Blogs tagged "virtual desktop management"

This is a guest post written by Rob Zylowski (a Unidesk Sr. Solution Architect) based on customer needs to have Windows Mini-Setup do domain joins to different OU's without modifying the Windows 7 Unattend.xml. 

Wow a guest gig on Ron’s “Politically Incorrect Blog”.  I am not sure I am worthy or politically incorrect but hopefully those of you out there that are working to make ...

One of the things I like to use with Windows 7 sysprep/mini-setup type builds is a post build configuration script called setupcomplete.cmd.  This was put in specifically (by MS) to run post build/install script to handle any non-out of the box configurations you may want on the desktops.

The process for using this script is simple. After the last boot in the Windows mini-setup process Windows...

I’m preparing a presentation for BriForum Europe (going on in London in a couple of weeks) about living without registry hacks in your image. The idea is that you should be using GPOs to configure your desktops and NOT hacking the gold image.

There is a reason that IT guys often refer to registry edits as “registry hacks”. I mean: you are basically brute forcing a change with a simple...

Yesterday we resolved an “issue” that made me think about the new groups of people coming into VDI and the common practice of OS tweaking.  One of the things we do by default, as ‘VDI guys’, is tweak the OS or gold image used in our VDI environments to try to increase density or performance.  What we often don’t think about is that these OS changes are generally not documented ...

Back in the late ‘90s and even into the 00’s I lived in a world of user configuration. Any Citrix guy dealing with Terminal Servers had a directory full of scripts, tricks and hacks. These little tricks of the trade would allow us to completely customize their user’s desktop environment right at first login from background colors and Outlook profiles, to setting up application specific settings...

Today we were having a discussion with a customer about virtual desktops and what defines success in a VDI implementation. It came down to this: basically a complete VDI solution must allow for simple and scalable management of the environment, personalization of the desktops deployed, and minimal use of storage to keep the cost low enough to be palatable.

At this point my brain flashed to that old...

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of visiting with Steve Duplessie, founder of Enterprise Strategy Group, a highly-regarded analyst firm and trusted advisor to its clients on all things related to IT infrastructure, and Mark Bowker, ESG's primary virtualization analyst.

Steve and Mark were two of the first briefed on Unidesk over a year ago, back when PowerPoint slides communicated our vision of providing...

If you’re an IT organization looking to get educated on desktop virtualization and can’t figure out what any of us vendors are really building or how we fit in the big picture, Briforum is a great place to learn.

Not big or glitzy, it offers a variety of informal, deeply technical, and highly interactive sessions. Contrary to what we're used to, within the first 5 minutes of a Briforum...

It was great to hear the news from Citrix Synergy that XenClient, Citrix's Type 1 hypervisor being built in partnership with Intel, will be offered free of charge.

Back when the news of the Citrix/Intel relationship and Project Independence (the code name for XenClient) first broke, we agreed with the experts who said embedding the bare-metal client hypervisor in the chip would accelerate mainstream...