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by Rob Zylowski on Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 9:45 AM 0 comments, 272 views

There are lots of products out there that help to manage desktops. These products can provide really important information including performance data, hardware and software inventory, as well as alerting for low disk, or a runaway processes. In a VDI environment running on vSphere you will already have much of this information from vSphere itself. VDI desktops are all standard for hardware so you ...

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by Ron Oglesby on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM 0 comments, 328 views

On-Demand Webinar: Remote Office/Branch Office VDI: How One Local Government Agency Did It
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In last week's blog I talked a little bit about the problems remote / branch offices can cause for VDI projects.  The technological problems with these remote offices tend to be based on the fact that the office is somewhat independent and has been designed...

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by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:30 PM 0 comments, 537 views

On-Demand Webinar: Remote Office/Branch Office VDI: How One Local Government Agency Did It
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One of the complexities people often run into when deploying virtual desktops is how to handle remote office desktops. It seems like these remote offices should be a no-brainer, but they generally are some of the most problematic environments out there. In this...

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by Ron Oglesby on Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:00 PM 12 comments, 2058 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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by Ron Oglesby on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:00 AM 0 comments, 973 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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by Ron Oglesby on Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:00 AM 0 comments, 1048 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 first in a series of articles about auto-update functionality in commonly used applications.

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