With Windows Azure Virtual Desktop (WVD) Microsoft has started recognizing app and desktop virtualization as a viable strategy for end-user computing. At the moment, there are at least twenty other virtual desktop provider businesses in the market. Compared to this, Microsoft is rather a later entrant in the game of cloud virtual desktops and apps. […]

Profile Management or managing the what, when, why, who and how of users is not a fun-game. It had always remained a serious issue, especially in virtualization or hosted desktop as a service landscape. Despite the available tools including Microsoft’s roaming profiles, user profile disks, folder redirection and many third-party tools, none was without compromise. […]

In the present days of advanced digital transformation, we have started moving desktops to cloud in addition to migrating data and applications to the cloud. Not only it relieves you from rigid hardware dependency, reduced product lifecycles; you benefit from the security, scalability and easy deployment of Azure cloud desktop platform, Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). […]

The purpose of this discussion is to give you an overview of Azure Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), its overall architecture, setup processes and above all, a general idea of what the platform looks like from the viewpoint of users and mainly administrators. Without getting into the details of uses, cost factors, other features (or comparisons) […]

With the roll-out of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) which is a hosted desktop as a service, the common question that keeps coming is the difference between Azure Remote Desktop Session Hosts (RDS) vs WVD and which one to choose. Here we will take you through the broad technicalities, how WVD relates to RDS, the benefits, […]

Managing a virtual desktop deployment is not always easy; the same could be the Windows 10 Virtual Desktop management. Setting up a Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) tenant could be challenging if you are not comfortable with writing the PowerShell scripts. We will take you through the management tools available for Windows Virtual Desktop (without using […]

January 14, 2020, will bid farewell to Windows 7 “free security updates”. With Windows 7 support to end, what it means is, it will be prone to attacks without the latest security solutions guarding the vulnerable elements. However, if you are a Windows 7 user, no need to panic with the end of Windows 7 […]