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VDI Customer Stories from the New England VMUG Winter Warmer 2012
by Andrew Nadeau about 2 days ago (Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM) 0 comments, 7 views

Another year, another New England VMUG at Gillette Stadium. Last year the mood at Gillette was a little different. The Patriots were coming off of a shellacking from their rivals the New York Jets. This year the atmosphere was dramatically different. The Patriots had just put an end to Tebow-mania with a defeat over the Denver Broncos and were set to play the Baltimore Ravens at home for the AFC Championship...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged new england vmug
Can’t ThinApp or App-V Dragon Naturally Speaking for VDI? Layer It!
by Tom Rose about 3 days ago (Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 9:00 AM) 0 comments, 183 views

Unidesk is starting to be adopted in healthcare because VDI admins are finding it easier to package and deliver apps with our layering technology than with app virtualization. I was just at a Boston-area hospital that’s implementing virtual desktops for a new wing. They don’t know if they’re going with Citrix XenDesktop or VMware View yet, but they’ve already purchased Unidesk as their desktop...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged virtualizing Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Unidesk Adopts a Northborough Family for the Holidays
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:54 AM 0 comments, 313 views

This year Unidesk is going to make Christmas very special for a local family that has fallen on tough times. In the spirit of giving, we adopted a family in Northborough for the holiday season.  Everyone in the company pitched in to buy gifts on the family’s wish list. Through the generosity of everyone, we were able to buy every gift on their list as well as wrapping paper and $400 in gift...

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Posted in Life @Unidesk
Tagged helping hands, unidesk culture, unidesk culture
How to Operationalize Desktop Support with Unidesk Desktop Management for VDI
by Andrew Nadeau on Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:30 AM 0 comments, 368 views

How does a city with 1,300 user accounts and 800 desktops streamline their service desk by moving to virtual desktops?

With a majority of their desktops over five years old and an understaffed service desk, this was exactly the question that James Hettrick, Technical Services Manager at City of Kent set out to answer.

Some of the key insight James Hettrick shared during the webinar included how ...

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Posted in Almost Famous
Tagged city of kent, customer webinar
Adjusting VMware View’s PCoIP for video intense applications
by Ron Oglesby on Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:00 PM 4 comments, 1002 views

Last week a Unidesk customer emailed us asking about poor performance in an Auto-CAD application on a PCoIP thin client. Everything else in the desktop seemed fine except this application. I then received an email from a customer asking how to improve video (like Youtube) in their View/Unidesk environment (when it rains it pours right?).

We knew there were adjustments that could be made to PCoIP ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged AutoCAD, PCoIP, vdi, Video
How to Disable Firefox Auto Updates
by Ron Oglesby on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM 0 comments, 420 views

When packaging an application in Unidesk or any other software distribution technology commonly used in virtual desktops (think ThinApp and AppV here) you generally will need to disable any auto-update functionality in the application to ensure the package is updated by IT and not the end-user. This is a second in a series of articles about auto-update functionality in commonly used applications. ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged Application, Firefox, vdi