Apply Application Deployment Constraints to Devices and Operating Systems
We are delighted to announce the newest feature for Numecent Cloudpager: Trust Policies. With Cloudpager Trust Policies, you can restrict application deployments to permitted devices and Windows Operating System versions.
Cloudpager Trust Policies further enhance the capabilities of Cloudpager policies adding to existing policies such as the unique license enforcement policies, automatic revocation of application access on a certain date and time, removing applications after a certain period of inactivity, enabling offline application access and more with the additional policies offered in Trust Policies, Cloudpager customers now have more control over their applications than ever before.
Enterprise Use Cases for Trust Policies
Everything we do is to simplify the mobilization and management of applications across physical and virtual Windows desktops. The new Trust Policies feature was specifically designed for enterprise use cases.
Device Targeting
We had a customer request for a feature that provides the ability to deploy an application to a group of employees, while requiring employees only access the application when using a desktop containing specific host name-prefix.
That customer can now use a dynamic Entra ID group for devices with that prefix and publish the applications in Cloudpager Workpods with a Trust Policy to ensure the conditions for this conditional access are met before publishing the application, in this instance that the desktop the employee is logged into is in the dynamic Entra ID group for desktops with the known prefix.
These capabilities are all demonstrated in the video featured above.
Windows Operating System Targeting
Another use case is for those Enterprises with strict support policies for Windows operating systems used in the organizations. In the past, I worked for multiple large enterprises who set a list of Windows operating systems that could be used in the organization. Administrators and Power Users, such as developers, may have tried to self-upgrade their desktops to the latest Windows OS such as Windows 11 before the EUC team formally migrated them (a classic case of shadow IT). In cases, these employees may have run on unsupported OS without issues, which were only detected through a reactive audit of connected devices or when they tried to get support from their respective EUC or Service Desk team –such as an application deployment issue.
Trust Policies allow you to apply Cloudpager Policies on an even more granular level by requiring a condition that applications must be running on a supported version of the Windows OS for your environment.
By using Cloudpager to deliver applications as containers and implementing Trust Policies with a set list of allowed operating systems, you can take a proactive approach to the aforementioned shadow IT, as managed applications on those employee devices will be automatically removed if a device is upgraded to an unsupported OS.
Our best-in-class Cloudpaging application container can be used to successfully deliver virtually any Windows application including large development products like Visual Studio. Providing enterprises a genuine solution for managing all company desktops including those assigned to power developers. Regaining control over what is installed and connected to the corporate network by adding Trust Policies at the application level.
Deploying Software with Specific Hardware Requirements
If you have software that requires certain hardware peripherals such as GPU requirements, label printers, or barcode scanners, Trust Policies can be used to limit deployments the software in question to devices known to have the necessary hardware.
For example, if you have AutoCAD software that requires high GPU in your VDI environment, you can target software to only run on the virtual desktops with the proper specifications required to effectively run the software.
Managing Offline Application Access
Many of our customers have hybrid desktop IT environments comprised of physical and virtual Windows desktops. While they use the same applications across both, they only want to enable offline access for physical endpoints as there is no benefit to offline access on VDI that requires connectivity to function.
For example, one of our construction customers has field technicians that have both physical and virtual Windows desktops they use for work. When they go into the field, they can only utilize physical devices and need offline application access in areas that have little or no bandwidth.
While they could already create offline application access at the Workpod level, they could only provide offline access at the user level not the device level. With Trust Policies, they can now restrict offline application access to physical devices for their field technicians with a few clicks.
Conclusion
Cloudpager Trust Policies introduce conditional access to the world of modern application container management for Windows desktops. You now have even greater power and control over your applications, with the ability to dynamically manage them across all physical and virtual Windows desktops.
If you would like a personal demo of the feature, please contact us.
