Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Migrate Windows XP desktop Settings to Windows 7 using Appsense Environment Manager

The following registry keys can be used to control the Appsense Personalization behaviour.

HKLM\Software\Appsense Technologies\Environment Manager
HKCU\Software\Appsense Technologies\Environment Manager

DesktopSettingDisabled   0 = Enabled   1= Disabled
CertificatesDisabled         0 = Enabled   1=Disabled
SessionDataDisabled        0=Enabled    1=Disabled

These setting are handy if you wish to perform actions like a 1 way migration of XP Desktop settings to Win7.
In this scenario you will have Desktop Personalisation Enabled in the config. But would create a Disable action for users logging onto a Windows XP desktop. This would result in the following settings being applied.

Windows XP Logon - Disable DesktopSettings
Windows XP Logoff - Enable DesktopSettings
Win7 Logon             - Enable DesktopSettings
Win7 Logoff             - Enable DesktopSettings

This means that the Windows XP settings are saved of onto Windows 7. Windows 7 keeps its setting but if the user logs back onto a Windows XP it does not bring in their new Win7 desktop settings.

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