Unidesk Blogs

VMworld Fun and Attendee Reactions to Unidesk VDI Layering Technology
by Tom Rose on Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 8:00 PM 0 comments, 1112 views

Yesterday, I blogged about our customers’ participation in the Unidesk booth at VMworld 2011, and the broad vendor ecosystem represented by their VDI implementations. But it wasn’t all work and no play. Come on, we were in Las Vegas, after all!

Tuesday night, we held our first customer appreciation dinner at Voodoo Steak, high atop the Rio hotel and casino.

After enjoying the great view of...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customers, desktop layering, vmworld
Thanks to Our VDI Customers for an Awesome VMworld!
by Tom Rose on Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:30 PM 1 comment, 1060 views

Re-learned a rookie lesson on the way home from VMworld 2011 Las Vegas: don’t take a nap before getting on a red-eye - you won’t sleep on the plane. But it did give me the chance to blog Unidesk’s experience and thank 10 of our customers for helping staff our booth!

This was our second year sponsoring VMworld. Last year at VMworld 2010, we had just released Unidesk 1.0, and many IT organizations...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customers, desktop layering, profile management, vmware view, vmworld
Out on a Limb with Virtual Desktops – What’s in it for You?
by Andrew Nadeau on Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:49 PM 0 comments, 892 views

This blog post was also published on VMware's End User Computing Blog.

Guest Blog Post (Part 2 of a 3 part series)
By Raechelle Clemmons, CIO, Menlo College

There’s no question that virtual desktops can deliver a lot of advantages to those in charge of managing IT on campus. We’re certainly seeing our share of value here at Menlo College, where we’re reducing the operational costs of desktop...

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged menlo college, persistent virtual desktop, raechelle clemmons, vdi in education
VDI Deployment Lessons Learned and Best Practices from Unidesk Customer
by Andrew Nadeau on Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM 0 comments, 3686 views

Last week, Unidesk and VMware View customer State of Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities returned to the spotlight to provide a status update on their virtual desktop deployment - 1,500 users across all use cases. This is the fifth time we've had a customer share their story, and each time we've made small tweaks to the presentation format based on feedback we've received from attendees....

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Posted in The Lay of the VDI Landscape
Tagged customer webinar, Ohio DODD
Congrats to Citrix… Welcome to layering… uh, well, congrats on having A Layer.
by Ron Oglesby on Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:00 AM 9 comments, 4013 views

Wednesday at 4PM Eastern Citrix announced it had acquired Ringcube. I will talk geek here in a minute, but this was probably one of the worst kept secrets in the VDI world in the last year or so. Brian Madden had an article a week ago about a possible acquisition. And he mentioned HOW he figured it out in his Live radio show.

Of course once it was announced twitter lit up for those of us in ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged Layering, ringcube, vdi
Using PowerShell for Advanced Domain Join Operations (Good for persistent VDI images)
by Ron Oglesby on Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:00 AM 0 comments, 2854 views

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 ...

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Posted in Ron’s Politically Incorrect VDI Blog
Tagged domain join, virtual desktop management, windows 7