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Friday Notebook, April 3: Zoom’s wild week; Citrix Synergy delayed; Ignite moves online

Also: Citrix App Protection; IGEL OS updates: Azure Universal Print; and Okta Oktane. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 27: VMware and Menlo partnership; Citrix updates

Also: EUC and Coronavirus; lots of Apple news; new Everything EUC columns; Zimperium; Android Enterprise webinars; and more. Wash your hands and social distance! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 20: Resources for enabling remote workers; Workspot DR offering

Also: AR and VR for business; Wyse ThinOS9; new Apple devices; Horizon Cloud and WVD; Citrix Synergy Digital; Windows on ARM; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 13: Horizon on physical PCs; EUC Masters Retreat rescheduled

Also: BetterCloud; Nerdio; Zimperium; VMware Tanzu; digital workspace portals; Citrix Gateway; CVAD on-prem and the cloud; Teradici; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 6: EUC responds to Coronavirus; Microsoft Universal Print; more from RSA

Also: Login VSI; Idaptive; AR/VR; Teradici; browser extension security; NVv4 VMs; Cameyo for MSPs; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 28: RSA Conference; MTD news; and Android 11 COPE

Also: Workspot; VDI Like a Pro; Citrix App Protection; Workspace ONE; remote browsing; IoT; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 21: Microsoft plans mobile threat defense; Android 11 preview

Also: Lakeside; dark mode; foldable devices; RSA; Jamf; iOS default apps; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 14: EUC funding news; Windows 10X; Apple joins FIDO Alliance

Also: Idaptive and authorization; #FreeTheSandbox; Teams; mobile security stats; Lakeside; Nerdio; Addigy; Corp.com; smartphone cameras; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 7: MSIX Report Card; the state of tech

Also: Stratodesk; more on IGEL Disrupt; BlackBerry; Workspot; Lookout partnerships; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 31: The iPad at 10; GroundControl; IGEL Disrupt

Also: 1Password Enterprise; Okta’s customer metrics; Login VSI’s new platform; ControlUp and Horizon; and a few other things. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 24: More on Citrix vulnerability; G Suite and Windows 10; Bing snafu

Also: Chromebook app options; Neverware; BYOD; IGEL and Login VSI; Workspace ONE feature requests; Jamf Connect; Ignite 2020; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 17: Citrix ADC/Gateway vulnerabilities; Appdome hybrid apps

Also: Windows 7 and the era of Windows 10 modern management; Citrix Summit; VMware Workspace ONE Digital Assistant; Siri in the enterprise; Mosyle; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 10: A look ahead at 2020; Citrix Summit preview

Also: EBF; Citrix Workspace intelligent experience; Apple app distribution; private apps in public stores; Stratodesk Velma Lakes; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, December 20: Workspace ONE digital assistant; deviceTRUST funding

Also: BlackBerry UEM; Login.gov; iOS security keys; Kandji; Kubernetes; our year-end content, and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, December 13: Citrix releases “intelligent experience;” Parallels RAS 17.1

Also: FIDO in iOS 13.3; Nutanix Xi Frame; Workspace ONE for Microsoft Endpoint Manager; HP Adaptive Device Management; Yubico; Chrome password protection; reminiscing about Windows 10 Mobile. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, December 6: AWS re:Invent; WorkSpaces Streaming Protocol; overview of hybrid PaaS

Also: Cameyo; Microsoft Endpoint Manager; RPA; SCCM; Banyan; Windows 7 ESU promotional offer; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 22: Google acquires CloudSimple; opinions on Stadia (VDI for gaming) mixed

Also: Citrix Cloud services; Google Chrome experimental flag crash; Awingu 4.3; 1Password funding; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 15: Jamf JNUC week; Blue Cedar; Project Treble progress

Also: The state of Android Enterprise; Microsoft Power Automate; FIDO in Safari for iOS; Chredge is coming; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 8: Microsoft Ignite; VMworld; App Defense Alliance

Also: Appdome; IGEL; User Enrollment; productivity app inception; Cameyo; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 1: Workspace ONE Intelligence Automation Connector; Dark Mode and UEM

Also: macOS in the enterprise; password vaulting; ad blockers; everything we know about MSIX app attach; EUC Masters Retreat dates; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 25: Parallels RAS 17.1; Pradeo

Also: Stadia and ‘negative latency;’ Microsoft Defender; Linux on DeX shutting down; and a lot more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 18: The Byte-Size book is available for free

Also: Citrix; VMware; MSIX app attach; USB-C Titan key; cloud gaming; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 4: WVD week; Microsoft Surface event

Also: Awingu and BlackBerry; a look at cyber insurance; Windows Cloud Download; and a bit more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 27: Workspot funding; more integrations for BetterCloud

Also: iOS keyboard bug; Bromium; going passwordless with Microsoft; Safari 13; workspace portals; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 20: Horizon 7.10; Cameyo; Ping IPO

Also: iOS 13; Android 10; ID proofing; Microsoft Flows; Citrix CVAD updates; Exodus for MDM migration; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 6 & 13: More on VMworld; iPhone 11; Android 10

Also: Facial recognition; Samsung Note10+; Microsoft Desktop Analytics; employee experience; more on iOS hacks; Android Enterprise survey; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 30: VMworld 2019 Edition

Also: The Apple iPhone event will be September 10; Ping files for an IPO; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 23: VMware plans to acquire Carbon Black and Pivotal; iOS jailbreaks

Also: VMworld preview; Menlo Security; Citrix Managed Desktops; VDI Like a Pro; more on Black Hat; Zimperium; Adaptiva; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 16: WVD is “feature complete;” UEM Magic Quadrant

Also: Broadcom buys Symantec; more notes from Black Hat; Apple bug bounties; VMware DaaS on VMC on AWS; EMM resources; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 9: Microsoft licensing; Samsung DeX on PCs; Workspace ONE Access

Also: Ojas Rege on the podcast; BlackHat; WVD and Citrix Managed Desktops; iOS security; Google Cloud updates; BlackBerry and conditional access; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, Aug 2: Citrix announces microapp conference; VMware on Google Cloud

Also: Windows 10 security baselines; Banyan; Digita; ThinPrint; EUC at VMworld; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, July 26: Citrix concludes breach investigation; Workspace ONE Windows 10 momentum

Also: FIDO on iPhones; MobileIron zero sign-on; passwords vs. PINS; workspace portal apps; more on IGEL growth; Cylance can get tricked; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, July 19: Microsoft Inspire 2019; frontline employees

Also: deviceTRUST; mobile security; blogging tools; MobileIron; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, July 5 & 12: Windows Servicing; Microsoft partner licensing; passwordless logins

Also: Teradici; Identiverse; Google Safe Browsing; Boxer; SysTrack 9; Citrix Cloud FAS; Menlo Security; Android Project Mainline; Fuchsia; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 28: Identiverse 2019; G Suite protections; Raspberry Pi 4

Also: Google Cloud Print; Identiverse 2019; password-less future; SSCM; IGEL growth; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 21: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 1906

Also: iOS 13, Parallels RAS 17; Citrix Gateway; security key patching; Cameyo; Citrix Managed Desktop; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 14: More on iOS 13 (and more to come!); EMM market share

Also: Google and Chrome extensions; Android Management API; uberAgent for macOS; TeamRGE event; Byte-Sized Book; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 7: Apple WWDC 2019, Google Stadia

Also: Windows 10 performance; a deep dive on Xi Frame; a guide to Mac ransomware; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 24 & 31: Citrix Synergy news roundup; iPod Touch for the enterprise

Also: Huawei and Android Enterprise; mystery Microsoft OSes; Chrome ad blocking; Synergy partner news; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 17: Citrix Synergy previews; security in the headlines

Also: BetterCloud; Liquidware app cloaking; more on MSIX AppAttach; Windows XP patch; WhatsApp; mobile security; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 10: The future of App-V and a sneak peek at Microsoft AppAttach

Also: Xi Frame on Nutanix AHV; revoking user access; WVP printing and ThinPrint; Google I/O; MobileIron and SSO; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 3: Apple MDM in the news; Mosyle Auth; SmartDeploy

Also: Dell, VMware, and Microsoft partnership; Blue Cedar; Citrix Cloud; Workspace ONE AirLift; Citrix offers Equifax due to PII data in breach. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 26: Microsoft and Citrix earnings; Nerdio for Azure Core

Also: Workspace One Intelligent Hub; Chrome extensions; the year of VDI; 5G; DeX; passwords; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 19: More identity news; a look at Mosyle

Also: Passwords; conditional access; Android Security; Google Cloud Identity; ManageEngine; macOS 10.15; and a bit more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 12: Citrix Casting; Fleetsmith; Addigy; and more on Google Cloud Next 2019

Also: More on Oktane 2019; Citrix SD-WAN on GCP; Microsoft’s power play; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 5: Citrix news roundup and product updates; Oktane 2019

Also: Lots of identity; VDI optimizers; podcast with Kevin Goodman; Teradici; Quest UEM; Scalefusion; Android security; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 29: Cloud gaming streaming vendors are learning old VDI lessons

Also: Workspace ONE updates; Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops updates; Jamf Connect; FSLogix; Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus; Windows Virtual Desktop; and UEM for UEM. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 22: FSLogix freed; Windows Virtual Desktop preview; Apple and SAML

Also: iOS 12.2; Horizon 7.8; Intune updates; Blue Cedar funding; speaking events; and much more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 15: Android Q beta; cloud game streaming

Also: Citrix breach; workflow apps; UEM for cars; VDI use cases; Parallels RAS; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 8: RSA 2019 Edition

Also: Document co-authoring; Best of Synergy; Citrix CTPs; VMware vExperts; Windows Lite; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 1: Teradici on KVM, Post-Perimeter Security Alliance

Also: Mobile threat data, Intune Company Portal, Knox and OEMConfic, MWC 2019, VMC on Azure?, Android security, Fleetsmith and Chrome, and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 22: Android Enterprise Recommended for MSPs; Microsoft Office app

Also: Google news; Zimperium mobile threat data; client VMs; Samsung UNPACKED 2019; EMM resources; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 15: What will Apple do about sideloading and rogue enterprise certs?

Also: A closer look at Idaptive, AetherPal, Google accounts, and client virtualization; and other notes from the week. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 8: VMware and Jamf both make acquisitions

Also: iOS motion privacy; IGEL; Okta; Windows 7 extended support; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, February 1: Jamf Connect Azure AD password sync; audit your Apple enterprise apps

Also: Jamf growth; mobile SSO; Chrome extensions; cloud gaming; Windows Sandbox; VDI performance; Mosyle; iOS 12.2; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 25: Office 365 is finally in the Mac App Store

Also: Jamf Connect; Defining conditional access; MSIX; iOS apps and BYOD; MTD data from Symantec; Citrix earnings; IGEL; CloudJumper growth, and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 18: Outlook Mobile approved for all U.S. federal users; more on migrations

Also: Windows 7 EOL; Android Enterprise Recommended for EMM; Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph; and Ericom new CEO. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 11: Citrix Summit 2019 from an outside perspective

Also: Stratodesk and ThinPrint; ClearCube; Cisco; benchmarking audio; how to block sideloaded apps; G Suite accounts; Samsung; OneLogin; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, January 4: Android Enterprise Summit 2019 announced

Also: Citrix Analytics; Microsoft 365 SKUs; New Year’s content; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, December 21: Windows Sandbox; Corel buys Parallels, Appsulate

Also: Workspace ONE Intelligent Hub; Citrix strategy; HDX 1811; Android Enterprise Summit; G Suite sharing gets easier; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, December 14: HCL will buy BigFix from IBM; more mobile security stats

Also: Rachel Berry on Bromium Protected App; Wandera; iOS MDM and BYOD; thoughts on Windows 10 modern management; news about Work Profiles; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, December 7: Pixm endpoint-based anti-phishing; iOS BYOD challenges

Also: Edge will adopt Chromium; ShareFile’s password gaffe; Liquidware; more on WVD; Tangoe and MOBI; Jon Towles on identity; Safari and hardware security keys; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 30: AWS re:Invent; FSLogix; and all things mobile security

Also: Linux IoT; 2-in-1 devices; Workspace One Dell provisioning; Google Cloud; Nutanix; Ericom Connect 9.0; and much more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 16: Wandera and IBM Security; BlackBerry to buy Cylance

Also: Citrix and Sapho; Centrify and Idaptive; Samsung; SimpleMDM; 2019 predictions; streaming video games; blog recommendations: and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 9: VMworld 2018 Europe; Samsung Developer Conference

Also: Symantec acquired Appthority; Jamf Connect; Mac security; Zimperium; Google on Android PHAs; Liquidware; Okta; Citrix; ThinPrint and 10ZiG; Login VSI; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, November 2: Lookout’s push to continuous conditional access

Also: Android Enterprise COPE mode; Parallels RAS 16.5.1; Citrix Workspace updates; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 26: Windows 10 is at more than 50% in the enterprise

Also: Mobile malware; deploying MTD; Citrix earnings; IGEL OS updates; VMware Workspace One updates; GrayKey defeated (for now) and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 19: ManageEngine EUC news; Cloudhouse growth

Also: Login VSI on Win10 1809; Desktop App Assure; Google Play licensing; WVD and Citrix; having two phones; public cloud billing; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 12: Apple DEP security issues aren’t a huge problem

Also: TIghter Android data permissions; Centrify; Windows 10 1809; Citrix Workspace Hub; Google Cloud Next London; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, October 5: Intune Win32 app deployment preview; Windows 10 update

Also: iPhone Xs Max and Apple Watch 4; more Microsoft Ignite coverage; Win10 October update; Parallels and Thinprint collaboration; and plenty of security news. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 28: Citrix plans to resell Microsoft 365, become a CSP, and sell DaaS

Also: CloudJumper; Apple macOS Mojave and DEP security issues; Android Management API is out of beta; Fusion 11; all things Ignite; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 21: Citrix optimizations for Teams; Sapho

Also: All things iOS 12 and iPhone Xs; browser extensions; Microsoft Managed Desktop; notes from the field on MTD; iOS and Android security; ManageEngine; Workspace One Trust Network, and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 14: Get ready for iOS 12 and new iPhones

Also: The major US carriers announce a consumer IdP initiative; BlackBerry Security Summit; workflow apps as SaaS security; 4G for your office; and Workspace One Intelligence and Trust Network. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, September 7: Windows 10 versions will get 30 months of support

Also: Workspace One UEM 9.7 with Remote View; Lakeside; ESXi on ARM; Citrix and Microsoft partnership update; RemoteFX vGPU; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 31: All VMworld, all the time

Also: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1808 (the name is officially changed); Better; ThinPrint; and OEMconfig. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 24: Addigy addresses macOS DEP enrollment spoofing

Also: Liquidware public pre-briefing; Jamf Now; Knox 3.2; Android Enterprise; RDmi multi-tenancy; Exchange 2019; Parallels Desktop 14; Citrix; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 17: Mobile security week at BrianMadden.com

Also: Fleetsmith and MDM; Intune Hybrid Mode; Windows on Chromebooks; state of Android Enterprise; Fortnite and unknown sources; Pwned Passwords API; mobile phishing; and AutoIT. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 10: Android 9; DeX ditches the dock

Also: Workspace One UEM 9.6; Citrix Endpoint Management; Nutanix buys Frame; Citrix’s 90-day promise; Android BYOD; Google Cloud Identity; passwords in Chrome; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, August 3: Fleetsmith Intelligence; Microsoft Managed Desktop

Also: Cisco and Duo, E2EVC, Nerdio, Titan Security Key, Layering in 2018, MaaS360 Assistant, multi-user Windows 10, Bromium Protected Apps, and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, July 27: Google Cloud Next 2018; Protocol Wars Part 2; Cameyo

Also: Exchange 2019; Office 2019 price increase; Gartner UEM Magic Quadrant; Citrix earnings; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, July 20: iOS security; CloudJumper supports RDmi

Also: Okta and ScaleFT; Android antitrust; Protocol Wars; Login VSI; Always Connected PCs; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, July 13: Parallels RAS 16.5; iOS USB restricted mode

Also: Ivanti Unified Endpoint Manager, Tim Mangan’s TMEdit; Cloudhouse; Surface Go; Tintri; Yubikey; Leostream; and much more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 29: BlackBerry buzz; Gartner on Access Management

Also: RDmi; Ping acquires Elastic Beam; Citrix Workspace App; MobileIron Authenticator; iOS security; and machine learning. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 22: Mark T and Digital Ocean; Quest KACE updates

Also: Azure VM management tips, Fleetsmith Mac Management and Office 365, Progressive web apps, Hyper-V 2019, and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 15: Android enterprise progress keeps rolling along

Also: iOS 12 MDM features, a VFX/DaaS case study; Citrix Cloud licensing; MDM for Siri; Android Enterprise Recommended program expansion; Windows 10 on ARM reviews; and iOS 12 Siri Shortcuts. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 8: New Watson features in IBM MaaS360; Apple WWDC18

Also: NetScaler Gateway Service; Workspace One Send; Microsoft 365; Citrix Workspace App FAQ; SAP and Android; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, June 1: The VDI Like a Pro 2018 survey results are live

Also: iOS MDM needs to get better for BYOD (again!); a look at Alexa for Business management APIs and Citrix’s management plans; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 25: Appdome SSO+; Goodbye AirWatch branding

AirWatch is now “Workspace ONE Unified Endpoint Management.” Also: Citrix Secure Mail updates; Oktane 2018; Citrix’s ID strategy; CloudJumper Streaming App Services; and much more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 18: Workspace One Send; Android enterprise Partner Summit; MSIX

Also: Teradici’s broker is out; ThinPrint and MobileIron; AWS and NICE DCV; GrayKey and iOS 11.4; digital assistants in the enterprise; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 11: Citrix Synergy 2018 Edition

This week we also focus on Microsoft Build 2018 and Google I/O 2018. We’ll return to our usual format next week. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, May 4: Microsoft 365 updates; Dell Technologies World

Also: BlackBerry; FSLogix: VDI Like a Pro data; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 27: Citrix sues Workspot; ThinPrint Mobile Print

Also: New RDSH performance counters; Windows 10 CloudE; McAfee and Ericom; Synergy 2018 preview; and much more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 20: RSA 2018 edition; Azure Sphere

Also: RDSH on Server 2019, Garrison, Citrix Cloud adoption, Addigy, and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 13: Citrix announces NetScaler Gateway Service with SSO for SaaS/web apps

Also: Still no word on RDSH in Server 2019; MobileIron updates; Microsoft's Co-Management marketing push; and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, April 6: A new role for Brian Madden (the person)

Also: Updates in Citrix mobile apps; new AirWatch and VMware Identity Manager features; MSIX, and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 30: XenMobile resources; even more iOS 11.3 features; and E8 Security

Also: Microsoft reorg; SCCM 1802; Apple Business Manager; more MAM SDK partners for Appdome; and more! Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 23: G Suite will enable basic mobility management by default

Also: The future of RDSH in Windows Server 2019; a mobile-like push for Edge; early Windows 10 on Qualcomm reviews; and much more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 16: More EMMs integrate with Chrome management

Also: Android security, Intune Browser and AAD, Dropbox S-1, VMware Identity Manager, and Microsoft Teams. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 9: Horizon on VMware Cloud on AWS; Android P

Also: iOS 11.3 managed contacts, Android Management API, Android Management Experience, Mark Templeton and Workspot, FSLogix funding, and more. Continue Reading

Friday Notebook, March 2: MobileIron's Android metrics, Citrix joins AppConfig

Also: VMware and purpose-built devices, Microsoft and Pradeo, Citrix updates, and more. Continue Reading