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• 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

• Deliver desktop and app virtualization for 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

• Definitions to Get Started

  • eG Innovations
  • Lakeside Software
  • Microsoft UE-V (User Experience Virtualization)
  • ControlUp

  • Citrix XenDesktop
  • user environment management (UEM)
  • VMware vRealize Operations for Horizon
  • Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

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• 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