Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a hot topic, with solutions from Microsoft, Citrix and VMware leading the way. But what is it and how do application virtualisation (App-V, XenApp, ThinApp), brokers and remote protocols fit in?
Tag archives: Windows
Clients for Office Communications Server
A quick guide to the OCS clients available for Windows, Apple Mac, iPhone, Java phones (Nokia, Motorola) and Blackberry
Federating Windows 7 Search with SharePoint
Ian over at WSSDemo has put up some sample code for federating your Windows 7 Search with SharePoint. Given how quickly SharePoint is spreading throughout businesses I can see this being very useful indeed, especially as it includes file preview.
Virtualisation eLearning
With all the recent virtualisation launches from MS (App-V 4.5 and Hyper-V Server 2008) I’ve been doing a bit more reading on the subject over the last few days. I’ve always used various flavours of VMWare in the past so I thought I’d better catch up with whats going on on the MS side of …
Apple Mac’s in Active Directory
I just found this pretty good video on the apple site describing – at a high level – Mac integration with Active Directory. http://seminars.apple.com/seminarsonline/activedir/apple/ For someone from a Windows background (like me) it’s worth a look. It’s also interesting to see the difference in style between the Apple and MS. Given the brand personas of …