If you’re going to be at TechEd North America next week, stop by and say hello. I’ll be manning the Microsoft Windows 7 & MDOP booth on Tue morning and then presenting on Group Policy and VDI on Thursday afternoon. That session will cover some of the things you can do with Group Policy to optimize VDI deployments as well as things to avoid when using GP to manage VDI-based desktops. Hope to…
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iPads in the Enterprise—running Windows
Saw this site put up by Citrix today–www.ipadsatwork.com. I thought it was an interesting approach–pitching iPads in the enterprise by making the iPad a glorified dumb terminal, via the Citrix Receiver, for accessing your Windows desktop and apps. While I agree that this overcomes a lot of challenges around managing iPads on enterprise networks, it sort of ignores the elephant in t…
VDI Skepticism
In a bit of a departure from my normal Group Policy banter, I wanted to talk a little bit about VDI, or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. Like most things around virtualization, there’s a ton of hype about the promise of virtualizing desktops. Companies are starting to deploy VDI in real production environments. Its by no means the majority of new desktop deployments, but as with any new…
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