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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton finds that Windows IoT Enterprise works fine as a base OS to run a thin client used to connect to a VDI desktop and a local desktop using RDP.
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By Tom Fenton
Tasked with rolling out virtual desktops to remote users with a new thin client, Tom discovers it runs Windows 11 IoT Enterprise. So what's that?
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton, needing warranty information for hundreds of Intel NUC systems used as thin clients to connect to VMware Horizon virtual desktops, finds the Linux command dmidecode to be a powerful tool.
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By Tom Fenton
The marquee feature in Windows 365 Frontline, now in public preview, allowing each Frontline license purchased to have up to three users access the Cloud PC, albeit not at the same time.
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By Tom Fenton
"If you have a business that has seasonal spikes, DaaS makes a lot of sense."
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton takes a look at Microsoft's Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS), which provides desktops that run in the cloud and which are managed and administrated by the cloud provider.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously showing how to install the new offering, Tom puts it through its paces and shares his thoughts.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously providing an overview of the new features included with Horizon 2111, released last month, Tom takes a deeper dive.
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By Tom Fenton
See what four features piqued Tom's interest in the new Extended Service Branch (ESB) Maintenance Release.
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By Tom Fenton
In demonstrating some monitoring software, Tom needed to replicate a slow network that was being used in a VDI environment. Here's how he did it.
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By Tom Fenton
After previously installing Linux on VMs in three systems, Tom installs the VMware Horizon native client on them to see how they perform.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom shows how to install Ubuntu 20.04 on a wide range of systems, install the Horizon native client and use the systems to connect to remote desktops.
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By Tom Fenton
After earlier detailing how to use a .bat file to launch the Horizon client to a Horizon desktop and then adding start-up functionality to the taskbar and Start menu, Tom Fenton turns to Linux.
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By Tom Fenton
After earlier showing how to launch the Horizon Client to a Horizon desktop using a .bat file, Tom explores what else can be done with it.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton started this four-part series because he was interested in the Oracle Cloud's new ability to offer Arm-based compute instances, but limited "Always Free" capacity leads to disappointment in the final installment.
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By Tom Fenton
VMware makes it possible to launch the Horizon client from the command line and specify the desired screen resolution.
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By Tom Fenton
Multimedia redirection can greatly increase the number of virtual desktops your VDI hosts can accommodate and lower the cost of your VDI environment.
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By Tom Fenton
Using MMR, a Unified Communications program runs on the VDI device instead of the ESXI host, increasing the guest density of the host and thus reducing the cost of running each virtual desktop.
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By Tom Fenton
After earlier detailing what's new in two Horizon updates, Tom Fenton takes a look at some of the changes included in v2106.
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By Tom Fenton
Tom Fenton highlights new features and functionality in the secure, multi-cloud desktop and app virtualization platform.