This is the second in a series of blog posts on eDiscovery, which will include video excerpts from the presentation we made at the O365 Nation Fall Conference held in Redmond last month. In Part 1 of this series, we...
Category: Microsoft
Business Practices, Microsoft, Security
eDiscovery Part 1 – Lifecycle of an Email Message
Last Friday, September 26, VirtualQube was invited to present at the O365 Nation fall conference in Redmond on the subject of eDiscovery and Organizational Search in Microsoft Office. O365 Nation is a new organization created by our long-time friend Harry...
Citrix, Cloud Computing, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Cloud-Based VDI vs. DaaS – Is There a Difference?
With nearly all new technologies in the IT space comes confusion over terminology. Some of the confusion is simply because the technology is new, and we’re all trying to understand how it works and how – or whether – it...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
The Elusive Windows Companion Subscription License – a Solution In Search of a Problem?
In our post entitled “What Licenses Do I Need,” we discussed the licensing required, from both Citrix and Microsoft, for a XenApp or XenDesktop deployment. But there was still an unknown factor: When that post was published, Microsoft had recently...
Microsoft, Virtualization
Does Shared-Nothing Migration Mean the Death of the SAN?
You’ve probably heard that Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 supports what Microsoft is calling “Shared Nothing” live migration. You can see a demo of that here, in a video that was posted on a TechNet blog back in July: Now...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
What Licenses Do I Need?
Earlier this week, I had a long discussion with a client (you know who you are) about what licenses they would need for a deployment of “zero client” devices. We’ve written a lot about Microsoft and Citrix licensing, about XenDesktop...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
Thin Clients vs. Cheap PCs
We have, for a long time, been fans of thin client devices. However, if you run the numbers, it turns out that thin clients may not necessarily be the most cost-effective client devices for a VDI deployment. Just before writing...
Citrix, Microsoft, Virtualization
VM Hosted Apps – and Why You Should Care
I’ve found that one of the least-understood features of XenApp is “VM hosted apps.” So, gentle reader, I thought it was time to try to bring some clarity to what is actually a very cool piece of technology, and may...
Citrix, Microsoft, Virtualization
Citrix Fixes the Provisioning Services – KMS Problem
This is big news for anyone who wants to use XenDesktop to facilitate a Windows 7 migration. Here’s why: It only takes a moment’s thought to realize that if your desktop virtualization project simply trades inexpensive desktop SATA storage for...
Citrix, Licensing, Microsoft, Virtualization
More on Provisioning Services and KMS
Last fall, we posted about Citrix Provisioning Services and Microsoft KMS activation. To briefly recap, here’s the issue: When you convert a Windows 7 OS image to a shared image for provisioning, it breaks the Microsoft license key. The way...