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Installing VMware Horizon View Security Server

Securing a VMware Horizon View environment is one of the major requirements most organizations have in configuring VMware Horizon...
Connect VMware Horizon to vCenter Server

In this post, we take a look at how to connect VMware Horizon to vCenter Server. This includes accepting...
Creating VMware Horizon View desktop pools

This article looks at how to create VMware Horizon View desktop pools and entitlements that allow end users to...
VMware Horizon View VDI overview

Excerpt: VMware Horizon View is a powerful virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) platform. In this post, we take a look...
What’s new in Parallels Remote Application Server 16

Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) is a virtual application and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution that allows users to...
Parallels Remote Application Server v15 – Admin-friendly VDI and application deployment

Many Windows systems administrators know that using Parallels for their desktop hypervisor allows Mac users to run Windows-based virtual...
MDOP 2015 review – Windows 10 support and four service packs

Windows 10 may be getting all of the attention, but the new management tools are what really excite administrators!...
Install Docker on Windows

Docker is an open-source application deployment solution that might play an important role in the Windows world soon. In...
What’s new with MDOP 2014 R2 – Big changes with virtualization!

Microsoft just released the R2 update for MDOP 2014. The big updates were for App-V and UE-V. When combined,...
MDOP 2014 brings upgrades to App-V and BitLocker management

Microsoft has updated the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. The 2014 update brings improvements to App-V and some big changes...
Amazon releases WorkSpaces along with massive AWS price reductions

Amazon announced the general availability of their VDI service, Amazon WorkSpaces, and it is not just a public beta;...
Why VMware Horizon DaaS did not beat Amazon WorkSpaces

VMware announced VMware Horizon DaaS as a service. Brian Madden believes that the new offering beats Amazon WorkSpaces. I...
Amazon WorkSpaces – Administration

In today’s post of my WorkSpaces series, I will show you what administration tasks await you if your organization...
Amazon WorkSpaces – User experience

In the last post of my WorkSpaces review, I gave a general overview of Amazon’s new DaaS. Today, I...
Learn how you can virtualize Office 2013 Professional Plus and other Volume License editions in this App-V 5.0 SP2...
Comprehensive App-V SP2 guide about client operations

Microsoft published a comprehensive guide for their application virtualization solution that is a must-read for every App-V admin.
What’s new in MDOP 2013 R2

The Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) might seem like an oddball collection of products at first glance. But let...
How to troubleshoot RDS & XenApp CPU bottlenecks
It might be surprising, but even with today’s modern server hardware, super-fast CPU’s and all the great virtualization features,...
App-V 5 and Office 2013 – Part 4: Deployment

Our final post of our App-V 5 series will cover client deployment, Group Policy management, and application publishing.