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0610 BRT // 0510 LoginVSI – (How-to) Design Your Digital Workspace for Maximum User Experience and Reliability
With software vendors pushing updates at an ever-increasing rate, maintaining and keeping your endpoints current can quickly become a bottleneck. Slowing down your business, or worse, disconnecting your data and applications from all of your end-users. In this session, Perparim and Mark will share their view on the importance of (automated) pre-production testing as the only way to provide a reliable and cost-effective service for your users – whether they are on-prem, in the cloud, or working from home. And yes, there will be demos!
0630 BRT // 0530 EDT Christiaan Brinkhoff – Eliminate legacy print-servers with Microsoft Universal Print
Microsoft Universal Print (PaaS) eliminates the need for on-premises infrastructure and enables IT to manage printers directly in the Cloud through a centralized portal. Move to a print setup that’s scalable and easy to use as part of your Windows Virtual Cloud Desktops. Experience how this new Microsoft cloud service can be beneficial for you, including rich demos, fun, and much more!
0720 BRT // 0620 uberAgent – Experience score: uberAgent’s root cause analysis dashboard
The experience score is a single view that shows the current and past status of all devices, applications, and users monitored by uberAgent. It allows for proactive monitoring of your environment, reducing downtimes and costs. The experience score dashboard is the new entry point of the uberAgent UXM Splunk app. It calculates and visualizes experience scores for the entire estate, breaking the data down by category and component, highlighting components potential issues are originating from. The dashboard also provides quick access to important KPIs like logon duration, application responsiveness, or application errors.
0740 BRT // 0640 Patrick Köhler – Building secure Bastion landscapes with Windows Virtual Desktop
In this "demo only" session I will show you how to configure Windows Virtual Desktop, to allow external Consultants as well as internal IT members how to access company resources securely using Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure. We will walk through standard security mechanisms to be used, followed by dynamic and flexible App assignments using MSIX App Attach, as well as scaling solutions, to decrease the costs for the cloud-based Bastion landscape. This session is based on a real-world use case, where 300 on-premises VMs have been replaced by WVD.
0830 BRT // 0730 EDT Cameyo – Simple, Secure Application Delivery for Any Digital Workspace
Your remote and hybrid workforce needs simple, secure access to all of their business-critical applications on any device so that they can be productive from wherever they happen to be working that day. Cameyo provides secure application delivery for any Digital Workspace, enabling you to easily and cost-effectively deliver all your Windows and web apps from any HTML5 browser. This session will provide a live demo of the Cameyo platform, including a step-by-step guide to publishing your first application within 10 minutes.
0850 BRT // 0750 EDT Bas van Kaam – Ephemeral OS Disks and the Windows Virtual Desktop use-case
A practical session where we will be talking about Windows Virtual Desktop together with Ephemeral OS Disks, Managed Disks, Premium Storage, a bit of Nerdio, and how we can combine all this leading to an increase in speed, a decrease in costs, and a better user experience. A 30–45-minute session, give or take on Azure virtual machine storage, with a primary focus on Ephemeral.
0940 BRT // 0840 EDT eG Innovations – Digital Workspace Deployment and Performance Monitoring in the New Normal – Survey Results
The last year has been tumultuous for everyone. For the end user computing community, it was an extraordinary time with everyone having to deal with new requirements from their business at short notice. Over the last few months, xenappblog and eG Innovations conducted a survey to learn how organizations have adapted their digital workspaces to the new normal. In this session, we will summarize the key findings of this survey of over 1050 digital workspace professionals.
1000 BRT // 0900 EDT Jarian Gibson – Profiles on Nutanix Files
In this session I will discuss Nutanix Files for Citrix profile solutions. I will discuss Nutanix Files setup and configuration options along with capabilities, sizing considerations, and multisite/disaster recovery. Configuration for various profile solutions such as Citrix App Layering with User Layers, Citrix Profile Management, Citrix User Personalization Layer, and Microsoft FSLogix. Guidance will also apply to any containerized profile solution on Nutanix Files
1330 BRT // 1230 EDT Goliath Technologies – Frustrated of learning Citrix Cloud Connector is down only after an end user complains of a performance issue?
In this session Goliath will share how its embedded intelligence proactively monitors Citrix Cloud and the Cloud Connectors to automatically alert you if there is an issue while taking remediation actions to avoid disruption in end user experience.
1120 BRT // 1020 EDT Dave Brett & Jake Nicoll – EUC and Security
In this session we will be talking to you about how to apply Security Frameworks to you EUC deployments. We will look into what the main parts of a security framework covers as well as picking out specific examples that will give you those “quick wins” from a security perspective. During this session we will focus on the Mitre Attack framework which is a common framework being used currently (at least here in the UK).
1210 BRT // 1110 EDT Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) now integrates with Windows Virtual Desktop!
Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) now integrates with Windows Virtual Desktop! Enterprise Sales Engineer Don Clemmer will explain how Parallels RAS extends and supports Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities to provide a unified experience for admins and end-users, with benefits that include simplified deployment and management, Azure consumption optimization, greater productivity, optimized workspaces, secure mobility, FSLogix and more.
1230 BRT // 1130 EDT James Rankin & Dave Holborn – Out with the old, in with the new – adapting ‘traditional’ EUC delivery mechanisms for a cloud world
How does a large enterprise go from the “old-school” ways of provisioning and managing an EUC estate to new, cloud-native methods? In this session, we will discuss a multi-year journey about overcoming the use of traditional industry methods to embrace more flexible, dynamic and secure techniques for a cloud-based environment. Covering authentication, app delivery, security and multi-cloud initiatives, we will show you how to successfully change your entire mindset to give you a much more agile platform
1320 BRT // 1220 EDT Automai – Connect, Authenticate, Enumerate, and Launch! What next?
These four phases are fundamental to all EUC solutions and are used as determining factors of a successful Desktop or Application launch. But what happens after that? What is missed? Part of the challenge of using the common tests mentioned for probing is false positives showing our desktops or applications are available when actual business workflows are failing. This means critical functions are broken. Automai doesn’t stop at validating for launch.
1340 BRT // 1240 EDT Ryan Mangan – MSIX App Attach in the Wild
In this session, I will provide a deep dive into what MSIX app attach is (Dynamic Application Delivery (DAD). I will also cover Deployment options inside and outside Windows Virtual Desktop. An introduction to CimFS, what it is, how to manage CimFS (including some community tools) and the performance metrics/benefits. I will finish the session off with some of the options available today to deliver MSIX app attach to WVD, VMware Horizon and Citrix Cloud.
1430 BRT // 1330 EDT VMware – Why VMware Horizon is so awesome in just 20 minutes!
The world is demanding more out of desktop virtualization than ever before, and with users working from (quite literally) anywhere, workloads need to reside on-premises and in the cloud at the same time–without doubling management responsibilities or hurting the user experience. In this session from EUC-lifer Gabe Knuth, you’ll learn how the hybrid and multi-cloud capabilities of VMware Horizon; unique features like Instant Clones, App Volumes, and Dynamic Environment Manager.
1450 BRT // 1350 EDT Manuel Winkel – I Got 99 Problems But Office 365 Ain’t One
A practical session (with DEMO) where I talk about the problems and pains of a Citrix administrator / consultant when suddenly Office365 with Teams, Exchange Online and/or OneDrive has to be implemented in Citrix environments. How can we solve these issues with internal Citrix resources and when do we need to use FSLogix to implement a future-proof and high-performance solution?
1540 BRT // 1440 EDT ControlUp – Go beyond EUC monitoring with ControlUp Ultimate
For 10 years ControlUp has been the best solution to not only monitor your Citrix and VMware EUC environments in real-time, but also to quickly troubleshoot and remediate issues manually or through automation. During this session Yoni will introduce you to how ControlUp is evolving into an end-to-end Digital Experience Monitoring and Optimization platform and show you our recent enhancements and new technologies such as the ControlUp SOLVE interface, Proactive Synthetic Monitoring for Network Resources and give you a Sneak Peek into what we will do for users working from home through Last Mile and Desktop Monitoring.
1600 BRT // 1500 EDT Ryan Revord – EUC Monitoring – Get the management monkeys off your back!
In this session we’ll show how we can use grafana and influxdb to create monitoring and reporting dashboards that you can use to get your management and others off your back while you go about doing your job. We will show you can create consumption based dashboards for showing users counts, system status and more..
1650 BRT // 1550 EDT Workspot – Cloud Desktops & GPU Workstations – A Simple Solution for a Complex Initiative
Are you tasked with virtualizing Windows 10 desktops and GPU accelerated workstations, across multiple geographic regions and multiple public clouds? This sounds complicated and expensive. In this session, Andy Knauf, CIO from Mead & Hunt, along with Brad Peterson from Workspot, share how Andy deployed hundreds of cloud desktops and AMD-powered GPU cloud workstations globally across three Azure regions, deploying and managing all from a single UI, and at a flat fixed fee. Andy will share a live demo of Mead & Hunt.
1710 BRT // 1610 EDT Jim Moyle – Cloud Image Management
Fed up of doing this the old way? Does your SCCM 1606 environment no longer give you joy? Come join Jim Moyle (Microsoft Global Black Belt & Citrix CTP) as he shows you the new, shiny and cool, cloud based image management for Desktop Virtualization (Works for any broker!) and bask in the warm glow of your new expertise.
1800 BRT // 1700 EDT Tricerat – Why it makes sense to treat printing and scanning like a DevOps strategy
The goals of DevOps are synonymous to efficient printing and scanning management. In this session, we will explore industry statistics that represent the challenges IT admins face. By leveraging print and scan management solutions that follow DevOps strategies, organizations can gain the ability to respond better to customer needs and achieve business goals faster.
1820 BRT // 1720 EDT PolicyPak – You Gotta Try This
See what Carl Webster, Citrix CTP means when he says “You owe it to yourself to look at PolicyPak Software!” 20 minutes isn’t enough, but during this demo you’ll see how to manage all your Applications, Desktop, Browser, Java, and Security Settings. Works with Citrix, desktops, laptops, VDI.. anything Windows! No infrastructure, and up and running in 5 minutes. Don’t miss this session by Jeremy Moskowitz, PolicyPak CTO and Group Policy & Management MVP.
1840 BRT // 1740 EDT Patrick Coble – Mystery Security Theater
In this session you will choose your destiny and pick what topics you like to hear about. There will be a range of topics to choose from like Cloud Security, VDI Security, Privacy, Privileged Account Management, Security War Stories, Application Security and a couple others too. We’ll take a pool at the being on the session, and cover the most popular ones.