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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
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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
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
Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan)
Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a tool that allows information technology (IT) administrators to organize, group and control remote desktop connections.Continue Reading
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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
GPU (graphics processing unit)
A graphics processing unit (GPU) is a computer chip that performs rapid mathematical calculations, primarily for the purpose of rendering images.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
Citrix XenApp
Citrix XenApp is an application virtualization product that extends Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host desktop sessions and apps to users via the Citrix HDX protocol. It can run on Citrix XenServer or other server virtualization platforms.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
How to set up an IT disaster recovery plan for VDI
VDI shops should keep a few key considerations in mind when planning for virtual desktop disaster recovery, such as which applications are most important to business operations.Continue Reading
Converged and hyper-converged Infrastructure for VDI
Using converged and hyper-converged infrastructure for desktop virtualization can reduce hardware compatibility problems and ease management. Converged infrastructure gives IT shops the opportunity to buy their entire hardware stack all at once. ...Continue Reading
How hyper-converged infrastructure platforms support VDI
Converged infrastructure gives IT shops the opportunity to buy their entire hardware stack -- storage, networking, compute and server virtualization -- in one SKU. They can also add a software management layer and tightly integrate those components ...Continue Reading
VMware Horizon Client
VMware Horizon Client is software that IT or users install on endpoint devices to connect with Horizon View virtual desktops and applications running on vSphere ESXi servers in a company's data center.Continue Reading
Raspberry Pi thin client devices are finally viable for the enterprise
Citrix partnered with Raspberry Pi to create minimal-cost thin clients optimized for the HDX remote display protocol, providing a new way to lower the price of XenApp and XenDesktop deployments.Continue Reading
How Liquidware Labs FlexApp tackles application layering
For all the security and management benefits of delivering applications rather than full virtual desktops, it can often cause too much app isolation. FlexApp tries to find a balance between IT's competing interests.Continue Reading