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• Integrating SaaS applications with Citrix Workspace

  Citrix Workspace allows for numerous integrations and one of the most valuable is SaaS applications. The setup process is straightforward but depends on Citrix's level of support. Continue Reading

• How to perform a Citrix Cloud migration with CVAD

  When it comes to migrating on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops to Citrix Cloud, IT administrators should learn the migration process and its prerequisites. Continue Reading

• Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan)

  Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a tool that enables information technology (IT) administrators to organize, group and control remote desktop connections. Continue Reading

• Guide for WVD pricing with Microsoft Azure

  Organizations that want to deploy WVD and Azure should go beyond Microsoft's estimates for pricing and learn the total cost of ownership for these services and resources. Continue Reading

• VMware Horizon sizing guide for Windows 10 environments

  When an organization needs to deploy a VMware Horizon VDI environment with Windows 10 desktops, it must plan for and consider a massive range of factors. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan)
  • graphics processing unit (GPU)
  • Citrix XenApp
  • Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

  • desktop virtualization
  • zero client
  • desktop as a service (DaaS)
  • Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH)

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• Choose a Windows Virtual Desktop managed service provider

  Windows Virtual Desktop can present numerous management and deployment challenges for IT admins, so organizations may want to outsource these processes to a WVD MSP.Continue Reading

• graphics processing unit (GPU)

  A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a computer chip that renders graphics and images by performing rapid mathematical calculations.Continue Reading

• How to set up Microsoft Teams on WVD

  Organizations that rely on Microsoft Teams may want to consider deploying the application via WVD. They can learn how that process works in this step-by-step guide.Continue Reading

• How to fix 8 common remote desktop connection problems

  When the connection between a desktop and its host fails, it's time to do some remote desktop troubleshooting. Check firewalls, security certificates and more if a remote desktop is not working.Continue Reading

• Citrix XenApp

  Citrix XenApp, now part of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, was a product that extends Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host (formerly known as Terminal Services) desktop sessions and applications to users through the Citrix HDX protocol.Continue Reading

• Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

  Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop is an Azure-based cloud service for desktop and application virtualization.Continue Reading

• desktop virtualization

  Desktop virtualization is the concept of isolating a logical operating system (OS) instance from the client that is used to access it.Continue Reading

• zero client

  Zero client, also known as ultrathin client, is a server-based computing model in which the end user's computing device has no local storage.Continue Reading

• Solve the mystery of VDI licensing

  A VDI deployment is tricky enough without worrying about having the right VDI licensing. Stay one step ahead of the problems by knowing which license to use.Continue Reading

• desktop as a service (DaaS)

  Desktop as a service (DaaS) is a cloud computing offering in which a third party hosts the back end of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployment.Continue Reading

• Compare Nutanix Frame vs. Citrix Managed Desktops

  While Nutanix isn't as invested in the end-user market as Citrix, both desktop-as-a-service vendors offer benefits for business use cases. IT must evaluate which is the better fit.Continue Reading

• How does Citrix work on a Chromebook?

  Organizations looking for cost-effective laptops may consider Chromebooks, but IT must learn if these endpoints can coexist with existing business technologies, such as Citrix.Continue Reading

• Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH)

  Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) is a role in Remote Desktop Services (RDS).Continue Reading

• 5 common Citrix printing issues and how to troubleshoot them

  Printing is one of the most frustrating areas of IT management, especially as a VDI admin. Troubleshoot five common Citrix printing issues with these tips and tricks.Continue Reading

• A Windows Virtual Desktop demo on management tools for IT

  In this Windows Virtual Desktop demo, IT pros can learn how to manage Microsoft's DaaS offering and what tools are available to help them take control of WVD.Continue Reading

• How to use Liquidware FlexApp for virtual app layering

  The Liquidware FlexApp tool allows IT to manage virtual apps more effectively, including fewer master desktop images and pushing out updates to in-use layered virtual apps.Continue Reading

• How to use VMware Horizon Performance Tracker

  A good user experience is essential for VDI. Learn how to install and use VMware Horizon Performance Tracker to take the pulse of end-user experience.Continue Reading

• 10 Microsoft Ignite 2019 sessions for VDI admins

  VDI admins attending Microsoft Ignite 2019 could benefit from attending these 10 sessions. This guide can help to build a session schedule for the conference.Continue Reading

• How to perform per-machine install of Microsoft OneDrive, Teams for VDI

  Microsoft OneDrive and Teams can be challenging for VDI, but a per-machine installer can make the process much easier. Watch this video to find out the details.Continue Reading

• What features should IT look for in VDI monitoring tools?

  VDI monitoring tools can help IT get visibility into a complex environment. Here are five features every IT admin should look for in a VDI monitoring tool.Continue Reading

• How to use Samsung DeX for remote desktop clients

  Organizations can harness the capabilities of Samsung DeX and Windows Virtual Desktop to transform mobile devices into thin clients. Discover how to get started with the process.Continue Reading

• How to save FSLogix profile containers to Azure Blob Storage

  FSLogix profiles are a great way to take full advantage of Windows Virtual Desktop. IT can save time and money with this step-by-step process to save FSLogix profile containers to Azure Blob Storage.Continue Reading

• Desktop as a service virtually eases deployment, hosting woes

  If an organization wants to provide virtual desktops for its users without deploying and managing on-premises VDI, it can recruit desktop as a service.Continue Reading

• What does IT need to know about VDI web browsers?

  End users can easily access their virtual desktops and applications through any supported HTML5 web browser. Learn about the pros and cons of using VDI and web browsers together.Continue Reading

• How to avoid VDI overprovisioning

  IT must allocate VDI resources in a balanced way to prevent VDI overprovisioning. Explore some ways to properly allocate resources, such as using a performance monitoring tool.Continue Reading

• When on-premises VDI deployments trump cloud applications

  Desktop as a service lessens IT management, but sacrifices granular control. Check out this handbook to learn more about cloud desktops vs. on-premises VDI.Continue Reading

• terminal server

  A terminal server, also sometimes called a communication server, is a hardware device or server that provides terminals, such as PCs, printers, and other devices, with a common connection point to a local or wide area network (WAN).Continue Reading

• How to use two-factor authentication in Horizon View

  Two-factor authentication is an important security layer for VDI deployments that helps to prevent breaches. Discover the ins and outs of implementing 2FA in VMware Horizon View.Continue Reading

• How do DaaS providers deliver cloud desktops?

  Most DaaS providers offer either session- or client-based desktops. Services differ in the OSes that providers support and the configuration options at IT administrators' disposal.Continue Reading

• Best of Citrix Synergy 2019 Awards criteria and nomination form

  The Best of Citrix Synergy 2019 Awards are coming. Get to know the rules and criteria, and nominate a product for this year's awards using the form below.Continue Reading

• Secure VDI environments with these 3 tips

  Virtual desktops present unique security concerns. Take these three steps to better secure VDI environments from the start.Continue Reading

• Remote Desktop Services (RDS)

  Remote Desktop Services (RDS) is an umbrella term for several specific features of Microsoft Windows Server that allow users to remotely access graphical desktops and Windows applications.Continue Reading

• Diverse VDI endpoints require new management methods in 2019

  IT professionals must make sure they are prepared to manage different types of endpoints as a part of their VDI deployments because the modern workforce requires it.Continue Reading

• Parallels

  Parallels is an application and desktop virtualization software vendor that offers management and delivery platforms for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows desktop deployments.Continue Reading

• Pop quiz: Desktop virtualization certifications for Citrix and VMware

  VMware and Citrix offer numerous certifications for their virtual desktop and app products. Test yourself on the different levels and types of certifications and what each one covers.Continue Reading

• Understand Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop and its benefits

  Microsoft is bringing its virtual desktop offerings into the cloud era. Windows Virtual Desktop represents a big step forward.Continue Reading

• Goliath Technologies

  Goliath Technologies is a performance monitoring software vendor that offers tools to monitor and analyze data centers, back-end servers and network performance for on-premises and cloud deployments.Continue Reading

• How VDI admins can earn VMware and Citrix certifications

  Certifications from Citrix and VMware validate an IT professional's skills with respect to a certain program or tool, and they can help VDI pros improve their careers.Continue Reading

• Learn how to best deploy VDI on HCI

  IT pros considering using HCI to power their VDI deployments should listen to this advice from three IT pros on how to get buy-in throughout the organization and more.Continue Reading

• How can IT improve its virtual application capacity plan?

  When IT deploys virtual apps, it must plan for the applications' capacity needs. Two common planning methods are monitoring app performance and load simulation.Continue Reading

• PCoIP (PC over IP)

  PC over IP (PCoIP) is a remote display protocol that Teradici developed for delivering remote desktops and applications to endpoints.Continue Reading

• Can you handle application and desktop virtualization?

  Virtual app and desktop deployments offer many benefits to IT, such as ease of management and improved security. Test yourself on the benefits of desktop virtualization.Continue Reading

• Can you manage virtual desktop user profile settings?

  IT can control virtual desktops more directly with user profile management. Take this quiz to find out if you know about the different profile types and more.Continue Reading

• How desktop and app virtualization vendors handle mobile devices

  If IT pros want to provide their users with access to virtual desktops and apps on mobile devices, they should know which vendors offer which virtualization services.Continue Reading

• Best practices for managing user profiles

  When IT establishes user profiles for virtual desktops, it has several profile options. If users work from multiple endpoints, for example, IT should use roaming user profiles.Continue Reading

• eG Innovations

  eG Innovations is an end-user experience and infrastructure monitoring software vendor best known for its eG Enterprise product.Continue Reading

• Lakeside Software

  Lakeside Software is a desktop monitoring software company known for its SysTrack product, which provides performance data and analytics for physical and virtual desktops.Continue Reading

• Four questions for virtual app and desktop deployment

  Choosing a virtual desktop delivery method and determining how to host desktops and applications are just two enterprise workstation decisions IT must make.Continue Reading

• Microsoft UE-V (User Experience Virtualization)

  Microsoft UE-V (User Experience Virtualization) is a tool that enables users to move from one Windows device to another and maintain the same operating system (OS) and applications settings.Continue Reading

• Understand and evaluate the user profile management system

  Profile management tools can help admins keep tabs on user profiles and information as long as they properly evaluate the prospective platforms and the capabilities they can provide.Continue Reading

• How to create a VDI test deployment with VMware Workstation

  It's a good idea for IT pros to test out their VDI deployment before they move users to virtual desktops. They can use VMware Workstation to do just that.Continue Reading

• ControlUp

  ControlUp is a monitoring software company that sells tools IT professionals can use to manage, monitor and analyze virtual desktop and application performance.Continue Reading

• Citrix XenDesktop

  Citrix XenDesktop is a desktop virtualization product from software vendor Citrix Systems.Continue Reading

• Best practices for setting up Citrix Cloud services

  Citrix Cloud enables organizations to host XenDesktop, XenApp and more in the cloud, but IT should first set up administration and Cloud Connectors and ensure high availability.Continue Reading

• Ten Citrix Synergy 2018 sessions to attend

  Get a jump start on your Citrix Synergy planning with this rundown of 10 interesting sessions that explore Linux-based virtual desktops, scalability and planning, and more.Continue Reading

• user environment management (UEM)

  User environment management is a technology designed to allow IT to oversee a user's complete desktop experience, including the profile, any policies IT applies and customizations the user makes.Continue Reading

• How to use GPU for rendering graphics in VDI deployments

  Graphics processing needs in VDI deployments are greater than ever. IT must know how to use GPUs to deliver the graphics quality users need in their desktops and apps.Continue Reading

• VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon

  VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon is a monitoring tool that tracks the health and performance of Horizon, Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp, and Remote Desktop Session Host deployments.Continue Reading

• Three VDI capacity planning steps IT must follow

  When planning its VDI deployment, IT must account for the resources users will need to avoid over or under provisioning the virtual desktops and anticipate potential growth.Continue Reading

• Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

  Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) is an application-level network communication system that transfers real-time data from multimedia to an endpoint device by communicating directly with the server streaming the data.Continue Reading

• Best of Citrix Synergy 2018 Awards criteria and nomination form

  Get to know the rules and criteria for this year's Best of Citrix Synergy 2018 Awards below. The deadline to enter has passed.Continue Reading

• Login VSI (Login Virtual Session Indexer)

  Login VSI (Login Virtual Session Indexer) is a software company that specializes in products IT can use to monitor and test loads for server-based computing, VDI and desktop as a service.Continue Reading

• Liquidware

  Liquidware is a company that provides monitoring and management software for physical, virtual and cloud desktop deployments.Continue Reading

• Journey to the center of a successful VDI project plan

  Not all VDI projects turn out to be winners. Stay on the good side of a VDI deployment by creating a strong plan and using a pilot for testing, with a focus on user experience.Continue Reading

• How to gain VDI support from users and decision-makers

  VDI can help IT with mobile workers, contract workers and data control, but to get a project off the ground, it needs to communicate the benefits to users and decision-makers.Continue Reading

• Citrix App Layering (formerly Citrix AppDisk)

  Citrix App Layering, formerly Citrix AppDisk, is a tool that delivers applications in layers independently from the virtual desktop operating system.Continue Reading

• VMware UEM (User Environment Manager)

  VMware User Environment Manager is software that IT professionals can use to configure and deploy employees' desktop computer settings.Continue Reading

• Citrix Cloud

  Citrix Cloud is a workspace management tool IT can use to deliver resources, including virtual desktops and apps, to users from a public or private cloud, on-premises deployment, or all three.Continue Reading

• app virtualization (application virtualization)

  App virtualization (application virtualization) is the separation of an installation of an application from the client computer that is accessing it.Continue Reading

• Customize desktops with application virtualization tools

  With application virtualization tools, IT can deliver some of the customization users desire, even in nonpersistent VDI deployments.Continue Reading

• How does app layering work with nonpersistent desktops?

  One of the big drawbacks of nonpersistent VDI is that users get no personalization. App layering can change that by keeping the apps separate from the OS itself.Continue Reading

• published applications

  Published applications are virtual software programs that function as if they were installed locally.Continue Reading

• virtual desktop

  A virtual desktop is a computer operating system that does not run directly on the endpoint hardware from which a user accesses it.Continue Reading

• Understand the principles of data residency

  IT administrators should assess data residency on a case by case basis. That means understanding how the concept has changed and how it works in the cloud.Continue Reading

• How to create personal virtual desktops with nonpersistent VDI

  User personalization can be hard for IT to deliver on nonpersistent virtual desktops. Layering VDI can provide the perfect amount of customization and security.Continue Reading

• How to implement a Windows 10 virtual license for desktops

  When it comes to licensing Windows 10 virtual desktops, things can get complicated. Use these tips to make the process run smoothly.Continue Reading

• How does Citrix XenDesktop licensing work?

  Licensing is a key component to virtual desktop infrastructure. Citrix XenDesktop provides businesses with the option of user or device specific models.Continue Reading

• Citrix Secure Browser

  Citrix Secure Browser is virtualization software that allows web applications to run in incompatible browsers.Continue Reading

• Citrix Receiver

  Citrix Receiver is a suite of products that allows client devices to connect to various desktop virtualization services offered by Citrix.Continue Reading

• Pick from three top virtual application delivery options

  VDI, DaaS and RDSH have their places in the enterprise. DaaS, for example, is ideal for organizations with a tight budget. IT admins must know which is best for their companies.Continue Reading

• Ready to put a VDI project plan in place? Take this quiz to prove it

  VDI projects can fail easily. See how well you're prepared for VDI with this quiz, which asks about how to track user experience, what makes a successful pilot program and more.Continue Reading

• Best of Citrix Synergy 2017 Awards: Rules and criteria

  Get all the information you need about the Best of Citrix Synergy 2017 Awards, which will be announced in an awards ceremony.Continue Reading

• Four questions to ask before choosing virtual or web-based apps

  Picking between virtual or web-based apps is complex. It comes down to key factors such as what types of apps IT must deliver and what features users need to get their jobs done.Continue Reading

• How to make your VDI project plan a winner

  VDI can simplify life for IT admins, but they must plan the project out from the pilot phase through implementation. Keeping unexpected cost and complexity in mind is critical.Continue Reading

• Glassware 2.0

  Glassware 2.0 is an application virtualization tool IT admins can use to containerize legacy apps and deliver them to users on newer operating systems.Continue Reading

• VMware Blast Extreme

  VMware Blast Extreme is a remote display protocol designed to deliver graphics-intensive virtual workloads using the H.264 advanced video compression standard.Continue Reading

• VDI monitoring tools are crucial to the end-user experience

  A few performance hiccups are all it takes for users to lose their cool with VDI. Fortunately, VDI monitoring tools can help IT pinpoint and fix issues.Continue Reading

• Understand the basics of VMware Blast Extreme vs. PCoIP

  For years PCoIP has been the go-to remote display protocol for View shops, but VMware's in-house protocol, Blast Extreme, is ready to take over.Continue Reading

• Workspot belongs in the second tier of VDI platforms

  Workspot's VDI 2.0 platform puts it squarely in the desktop virtualization market game. The company has come a long way since its early days.Continue Reading

• How EMM tools can complement VDI

  Many organizations that support mobile users are adopting EMM tools. EMM can also help manage smartphones and tablets that access virtual desktops.Continue Reading

• How to support Microsoft's Skype for Business tool on virtual desktops

  Skype for Business is finally viable for VDI shops. Find out why unified communications apps are tough to support on virtual desktops and how Microsoft fixed the issues.Continue Reading

• How to deliver Linux desktops using VMware Horizon

  VMware added support for Linux VDI in Horizon View 6.1. It still has some work to do to match the functionality of Windows desktop virtualization.Continue Reading

• Four valuable Citrix HDX protocol features

  Citrix HDX protocol allows VDI shops to deliver HD quality virtual desktops and apps to users. It combines data deduplication, mobile SDKs, USB redirection and more.Continue Reading

• application layering (app layering)

  Application layering is a technology that delivers individual apps or groups of apps in layers distributed to users' virtual desktops at login. This allows IT to manage and update apps and base images separately.Continue Reading

• How application layering reinvents remote app delivery

  VDI shops don't need to install applications within virtual desktops for apps to interact with the host operating system. Instead, they can deliver and manage applications separately using app layering.Continue Reading