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RemoteApp for Hyper-V (VDI) Deployment
mar 9
Similar to RemoteApp, the RemoteApp for Hyper-V feature allows users to access a specific hosted application remotely, as opposed to the entire desktop. When using RemoteApp, the application runs in the context of a server session; however, RemoteApp for Hyper-V enables remote access to an application running on a Hyper-V virtual [...]
Active Directory Schema Requirements for Personal Virtual Desktops
mar 9
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 [...]
Microsoft VDI – High Availability Deployment Options
mar 2
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 [...]
VIDEO: How to Install MS VDI on as Single Server using Windows 7 Guests
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Microsoft published a video about installing a complete MS VDI solution and how many servers does it take. Video showcases that you can setup a complete solution including backend, broker, and web publishing to provide virtualized clients on a single physical Windows Server 2008 R2 box. This sample uses Windows 7 for the guest. The complete 16 [...]
Virtual Desktop Pool
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Scenario
The two virtual machine deployment scenarios supported by the Microsoft VDI solution are: 1) Virtual desktop pool and 2) Personal virtual desktops. These two scenarios present two different models of assigning virtual machines to end users. This post explains the virtual desktop pool scenario.
Assignment
A virtual desktop pool temporarily assigns a virtual machine to the user. [...]
Whitepaper: High Availability for Desktop Virtualization with Citrix XenDesktop 4.0
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Citrix hase realese another interesting document about Desktop Virtualization based on XenDesktop 4.0.
This, titled High Availability for Desktop Virtualization – Reference Architecture, is an architectural blueprint to build an end-to-end environment that is fault tolerant at several levels: at the virtual desktop hosting platform (aka the hypervisor) one, at the guest operating system delivery one [...]
Deploying Windows Vista or Windows XP as the guest operating system in a Virtual Machine
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Overview
The purpose of this post is to help an Administrator configure a Windows Vista or Windows XP operating system in a virtual machine for a Remote Desktop Services Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployment.
This post is an addendum to the Step 2: Installing and Configuring the Virtual Machine section for the following Step-by-Step guides published in [...]