The answer to number one is no. VDS is completely optional, not required and nearly everything I talk about in the presentation is available to you without VDS. VDS enables some really cool functionality that is much more difficult and more involved to do on your own. VDS by itself does not do
Will an Office 365 outage take out WVD?
So an Office 365 outage, specifically, would not affect WVD. There is a giant asterisk next to that which is, the most recent outages were Azure Active Directory outages specifically and those would have taken out normal URL access to the WVD service. Now there are other ways, we can set up other
How do we handle printers and scanners with WVD?
Printing and scanning is basically the same as it has always been. As long as your printer drivers aren’t weird, we can make it work. Microsoft has launched a new service this year that is not fully out yet. They basically launched their own cloud printing service, kind of like Google used to have.
With WVD, how do we connect to an on-premise environment?
So two ways. The most popular way to do it is go ahead and have a site to site VPN between Azure and your local environment. That works fine unless you have a low latency requirement in your line of business applications. In that case, now we look at something called global file cache, which is a
What are the security risks if your employees are working from home?
If you’re going to be providing your own equipment, there are some other Microsoft pieces, Microsoft Intune, for example, gives you access to automatic machine setup and deployment. With autopilot we can do that, and we do have customers that are doing that. It’s about 50/50 with our customers that
How does WVD work in a Mac environment?
WVD is a Mac users and a Mac administrators dream come true because it fixes two problems at once. It allows the Mac user to work on their premium Mac device and especially if you are using an additional monitor, you take your Windows virtual monitor, you throw it over on another monitor and you’re
How do we know how much WVD is going to cost?
We have a cost calculator that we use. It takes into account the rough number of hours per day for an 8-5 type of business or 24/7 sort of shop. It takes into account what type of applications you use. We have engineering firms on WVD that need access to GPU enabled hosts because they’re running
Does WVD support user specific desktop profiles?
Every user, when you log onto Windows and you have your profile that contains everything, you’ve got your Outlook cache, your OneDrive cache, all of your personal settings, desktops, your own files, etc., that’s all in your user profile. In order to make a distributed system like this work well, you
Can we install our own specific software on WVD?
So, with WVD, Microsoft gives you a handful of images right out of the box. They give you a Windows 10 image blank and then they give you Windows 10 image with Microsoft 365 applications built in. What we do, as part of your build, we take that image, we install all your applications that you want,