Microsoft’s VDI solution offers two deployment scenarios: virtual desktop pools and personal virtual desktops. Virtual desktop pools are not dependent on a specific Active Directory schema level; however, personal virtual desktops do need a Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2 schema. Here are the Active Directory requirements for personal virtual desktops: To deploy personal virtual desktops, your schema
Choosing a thin client OS for your desktop virtualization deployment can be tricky. Windows embedded thin clients offer the latest features, but they cost more and have additional security implications and maintenance compared to Linux based thin clients. Wyse ThinOS clients are often easier to secure and manage than Linux clients, but often lag in features. This has changed with the use
The white paper, RD Session Host Capacity Planning in Windows Server 2008 R2, is now live on the Download Center. This white paper describes the most relevant factors that influence the capacity of a given deployment, methodologies to evaluate capacity for specific deployments, and a set of experimental results for different combinations of usage scenarios and hardware configurations.
The Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (Microsoft VDI) involves multiple role services. To develop a true high availability solution for this setup, you need to understand the high availability solution for each role service. This blog post identifies the key pieces of the Microsoft VDI solution and provides details on the high availability options available. Key Microsoft role services that should
The full release version of the Windows Server 2008 R2 Migration Utilities is now available. The update allows you to use the Windows Server Migration Tools-a set of Windows PowerShell cmdlets that shipped with Windows Server 2008 R2- to migrate Hyper-V and RRAS. And the detailed guides that take you through Hyper-V and RRAS migration, one step at a time, are
The Solution Accelerator team has released an updated guide: Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.6. This free guide, now updated for App-V 4.6, provides actionable guidance for planning your application virtualization infrastructure. With App-V, your organization can respond to the complex challenge of managing applications. This guide simplifies your App-V planning process. Updates now include information on how App-V supports Windows 7
The documentation for Application Virtualization 4.6 is now available on the App-V TechCenter Library at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc843848.aspx. In addition to the App-V 4.6 feature information, in this documentation release App-v Team added a new Getting Started Guide which contains the Release Notes as well as the detailed procedures for installing and upgrading the system. New Deployment and Upgrade Checklists have also
Microsoft just announced that App-V 4.6 is now publicly available via MDOP 2010! In the update to the App-V Resource Kit, Microsoft are announcing two new tools for you. Application Virtualization SFT View Tool Use the SFT View Tool to provide scanners and automated tools with read-only access to .sft files. For example, you can install SFT View on App-V Management Servers
Citrix published a new architecture blueprint for its VDI platform XenDesktop. The 38-pages document provides guidance to design scalable virtual desktop infrastructures based on Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005, Citrix Provisioning Server 5.1 and of course XenDesktop 4.0 (which includes the hypervisor and XenApp 5). For more information, go to http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX124087
With the growing trend toward desktop virtualization, it is Microsoft’s goal to provide enterprises with a flexible model for centralized computing, whereby the broadest range of client devices can help securely access company data and applications from any location on the network. As with Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2008 R2, virtual machine-based desktop virtualization faces increasing performance challenges
