issue like one person said earlier is that the last logoff (or close of application if using directflex) wins as to what is copied to their UEM profile.  Probably not suggested for normal users to have multiple desktops available to them unless you really really really explain to them about this.

There is also one other possible issue to this and that is opportunistic locking on the file shares you have.  Basically if one desktop has the file on the share locked and the other tries to access it it isn't going to work.  I haven't had an issue with this for UEM on logoff, but I have seen it on login if you try to log into two different desktops very quickly.