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Posted by: Chris Caldwell, 5/22/2012

Microsoft and Citrix Relationship Manager, Jamie Schmidtke joins us on today’s show as we talk about how the two tech giants have teamed up to provide the best in class solutions for their customers and end-users. Tune in as we discuss private and public cloud technologies as well as virtualization ... More...

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Posted by: Chris Caldwell, 5/25/2011

Its IT Time and in this episode Blain Barton and John Baker, welcome Jon Rolls, Vice-President of Product Management for Desktop Virtualization at Quest Software. Listen in as they chat about the consumerization of IT from a Virtual Desktop perspective, how to extend Microsoft VDI, Terminal Server a... More...

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Posted by: Chris Caldwell, 8/17/2010

Explore the importance of application compatibility in a successful Windows 7 deployment. In this video, you'll learn about potential driver and application issues, then how to evaluate the compatibility of your applications using tools like the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit and Mi... More...

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Posted by: Yung Chou, 1/14/2010

This is a follow-up posting and a continual discussion of desktop virtualization and Remote Desktop Services (RDS) relevant to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 (WS2008R2). I highly recommend that those who are not familiar with RDS, take a moment to review the architecture and know what role RDW... More...

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Posted by: Yung Chou, 1/13/2010

In Windows Server 2008 R2 (WS2008R2), Terminal Services (TS) has been expanded and has been renamed to Remote Desktop Services (RDS). The new and enhanced architecture takes advantage of virtualization and makes remote access a very flexible solution with new deployment scenarios. To realize the cap... More...

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Posted by: Yung Chou, 1/7/2010

One focus of MED-V V1 SP1 is to expand support platforms to include Windows 7 (x86 and x64) as a host. This screencast demonstrates running a MED-V workspace using a V1 SP1 client in the Windows 7 environment. In V1 SP1, MED-V continues to employ Virtual PC 2007 as the virtualization vehicle to run ... More...

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Posted by: Yung Chou, 10/29/2009

Since the last month, while delivering Windows 7 Launch Events, I have realized how strong the interests on Windows XP Mode (XP Mode) is out there, how much IT Pro want to know more about it, and how many questions are being asked again and again. So I thought to put together something concise and y... More...

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Posted by: Yung Chou, 10/21/2009

The traditional desktop computing model, as shown in Fig. 1, has been one where the operating system, applications, and user data and settings are bonded to a single computer. We will buy a computer either with OS and some applications pre-installed, or apply a hard disk image with targeted OS and s... More...

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Posted by: Alan Le Marquand, 9/16/2009

The question posed in part 1 was Is the cost of ownership of your Microsoft client systems rising? Are you looking for ways to reduce the costs associated with deploying Windows and managing it thereafter? There are two solutions available to help combat these costs. The first post covered deploying... More...

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Posted by: Yung Chou, 9/8/2009

In TechNet Game-On Tour currently being delivered in the US east coast, I talked about Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and got very overwhelming response. It’s indeed an exciting feeling when witnessing desktop virtualization works in a predictable way and beha... More...

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