Hello, World! It is a new year on the same planet, and there is a light at the end of the COVID tunnel. Windows10X: an OS for budget devices In this month’s Enterprise Dish episode, Aaron and Brad reconvened to discuss Windows 10X, which is looking less like a rumor and more like a fully-formed […]
read more »Previously published on VMblog.com. It’s hard to look too far into the future right now. The pandemic is dominating work, home, and everything in between. We’re all thinking about managing risk, watching the news for the next shoe to drop. Still, it’s easy to see that some elements of the pandemic will stay with us far into the future. From our […]
read more »It’s November 2020. The election is over (or over-adjacent), Washington State is heading back into COVID-19 lockdown, and on top of all the practical realities that this will entail for me and my family (from childcare and educational uncertainties to our canceled Thanksgiving plans), my mind is being pulled in a hundred directions at once; […]
read more »Updated November 5, 2020: This blog post was published years ago, but people are still finding and reading it, so we’ll keep it here. Although Norton Ghost is now gone, the main idea holds true for the other disk-cloning systems that replace it—namely, these cloning solutions may be just what you need for backup, but […]
read more »Before choosing an imaging and deployment solution, you might want to take a peek under the hood. File-based imaging and sector-based imaging both have their uses. Understanding the differences can help you use the tools most efficiently.
read more »Reimaging computers is a crucial task for IT departments as this process maintains a secure, productive, and updated online environment. Without the right software to reimage computers, IT teams can spend countless hours perfecting their computer imaging strategy to avoid potential security failures and extended user downtime. If a complication arises, it can consume additional […]
read more »Windows 7 end-of-life in January 2020 is quickly approaching. This means there will be no more updates, including patches against the latest security threats, available for systems running on Windows 7. For enterprises who have not migrated to newer versions of Windows, it’s crunch time to begin a Windows 10 migration plan in order to […]
read more »Today we announced the introduction of hybrid VDI using Box and Dropbox deployment. There were two parts to this announcement and both sets of capabilities were customer driven. Let’s tackle these two capabilities separately. Hybrid VDI is essentially VDI-like layered, single-image management combined with local execution of the image on the endpoint. Hybrid VDI provides the […]
read more »One of the most exciting and engaging parts of each of our live webcasts is the Q&A time at the end of each event. Our audience constantly brings great technical questions and we’re always left wishing we had more time to get through them all. Good news! We’ve come up with a way to discuss […]
read more »Let’s continue our unified endpoint management (UEM) discussion from these earlier posts, in which you may have found me being critical of UEM solutions or even understating their capabilities, so here’s one of our experiences that has influenced our decision to not explore UEM solutions. We are a Microsoft partner and one of the wonderful […]
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