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VMware acquires RTO Software!
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 by Michel Roth
There were rumors before but now it is official! VMware has acquired RTO Software. RTO Software makes brilliant tools in the SBC / VDI space. Let's hope it stays that way!
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Windows Server 2008 R2 RDSH / TS Sizing Whitepaper
Monday, 15 February 2010 by Michel Roth
Microsoft has released a very decent whitepaper on the sizing guidelines of RDSH / TS in Windows Server 2008 R2. Funny enough it is not on the RDS blog (yet)
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RDP to VM directly from vSphere Client?
Tuesday, 02 February 2010 by Michel Roth
My colleague Rob Mallicoat pointed me to this cool tool by the clever folks over at xtravirt. It's a RDP Plugin for the vSphere client, allowing you to right-click and RDP to the VM from there. Cool! Free!
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VIDEO: How to Install MS VDI on as Single Server using Windows 7 Guests
Thursday, 28 January 2010 by Michel Roth

I've written about the new features of "Microsoft VDI" and how it works in the past. THis time around some at Microsoft created a video to show how everything is configured.

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Hosting 20 linked clones on SSD storage
Thursday, 28 January 2010 by Michel Roth

SSD is a subject of interest in today's and upcoming storage systems. The same goes for the no. of IOPS required for VDI solutions. This article discusses combining the both.

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Hyper-V Manager
Thursday, 28 January 2010 by Michel Roth
Hyper-V Manager is a free tool that sits in the System Tray that allows you to Start, Stop, Save State, and Pause the VMs running on the box.
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Microsoft to revise VECD licensing in 2010
Thursday, 28 January 2010 by Michel Roth
VECD is a much talked about subject in our business so when Microsoft ir rumored to change VECD it get's attention.
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RTO Software Releases RTO TScale 4.5
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 by Michel Roth
One of the oldest TS addon product is not dead but very much alive and kicking: RTO Software released RTO TScale 4.5.
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Are Mandatory User Profiles Deleted at Logoff – or Cached?
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 by Michel Roth
Helge Klein explores how Mandatory Profiles removal works in the newer versions of Windows.
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Using the RDS Application Compatibility Analyzer
Tuesday, 26 January 2010 by Michel Roth
The Remote Desktop Services (RDS) Application Compatibility Analyzer is a runtime program analysis tool that enables administrators and users to determine the compatibility of an application with a Remote Desktop Session Host (RD Session Host) server before deploying it. This is how to use it.
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Flash Acceleration in Quest vWorkspace
Thursday, 14 January 2010 by Michel Roth
This blog post is about a new feature in Quest vWorkspace 7.0 called Flash Acceleration. Flash Acceleration is a part of Quest EOP, a set of technologies built on top of Microsoft RDP aimed at providing a remote user experience that is indistinguishable from a local user experience.
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Specifics of what is new in Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS
Wednesday, 11 March 2009 by Michel Roth
I've talked about what is new about Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS (Remote Desktop Services) before. This time around, let take a look at the details in a little bit more detail based on the information that Microsoft has made public. This article will focus on the "pure TS features".
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My Ultimate ESX Whitebox: Small, Aesthetically Pleasing and under $1000
Thursday, 16 October 2008 by Michel Roth
In my day (and night?) job working for Quest I get to demonstrate the Virtual Access Suite (VAS) a lot. In short this means that I have to demo a VAS infrastructure at the very least consisting of a VAS Connection Broker, a VAS Terminal Server, a VAS Virtual Desktop, a Domain Controller, a VirtualCenter server and a ESX host. With a lot of time and patience one would be able to get pretty far with this with a decent laptop up until ESX. ESX will not run on "normal laptop hardware". Period. So let me share how I found my ultimate ESX Whitebox.
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A First look at RTO Virtual Profiles
Wednesday, 09 April 2008 by Michel Roth
A couple of months ago I noticed that RTO was offering a new product called RTO Virtual Profiles. I also said it was probably just another Flex Profiles clone. As it turns out I was quite wrong. Wrong in that the product wasn't officially released yet and wrong in that RTO Virtual Profiles deals with profiles in a very different, refreshing way. I took a look at some of the early betas.
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Microsoft Releases Hyper-V RC: RTM Will Be Sooner Than Expected, Much Sooner...
Thursday, 20 March 2008 by Michel Roth
Microsoft just announced that they have delivered the first release candidate (RC) of Hyper-V to the general public. So after shipping Windows Server 2008 with a beta of the Hyper-V role embedded and now, not even a month later, shipping the Hyper-V release candidate, Microsoft is on the fast-track with Hyper-V. Mark my words: Hyper-V will be released (a lot) earlier than August 2008.
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Off Shoring Virtual Application Creation
Friday, 14 March 2008 by Michel Roth
Application virtualization, primarily thanks to Microsoft pushing it, has become very popular in companies of all sizes. Implementation of application virtualization or migration to application virtualization isn't something to be taken lightly. Whether you use SoftGrid, Thinstall, Citrix Application Streaming or another product, very specific skills are required to make this work. Why do all the hard work yourself?
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About My Decision To Join Provision Networks
Friday, 07 March 2008 by Michel Roth
This is ironic. I've been scooped myself. As you might have noticed, Brian Madden has blogged about the fact that I have decided to join Provision Networks (now a part of Quest Software). This information came out a little earlier than I planned but I guess this is as good a time as any for me to explain why I decided to join Provision Networks and what will happen to Thincomputing.net.
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