With IT departments around the world suddenly focused on supporting their remote workforces, administrators are evaluating Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) to allow users to be productive from home. WVD is quick to roll out, especially if users have already been synchronized to Azure Active Directory. However, there are underlying infrastructure prerequisites that should be understood before setting up the first Host Pool.

I have been helping admins who have been tasked with immediately piloting WVD, and this post aims to document some of infrastructure items that are commonly overlooked in the rush to stand up the solution.

How do you keep your data secure while enabling workers to be productive? Working from home creates many challenges to delivering apps and data to those remote users. This blog will walk you through some of those specific challenges and then propose some possible solutions for either a short-term fix or a long-term strategy.

Look at nearly any new offering from the largest names in technology — Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others — and you’re likely to find an accompanying environmental and sustainability initiative.

There’s been a growing awareness in recent years about the impact of energy use by corporate data centers, both on the environment and on organizations’ bottom lines. Public cloud hyperscalers have recognized this concern and have responded by optimizing their environments to help organizations meet their spending and sustainability goals.

As you make decisions about where to place your IT workloads, keep the following considerations in mind.

If your organization has made the strategic decision to enable Microsoft Teams, it is your job to accomplish this task while limiting the impact to end users, and also creating a path that will provide the best adoption and user experience possible.

The following are eight important things for you to consider as you start building your project plan for the move to the Microsoft Teams platform.

As the supporting technology has improved and the delivery has grown more simple, remote work is becoming a mainstay for many organizations. If you are an organization looking to provide state-of-the-art collaboration capabilities without breaking the budget, you might be asking yourself: What’s the quickest way to get started?

Microsoft isn’t retiring its Skype for Business Online solution until the summer of 2021, but we’re already seeing a growing number of organizations transitioning to Microsoft Teams. Businesses are finding that their employees really respond to an environment that ties together collaboration tools such as chat, file sharing, calendar, voice and video.

While it’s exciting to see users adopting a powerful tool on their own, it’s also important for organizations to be strategic in how they roll out and support Teams. Here are three ways to ensure your Teams deployment improves operations and helps your organization achieve its business goals.