With Windows 10 and 11, the entire stack has been modernized with modern policies, configurations, programs, and capabilities. "Mobile Jon" Towles and Michael Niehaus are here today to help craft the perfect Windows 11 design with onboarding, user experience, and security in mind. Michael Niehaus, who is widely considered to be THE expert in Windows Autopilot will talk about how to create seamless and incredible onboarding experiences. Jon will talk about his experiences and how to build great user experience alongside securing endpoints with the capabilities introduced in Windows 11.

When it comes to technology in the workplace, employees today need—and, frankly, demand—a frictionless experience. They want technology to enable them to be productive instead of inhibiting their ability to get their jobs done. Employees want the freedom and flexibility to work where they want, when they want, and how they want.

IT teams will need a platform to match, and ControlUp’s Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform is just that.During this session we will explain and show you how ControlUp helps IT teams address common digital workplace experience challenges for any desktop, no matter if they are physical or virtual, including VDI hosted, DaaS delivered, and cloud PCs.

In the evolving landscape of cloud computing, efficient and secure application delivery is crucial for maintaining business continuity and user productivity. This session delves into the powerful capabilities of Windows 365 Cloud and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) in streamlining application delivery across diverse organizational environments. Attendees will explore best practices for deploying, managing, and scaling applications within these platforms, ensuring seamless access and enhanced user experiences. We will cover integration strategies, security considerations, and performance optimization techniques, equipping IT professionals with the knowledge to harness the full potential of Windows 365 and AVD for their enterprise needs. Whether you're looking to improve remote work scenarios or enhance your cloud strategy, this session offers actionable insights and real-world examples to guide your journey.

Attacks on hypervisors are increasing due to their devastating blast radius, as highlighted by the recent attacks on MGM Casinos, Johnson Controls, and MITRE. Now, you can protect your hypervisors: Vali Cyber offers the world’s only hypervisor ransomware protection for ESXi. Our platform, ZeroLock®, combines low overhead (50MB of RAM) with a multi-layered defense approach which features attack prevention, AI-behavioral detection, and automated file rollback. In the case of a breach, you can instantly restore your hypervisor and VMs, helping to ensure zero downtime for essential applications.

Join Vali Cyber's CTO and Cofounder, Austin Gadient as we dive into a demo featuring:

• Using lockdown rules to prevent shutdown of your VMs

• Leveraging Application Allowlisting to block new executables

• Creating SSH MultiFactor Authentication to verify credentials

• Detecting and remediating fileless ransomware attacks with AI-behavioral detection

Are you ready to elevate your data protection game? With cyberattacks becoming more sophisticated, ensuring the security of your on-premises and public cloud environments is crucial. Don't miss this exclusive webinar with Anthony Dutra, Technical Marketing Engineer at Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to unlock the secrets of robust data protection and rapid (and in some cases, even air gapped!) recovery.

In this session, you will learn how Zerto and VMware on public cloud:

• Shield your VMware investments from cyber threats

• Maximize the benefits of cloud and hybrid cloud solutions

• Seamlessly expand to a multi-cloud infrastructure

• Achieve near-zero data loss and recover in minutes

The classic combination of legacy VPN and RDP don't make for an ideal user experience for the remote workers of today. Citrix Virtual apps and desktops is faster and more secure alternative to legacy corporate VPNs. This this is due to the "remoting" nature of the industry leading Citrix HDX protocol, where only screen changes and keyboard / mouse inputs are sent to the remote Citrix app / desktop session, this results in a drastic reduction on data transmission for users connecting to a Citrix virtual app or desktop , as processing occurs on the remote virtual session. As well, Citrix virtual apps and desktops via the HDX protocol provides much more granular security controls over end-user devices to support the needs off corporate office and remote workers alike.

Very large environments are those that can gain the most value from a virtual app and desktop deployment, benefiting from simplified management, improving ROI, and enhancing end user compute security and compliance. But they can also be the most daunting to design and implement. What if your task was to design and implement a 30,000 user Omnissa Horizon Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment? Where would you start and how would you avoid common pitfalls and obstacles?

In this session, I’ll share how we were able to tackle such a challenge, resulting in tremendous outcomes for this large enterprise customer. Deployments at this scale are truly an act of extreme ownership, teamwork and alignment, between partners, clients, hardware and software vendors. The individuals that worked together as a team, to pull off this deployment were the best and the brightest in the industry! I’m honored to play a pivotal role in the success of this project, to this point and into the future expansion.

I’ll share how we avoided some of the most common Horizon RDSH/VDI design and implementation pitfalls on our journey to delivering mission critical services to 30,000 users. In addition to Omnissa (VMware) technologies, this solution took advantage of NVIDIA GRID vGPU Virtual Apps (vApps) and Virtual PC (vPC), along with IGEL Software-Defined Endpoints. Included will be insights into the entire Omnissa (formerly VMware EUC) technology stack — Instant Clones, App Volumes, Dynamic Environment Manager, Unified Access Gateway and Workspace ONE Access. I’ll also share how we included Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and 1,000+ NVIDIA Tesla GPUs deployed across hundreds of hosts, dozens of clusters and multiple datacenters. The result is an Active-Active, globally load balanced topology delivering impressive performance and availability for this large-scale enterprise organization.

With Nedge’s patented technology, users can now operate Unified Communications (UC) Apps offloaded at the edge for high performance with low maintenance seamlessly from within their existing cloud VDI - Horizon or Anyware - on Windows or Linux. Our approach provides “native” cloud UX without the need for any VDI app plug-ins (which are not even an option on zero client devices).

Nedge’s solutions help offload and optimize VDI remote desktops and end-user devices. MAP is a core future-proof solution to provide continued support for PCoIP devices with Horizon VDI as it moves away from the protocol. MEET, Nedge's flagship application, is the world's first edge-based solution for media optimization of Unified Communications (UC) Apps. It allows Tera2-based devices, Trusted Zero Clients and Thin Client desktops/laptops to operate without any VDI plug-ins!

Important to note: a direct connection from Tera2 to Horizon VDI is not available for Linux hosts (today) and Windows hosts (after 2025). Nedge MAP fixes both these shortcomings, while MEET allows Trusted Zero Clients & Thin Clients running on PCoIP Ultra or Blast Extreme to operate UC Apps without any VDI plug-ins.

Many think all you can do with virtual desktops and GPUs is graphics. Crate a CAD drawing here, stream some content there, and maybe sneak in a video game here and there. Be prepared to move outside this comfort zone of traditional VDI graphics with Tony Foster, AKA the Wondernerd. He will take you on a journey, exploring other things you can do with VDI and GPUs. We’ll of course look at buzzwords like AI and Machine Learning. Then, we’ll explore more practical applications and look at best practices for architecting and configuring these workloads. This ain’t your grandpa’s VDI…

NEWS FLASH!  Broadcom has a new, streamlined licensing approach!  These changes impact Citrix CVAD and Omnissa Horizon customers who run their EUC solution on VMware vSphere.  This session will cover the new licensing approach, and how it impacts customers running vSphere, vSAN, NSX and more!  We will also talk about what this means for VMUG Advantage and EvalExperience customers.

Building and maintaining your virtual desktop and RDSH server images can be a full-time job. There are always application updates, Windows patches, and tweaks that will keep a VDI or desktop administrator busy maintaining the environment. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Follow along as EUC blogger and consultant Sean Massey takes you on a journey from manual image builds to push-button automated image pipelines.