Knowledge Worker 2025 - Overview

Overview and Benefits

Knowledge Worker 2025 is an experimental preview aligned with today’s modern knowledge‑worker behaviors. While it’s fully functional, we’re still validating performance across diverse environments and intend to integrate these workloads officially into Login Enterprise in a future release. We encourage you to explore, compare results manually, and share feedback—your insights will help us refine and finalize this exciting capability.

Knowledge Worker 2025 is a suite of modern EUC workloads that together emulate how real users work: multiple Office apps and browser tabs remain open continuously, performing CPU‑, GPU‑, memory‑, and I/O‑intensive tasks—high‑def image insertion, chart re‑formatting, multimedia playback, and graphically‑intensive slide transitions—while interacting via smooth, human‑like scrolling (this scrolling functionality is new!). These workloads can run against virtual, cloud, or physical laptops and desktops to validate any environment.

Key benefits:

  • True‑to‑life load: Reflects a contemporary user’s day, so test results align with real‑world performance.
  • Persistent applications: For the first time in Knowledge Worker history, apps stay open end‑to‑end, measuring steady‑state behavior.
  • Right‑sizing and validation: Confirm capacity and configuration of cloud, on‑prem, hybrid, or physical endpoints before go‑live.
  • Configuration testing: Verify Office installs, base images, and settings under realistic usage.
  • Continuous monitoring: Automate performance checks in production to catch regressions early.
  • Comprehensive metrics: Under realistic Knowledge Worker load, capture EUX and VSImax scores, Application performance thresholds and notifications, and latency.

Activation requirement:

Microsoft Office must be properly installed and activated with a valid license (per-user or volume‑licensed) on each endpoint before running these workloads; otherwise, dialogs or feature restrictions may interrupt or invalidate the workload execution.

For information on the Knowledge Worker 2022, see the Knowledge Worker 2022 - Default Workload.

Showcase

In this accelerated clip, you’ll see a grid of virtual desktops—each tile representing a separate Login Enterprise virtual user—simultaneously running the Knowledge Worker 2025 workload to generate realistic, concurrent load across CPU, GPU, memory, and I/O.

Workload Execution Steps

Download Workloads

To download any of these workloads, click the workload name links to visit its detailed document—each includes direct download links for the corresponding script files.

Prepare Phase (Run Once Only - Choose One)

  1. Office 2019 Prepare - Launches Word, dismisses setup dialogs, and ensures a clean state by closing any stray windows.
  2. Microsoft 365 Prepare - Sets registry flags to suppress activation/EULA prompts, launches Word to apply settings, and clears dialogs.

Start Phase (Run Once and Leave Applications Running)

  1. Outlook Start - Imports a PRF, loads PST data, dismisses sign-in prompts, and maximizes the Inbox. Outlook remains open.
  2. Edge Start (Multiple Tabs) - Opens predefined tabs (videos, PDFs, web pages), keeps Edge running to generate load (CPU, memory, GPU).
  3. Excel Start - Launches Excel with a specific workbook, dismisses first-run prompts, and maximizes the window.
  4. Word Start - Opens a predefined document in Word, skips setup dialogs, and maximizes the window.
  5. PowerPoint Start - Downloads a presentation, opens PowerPoint, clears dialogs, and maximizes the workspace.

Run Phase (Run in Order Below)

  1. Outlook Run - Scrolls through Inbox, opens messages, composes new emails, embeds BMPs, copies/pastes, and sends with attachments.
  2. Edge Run (Multiple Tabs) - Refreshes pages, cycles through tabs, and scrolls to simulate ongoing real browsing activity.
  3. Excel Run - Performs data ops: scrolls sheets, inserts charts, changes layouts, and saves to test rendering and CPU.
  4. Word Run - Simulates typing, embeds BMPs, copies/pastes text, and smooth scrolls for realistic editing behavior.
  5. PowerPoint Run - Adds slides, embeds images, applies transitions (e.g., Honeycomb), runs slideshow, and saves to stress the GPU.
  6. Repeat from Outlook Run if:
    1. The Test is configured to loop, or it is a Load Test, and
    2. There’s enough time remaining to complete a full new loop.

Deploying Knowledge Worker 2025

  1. Upload Workloads to Appliance
    1. Consult Uploading scripts.
    2. Refer to Application Groups.
  2. Configure settings
    1. Prepare scripts: Run Once only.
    2. Start workloads: Run Once & Leave Application Running.
    3. For details, see Application configurations: Run Once and Leave Application Running.
  3. Create Application Group.
    1. Name it Knowledge Worker 2025.
    2. Add the workloads in the sequence below. Be sure that only one prepare script is added and enabled.

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  4. Add to Load Test
    1. See Adding Applications to a Load Test.
  5. Configure and Run
    1. Launch your Test to drive EUX (see EUX info), VSImax, pass/fail application statistics, and application, session, user logon, and latency measurements.

Conclusion

You’re now ready to leverage Knowledge Worker 2025—a breakthrough suite that keeps applications and browser tabs open, uses smooth, human‑like scrolling, and pushes modern graphics and compute workloads. Expect your EUX responsiveness and VSImax scores to reflect the increased realism compared to Knowledge Worker 2022.

Happy testing—ensure your users always get the performance they need!