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Hi,

I would like to be able to enable "legacy" path-based import/export as I want to use DEM as it used to work for the use case I am working on.

I want to use the command line similar to this...

"C:\Program Files\Immidio\Flex Profiles\FlexEngine.exe" -r "\\server\\share$\profile\%username%.%userdomain%\Migration" -i "\\server\share$\FlexProfiles\general\FlexRepository -R -f "\\server\share$\profile\%username%.%userdomain%\MigrationLogs\FlexEngine.log" -l DEBUG

When I attempt to run FlexEngine.exe in using these command line arguments to export and import, the logs will say "[DEBUG] Skipping legacy path-based export" and "[DEBUG] Skipping legacy path-based import".

However, it does trigger during a standard user logon and logoff. The logs say “[INFO ] Performing path-based export” and “[INFO ] Performing path-based import”.

Stopping and disabling the “VMware DEM Service” (ImmidioFlexProfiles) service, stops it from triggering for logon and logoff events, which is good, as I don’t want it to work that way because of the use case I implementing this for. However, even with this service stopped the command line still tells me that it’s skipping legacy path-based imports and exports.

I’m using one of the latest versions, which is 10.4.0.1013 Standard Edition, and unsure if this is a change in the way the newer versions work. I haven't used this for about 3 years now.

Is there a configuration I'm missing or any trick that I haven't read about to get the legacy mode working?

The only Group Policy setting I can see is to run the FlexEngine at logon and logoff using the Group Policy Extension, so I’ve disabled this in case it’s defaulting to enabled.

• Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Immidio\Flex Profiles\Arguments
• Type: DWORD
• Value: GPClientSideExtension
• Data: 0

It made no difference.

I put together the following batch file to test different scenarios….

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rem Notes:

rem   UEMConfigShare is an existing User Environment Variable set to \\fileserver\share$\FlexProfiles\general

rem   UEMProfileArchives is an existing User Environment Variable set to \\fileserver\share$\profile\<username>.<userdomain>\Migration

rem   -b- argument to prevent creating backups

Set UEMProfileLogs=\\fileserver\share$\profile\%username%.%userdomain%\MigrationLogs

rem Exporting the settings referencing an individual ini works, and is not considered legacy.

"%ProgramFiles%\Immidio\Flex Profiles\FlexEngine.exe" -i "%UEMConfigShare%\TestApp.ini" -s "%UEMProfileArchives%\TestApp.zip" -b- -R -f "%UEMProfileLogs%\FlexEngine.log" -l DEBUG

rem Exporting the settings referencing the config share fails as it's considered legacy, so is skipped

rem "%ProgramFiles%\Immidio\Flex Profiles\FlexEngine.exe"-s "%UEMProfileArchives%" -i "%UEMConfigShare%" -b- -R -f "%UEMProfileLogs%\FlexEngine.log" -l DEBUG

rem Exporting the settings allowing FlexEngine to read its config, also fails, as it's considered legacy, so is skipped.

rem "%ProgramFiles%\Immidio\Flex Profiles\FlexEngine.exe" -s -f "%UEMProfileLogs%\FlexEngine.log" -l DEBUG

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Whilst I can create a line for each ini file, or combine multiple apps into a single ini file, I would prefer legacy mode working.

Any help you can provide would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Jeremy