Let’s start the year with a recap of the articles I wrote in 2017. In 2017 I wrote a number of articles that ended up in a series and there were a lot of articles about a range of topics. So let’s give an overview.
Tuning Windows 10 for VDI series
I wrote a series on tuning Windows 10. The last part, part 4, was written yesterday. Windows 10 was rather new in virtual environments and a lot was unknown in that field. We were deploying Windows 10 at customer and in a lab and thought it was a good idea to share our knowledge.
- Tuning Microsoft Windows 10 Part 0: Which version/build do I use
- Tuning Microsoft Windows 10 for VDI; Part 1, creating the virtual machine
- Tuning Microsoft Windows 10 for VDI; Part 2, installing Windows 10
- Tuning Microsoft Windows 10 for VDI; Part3, services and scheduled tasks
- Tuning Windows 10 for VDI: Part 4, Deploying the golden image
- Tuning Microsoft Windows 10 for VDI: Part 5, Resource usage through the roof, new guidelines are needed
Windows 10 is evolving and things change. If you deploy Windows 10 take a look at what is changed before you go into production. There could be new services added not described here.
Securing your workspace series
At the technical conference, vEUCTechCon, that we organized with a couple of IT guys I presented about security and the workspace. This series is about that session.
- Securing the workspace, part I: chasing bad versus ensuring good
- Securing the Workspace Part 2: A few security basics for your Workspace
- Securing the Workspace part 3: How UEM can assist in securing your Workspace
Security-related
- Data protection laws in action, Microsoft breaches law with Windows 10
- Company sponsored shadow IT; (BYO) USB stick to share company data
- GDPR: Not a software solution but a data management plan executed
- Citrix Analytics services, much need insight into behaviour of users and applications
Acquisitions
For a blogger, nothing can be more fun than hearing about an acquisition. Even more, fun when you hear some of that info before others do. So I heard some news through the grapevine and decided to write about it. My guess was right.
- Breaking Workspace News: Ivanti acquires RES Software
- Citrix acquiring Unidesk kicks out Citrix AppDisk and fixes Citrix PVS image management
VMware Related
- VMware Workspace ONE; how to configure SSO for Amazon Web Services
- Setup Commander new Feature: Manage VMware AirWatch deployed Windows apps
- VMware partners with FRAME to deliver apps with Workspace ONE App Express
- VMware Horizon 7.2: New kid; Blast (Extreme) is the rising star
- Helpdesk functionality added to VMware Horizon 7.2
- VMware protocols, Blast vs HTML access vs PCoIP, real-life scenario
- How to: Load balance your VMware Horizon view environment with Kemp Load balancers
- VMware Access Point (Unified Access Gateway) Experiences from the field
- How to recover your VMware Horizon view environment when someone killed the vCenter database
- Deploy and configure VMware Access Point with the GUI
- VMware VCP7-DTM Exam preparation guide
- VMware Horizon 7.1 introduces JIT for Apps, vGPU for instant clones and more
Citrix related
- Citrix Local host Cache; connection leasing 2.0 or…
- Citrix login simulator; What are vendors bringing to market? A comparison white paper in a nutshell
- Get that Citrix Receiver an account is not configured pop-up of my screen
- Citrix acquiring Unidesk kicks out Citrix AppDisk and fixes Citrix PVS image management
- Citrix Insight service: TaaS and Scout, reporting feature and feature request
- Citrix Analytics services, much need insight in behaviour of users and applications
- Citrix Director 7: Feature requests; Database design and Provisioning versioning
- NVIDIA M60 for Citrix XenDesktop; licensing issues due to MAC address change
Monitoring
- Goliath Technologies Availability Monitor renewed; A first look
- Savision IQ; Aggregate monitoring data from different sources (+ natural search capabilities)
- Select your monitoring solution with this easy scorecard
- Goliath Technologies redesigns dashboards and improves monitoring your Citrix environment
