I ran across this fix when trying to sysprep a Windows 8 computer that was upgraded from Windows 7, for testing purposes. It was in fact a VMware template I converted to Hyper-V and was prepping for the VDI lab. → Continue Reading.

Off the shelf, Server 2012 will provision desktops serially (one-at-a-time), not parallel. If you are spinning up a pool of 10 desktops, at 5 minutes a desktop, that’s 50 minutes for a single pool. Bump that number by 10 for → Continue Reading.

Under Server 2012 RDS a collection (Virtual Desktop or Session), you will find you can publish either Desktops or RemoteApps, but not both.  In fact, the moment you publish your first RemoteApp, the desktop connection disappears. If you would like → Continue Reading.

As a cloud and datacenter specialist, a VDI tip from me seem a bit unusual, but it’s not difficult to predict that VDI is part of a future that includes DaaS (Desktop-as-a-Service). One question I get about every time I → Continue Reading.