From the RES Community Hero dept. My good friend Iain Brighton over at Virtual Engine in the UK has for quite some time offered a pretty amazing toolkit which will help you in your daily work with RES Workspace Manager. It’s about time I gave it a proper review. The VEToolkit is to the RES Workspace Manager what Robin is to Batman! It’s a great sidekick as it picks up where WM leaves off by offering multiple functions, which are all triggered by the green button in the lower right of the app.
This application is in continued development (beta 3) at the time of writing. In this article I’ll give you a detailed introduction to it’s capabilities along with usecases and show you where to download. I should probably also mention the VEToolkit is free! Interested? Read more »
From the RES Community Hero dept. A new blog, VDI Rants and Raves has seen the light of day. One of the first articles directly addresses how you can combine RES Software’s Virtual Desktop Extender (aka VDX) with Quest’s vWorkspace. For obvious reason I’d like to have seen an integration with RES Workspace Manager, but on the other hand where would the fun be in that? :-) There is no challenge in that as WM+VDX works nicely out of the box.
As I commented on the new article itself, it’s really cool to see folks out there tweaking our stuff in ways we’ve yet to imagine, even if it’s working in collaboration with competing products. I’m hoping we’ll see more articles from this yet unknown author related to our technology. In the meantime, I’ve added this blog to the Places We Like list on RESguru. Keep up the great work, good sir!
From the VDX Inside dept. On behalf of my good colleague Jeff Fisher, I would like to share with you all a new whitepaper which was joint developed by Intel Corporation and RES Software.The paper highlights the value add of RES VDX, when dealing with the challenges of deploying server-based VDI. Intel has been running a campaign around “Intelligent Client” for a while now, with the goal of evangelizing a hybrid approach to Desktop Virtualization. Clearly Intel as well as RES Software believes that one size doesn’t fit all. As a consequence Intel has created messaging which states (and I happen to agree with this), that although there is a time and place for VDI in the enterprise, a wholesale move to this kind of environment doesn’t make sense because it ignores increasingly capable rich endpoints.
Obviously, this is a great fit with RES Software’s VDX technology and Intel has been working with it for around 6 months now. They are showcasing VDX in a number of demo environments, including their client virtualization lab in Folsom, CA, which is often visited by Intel enterprise business development managers and their customers. As a result, Intel have started a joint effort with RES Software around VDX and Intelligent Client which so far has seen us included in both a media event they held about a month ago (see Jeff’s post here), a Cloud Builder event that we attended last month in Belgium and now, a published white paper that I’ve attached for your use. The whitepaper contains some very interesting benchmark numbers to contemplate.
From the Community Hero Dept. A new article has been posted on Iain Brighton‘s Virtual Engine blog. This time Iain tackles a problem which could help others get way more flexibility out of the RES Workspace Manager, than originally designed for – I love when that happens! :) Anyway, Iain has been digging around in the hardware related parts of the registry to find out how to detect the presence of other hardware than just USB removable drives. Go check out his article here.
From the ROTFL dept. From the twisted yet hilarious mind of Ed Webster, here’s a little creation I’d like to share with you. If you are an Admin, see if you can recognize yourself in this story. Enjoy! :-)
From the Events-you-shouldn’t-miss dept. In two weeks time the stage is set in Dublin, Ireland for another round of PubForum (or the E2E Virtualization conference, if you’re selling it to your manager :) If you’ve never heard of this event, it’s hardly your fault as it’s not one of those massive corporate driven events, which have plenty marketing muscle. Word-of-mouth fortunately can make up for that a long way down the road: PubForum is for the Geeks, by the Geeks (capital G intentional) and has been run for years by my friends Alex Juschin, René Vester and others. Having presented myself at this event several times, I want to assure you it is HIGHLY recommended and worth your while: For the bargain price of €350 you get an unbelievable amount of techinfo in the bag! Hurry though as seats are very limited and fill up fast! Read more »
From the Community Hero dept: Thursday this week, my good buddy Eli over at Artemis in Windy City, posted an excellent article on RES Workspace Manager and VDX. Go have a look at the article right here. Keep up the great work man!
From the More-is-Merrier Dept. Today April 18th, it is my pleasure to welcome 3 new guru’s as technical co-writers to RESguru.com. All three gentlemen are seasoned industry professionals who posses plenty of field experience with RES Software products. In no particular order, I am very pleased to introduce Patrick Kaak, Sascha Maier and Sander Wilmink. You can read their bio’s in the newly updated Writers section, which you can find in the black top menu. Each writer has in preperation for this announcement prepared an new technical article. Sander’s will be online shortly, but in the meantime have a look at these brand new technotes:
<<< RG034 – User driven app-install with WM & AM
<<< RG035 – Migrating to Win7 with Workspace Manager
From the What-Happens-In-Vegas Dept. Microsoft Management Summit in sunny Las Vegas is coming up in March, 21st through 25th. If you’re stateside this is a must-attend event, where you will have the opportunity to learn from the experts and see what’s new in the realm of all things Microsoft. Again this year, RES Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner, is exhibiting and presenting System Center integration and VDX at MMS. Here’s a handful of great reasons why you should stop by booth #415 or one of our presentations/labs and see what’s going on… Read more »
From the Guru Bootcamp dept. During 2010 we’ve all been witness to how the product portofolio at RES has expanded. Also there’s been plenty of new functionality added to the existing products, hence the training offerings needed to be changed accordingly. RES Training recently announced changes in the training and certification courses to it’s channel. I’ve summarized some of the highlights here and added a Training FAQ section below.
Note: This article has been updated Feb 17th with links to syllabus for the new courses and additional entries in the FAQ section.
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From the RES Community Hero dept. My good friend Iain Brighton over at Virtual Engine in the UK has for quite some time offered a pretty amazing toolkit which will help you in your daily work with RES Workspace Manager. It’s about time I gave it a proper review. The VEToolkit is to the RES Workspace Manager what Robin is to Batman! It’s a great sidekick as it picks up where WM leaves off by offering multiple functions, which are all triggered by the green button in the lower right of the app.
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From the Events-you-shouldn’t-miss dept. In two weeks time the stage is set in Dublin, Ireland for another round of PubForum (or the E2E Virtualization conference, if you’re selling it to your manager :) If you’ve never heard of this event, it’s hardly your fault as it’s not one of those massive corporate driven events, which have plenty marketing muscle. Word-of-mouth fortunately can make up for that a long way down the road: PubForum is for the Geeks, by the Geeks (capital G intentional) and has been run for years by my friends 
From the More-is-Merrier Dept. Today April 18th, it is my pleasure to welcome 3 new guru’s as technical co-writers to RESguru.com. All three gentlemen are seasoned industry professionals who posses plenty of field experience with RES Software products. In no 
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