Virtualization

Microsoft has introduced a suite of new features for Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI. These enhancements are aimed at simplifying the configuration, management, and optimization of virtual desktop environments. Azure Virtual Desktop for Azure Stack HCI allows customers to deploy and manage virtual desktops on their on-premises infrastructure using Azure Stack HCI. This…

Microsoft announced this morning the public preview of the Cobalt 100 Arm-based virtual machine (VM). The company has also announced the general availability of the new Azure ND MI300X v5 VM series. Microsoft first unveiled its Arm-powered chip Cobalt 100 chip for general-purpose and cloud-native workloads in November last year. The Azure Cobalt CPU is…

Broadcom and Google have announced a new license portability plan that will allow enterprise customers to run VMware workloads on Google Cloud. Broadcom is also actively advocating for the benefits of the changes to its VMware products among partners and customers. In the new license portability scheme, customers who purchased VMware Cloud Foundation software from…

Roaming profiles are a Windows feature that allows user profiles to be used across multiple workstations within a network. A user profile contains personalized application settings, desktop configurations, application preferences, and other user-specific data. In this article, I will show you how to deploy roaming user profiles in your Windows environment so that users have…

In this article, I look at Azure VMware Solution, a Microsoft virtual machine (VM) service, verified by VMware, that runs on Microsoft Azure infrastructure. And specifically, how you can add a second layer of encryption to your datastore and ensure Microsoft cannot read or write any data within your private cloud. Data security is a…

Microsoft has announced the release of a big update for its Azure VMware Solution (AVS). This release brings support for stretched clusters, customer-managed keys, Azure NetApp Files Datastores, and much more. “Azure VMware Solution is an easy way to extend and migrate existing VMware Private Clouds to run them natively on Azure. Azure VMware Solution…

Parallels Desktop 19 for Mac is now available on macOS Mojave or newer, and it introduces more ways to manage Windows virtual machines (VMs) on Macs. Parallels Desktop for Mac is now an officially supported solution for running Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs (in addition to Windows 365 Cloud PCs), and for organizations interested…

Earlier this year, Microsoft released watermarking support in public preview for Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). The company detailed in a blog post yesterday that the security feature is now generally available for all commercial customers. Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a cloud-based virtual desktop and application virtualization solution that runs in Microsoft Azure. The managed…

Microsoft has announced some new capabilities for its Azure Virtual Desktop service. The top requested feature should help organizations to enhance endpoint security, configuration, storage, and employee experience. Microsoft has introduced FSLogix profiles support for Azure AD-joined VMs in Azure Virtual Desktop. The feature lets users access file shares from Azure AD-joined VMs in order…

Microsoft’s new Azure Virtual Desktop app is available to download from the Microsoft Store. The company announced the app’s availability in public preview yesterday, and it runs on both Windows 11 and Windows 10 PCs. Until now, the only way to access Azure Virtual Desktop resources was to download the Microsoft Remote Desktop application. Additionally,…

Remote and virtual desktop solutions provide a flexible way for users to access remote services securely while maintaining control of how the users access those services. In this article, I’ll explain how FSLogix can optimize remote and virtual desktop environments by leveraging Profile Containers and Application Masking. I’ll also detail the FSLogix features allowing users…