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January 2011 - The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog

  • vWorkspace PowerShell Tip - Staggered PNTools Upgrades - Part 2

    Robust Deployment   In the last part of this series we went over what it would take to script a staggered PNTools upgrade. The script emphasized the simplicity that the new vWorkspace cmdlets offered in aiding this operation. Although it was a useful...
    Published Jan 31 2011 by The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog , 845 views, 0 comments
  • Ugrading to vSphere 4.1 and virtual distributed switches can break linked clones and FlexClones

    I had fun at a customer site where they had upgraded to vSphere 4.1 and decided to use vDS (virtual ditributed switches). They had been running vWorkspace 7.1 and after they upgraded to 7.2 they tried to create some new virtual desktops, the provisioning...
    Published Jan 19 2011 by The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog , 908 views, 0 comments
  • vWorkspace PowerShell Tip - Staggered PNTools Upgrades - Part 1

    Simplifying Deployment   Albeit the vWorkspace management console allows users to upgrade PNTools on a large scale, this can prove detrimental to application accessibility and even virtual machine up-time. Upgrading an entire computer group at once...
    Published Jan 12 2011 by The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog , 811 views, 0 comments
  • vWorkspace PowerShell Tip - Using Quest Active Directory cmdlets with vWorkspace

    New Levels of Integration   With the introduction of the vWorkspace PowerShell Module many new avenues of integration have been opened. One of those avenues leads right to Active Directory. Quest offers some great, free , AD cmdlets . They allow...
    Published Jan 10 2011 by The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog , 573 views, 0 comments
  • vWorkspace Scalability Testing on Hyper-V at Microsoft Labs

    Back in June of this year we spent several weeks in the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center (EEC) testing the scalability and automation of vWorkspace on a farm of 16 Hyper-V hosts provisioning, reprovisioning and brokering connections across 1,024...
    Published Jan 04 2011 by The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog , 864 views, 0 comments
  • Quest vWorkspace 7.2 Feature Spotlight: Default Administrative Account

    Default Administrative Account With the introduction of Quest vWorkspace version 7.2, we have added a new feature which we call the “Default Administrative Account”.  This feature provides two very real conveniences to the vWorkspace...
    Published Jan 03 2011 by The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog , 585 views, 0 comments