COO & Co-Founder | Automation Expert | Thought Leader | Passionate about helping companies improve efficiency, save costs, and respond to digital transformation challenges
Ever since the introduction of Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), also formerly known as Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), we often get asked what the main differences between this solution and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) are. While a variety of vendors have implementations of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), we are going to compare Microsoft’s VDI solution…
Windows Virtual Desktop, which was first announced back in September of 2018 and was GA in September of 2019, was introduced to provide a virtual desktop/app experience using cloud technology. This service enables users to login to a virtual machine from anywhere and have a desktop experience that would feel the same to them as…
Most people know that Microsoft had announced that Windows 10 was going to be the last Windows ever released, but what most don’t know is that even Windows 10 has had an End-of-Life date from the very beginning. As it says on Microsoft’s Windows 10 Enterprise and Education Modern Lifecycle page, “Microsoft will continue to…
In November 2020, we showed you how you use Access Capture, our automated application packaging and testing solution, to automate your MSIX and app attach creation in order to accelerate your application modernization journey, and with it, enable your Modern Desktop including Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). Today, we are thrilled to show you how you…
A few days ago, Microsoft announced that on June 24th, 2021, at 11 am EST, it is hosting a special event called “What’s Next For Windows.” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Chief Product Officer Panos Panay are expected to talk about next-generation Windows. Since then, excitement has been buzzing and rumors have been flying. Industry…
Access IT Automation’s premise for 2021 and beyond is to enable Modern Desktops for enterprises everywhere and anywhere. This means that with Access IT Automation you will be able to enable all applications, all users, and all devices, whether you are utilizing our solutions on-promise, in a hybrid solution, or hosted in the cloud. A…
So much has happened in the last six months! We have been incredibly busy behind the scenes building and improving extremely useful features, but we haven’t publicly talked about them. For example, we have built the ability to:
In the past few product-oriented blog posts, we have talked a lot about getting your estate ready for the Modern Desktop using Access Capture for application packaging and testing. For example, we’ve discussed ways to help you migrate onto Windows 10 and Office 365 or manage your environment using Evergreen IT in order to keep…
The real problem of Evergreen IT Management isn’t figuring out how to efficiently (and, let’s face it — fast enough) migrate your entire estate from one version of Windows 10 to a newer version. It also isn’t the volume of change if you are managing your Windows 10 OS lifecycle in conjunction with Microsoft 365…
If you have been following our blog for the last couple of years, you have seen that we have posted about MSIX and, in particular, MSIX app attach several times — from showing how to enable app attach for your organization to a video demo of creating an app attach using our tool, Access Capture.…