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At VMware’s VMworld 2011 conference in August, VMware announced the forthcoming release of VMware View 5. At the same time, thin client vendor Wyse made this announcement, saying that their thin client devices will have “Day One” support for VMware View 5 upon release: Wyse Announces Day One Support for VMware View 5 at VMworld …
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It’s finally time for me to stop using Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player. I can no longer tolerate the security vulnerabilities I’m annoyed by the updates I typically can’t use either on my smart phone anyway (and don’t mind) And mostly, there are smaller and more secure substitutes The best tool is Google Chrome, …
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After months of preparation, testing, and teamwork; today I rolled out my first VMware View and VMware ThinApp deployment for Riverview Hospital. The deployment consists of three offsite locations, about 85 virtual desktops, about 100 printers, and about 20 ThinApp applications. Although I had help from many team members, the engineering and implementation of this …
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BgInfo is a free tool from Microsoft that automatically generates desktop backgrounds that include important information about the system like its IP addresses, host name, boot time, and so on. This article explains how I am using BgInfo in a virtual desktop environment (VDI) and how it helps our hospital’s help desk support end users. …
There are many ways for a system administrator to deploy software to computers on a domain. This post describes how to create a Group Policy that will deploy a Scheduled Task to your target machines that will run a batch file to perform the installation. You might ask why I would bother with a Scheduled …
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