Videos

BriForum 2015 Denver - Andy Paul - Designing Your Citrix XenApp 7.6 Solutions: A-Z

This session will be a comprehensive overview of the latest in Citrix XenApp architecture.
BriForum 2015 - EUC Layering Smackdown: Comparing AppVolumes, Unidesk, FlexApp, and Mirage

Layering technologies can help ease application management for both physical and virtual desktops. There are many different technologies that fall under the layering umbrella, even though many of them work in dramatically different ways.

BriForum 2015 - (Denver) Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Mobile Infrastructure

Virtual mobile infrastructure is like VDI, but with Android virtual machines and mobile client apps. Certainly there are challenges - some obvious and some not obvious - but there's definitely a place for it.
BriForum 2015 - Avoid Common Mistakes and Implement Best Practices with VMware Horizon PCoIP

This session reviews the most common mistakes that customers make in their VMware Horizon and PCoIP deployments, and provides best practices for configuring server, storage, networks, clients, operating systems, applications, and the protocol.
BriForum 2015 Denver - Ian Parker - Getting the Most Out of the SysInternals Tools

The SysInternals suite of tools contains some of the most useful tools ever written for IT professionals. Tools like Process Monitor and Process Explorer have probably solved more application delivery and virtualization problems than any tool ever written.
BriForum 2015 Denver - David Stafford - I, For One, Welcome Our New Enterprise Consumer Overlords

The battle is over. Resistance has proven futile.
BriForum 2015 Denver - Joe Shonk - Hyper-V Over SMB 3.0, Second Edition

Last year's Hyper-V over SMB 3.0, Second Edition
BriForum 2015 - I've Got 99 Problems and Folder Redirection is Every One of Them!

Whether you love it, hate it, or feel indifferently, folder redirection is invariably the cornerstone of data access and profile optimization strategies for every Windows desktop environment.
BriForum 2015 - I've Rolled Out EMM, What Now? How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MAM

You've handed out devices, rolled out EMM, and deployed it on all your devices.
BriForum 2015 - Low-Level Print Analysis: A Deep Dive Into Windows Printing

Printing is one of the biggest pains in a SBC type environment and this is your chance for find out why. This session takes a deep, dark look into Windows printing.
BriForum 2015 Denver - Lightning Rounds

BriForum 2015 Denver - Lightning Rounds
BriForum 2015 - Master Your Mac OS X Operating System with Configuration Manager 2012 R2

Learn how to use System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager to manage those sexy Apple Mac OS X devices. Understand how to deploy your Configuration Manager clients, wrap and deploy software, and manage your OS X environment with Compliance Settings.
BriForum 2015 Denver - Jason Conger - Mobile Enterprise Application Platform Smackdown

Building or virtualizing mobile applications for enterprises sounds hard, but it really isn't. Mobile end users need only a small part of the traditional desktop application's functionality.
BriForum 2015 - Maximizing Scalability! Understanding and Optimizing the Scalability of VDI and RDS

Scalability is always a hot topic when it comes to RDS and VDI workloads.
BriForum 2015 - New Insights and Advanced Deployment Tips for Azure RemoteApp

In the time since the initial release of Azure RemoteApp in 2014, Microsoft's engineering team has learned A LOT from their customers. They will use this session at BriForum to share the info you need to successfully evaluate and deploy it yourself.
BriForum 2015 - How to Use PowerShell Desired State Configuration to Automate Your Environment

Join us for an exploration of PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC): a powerful tool for control and automation of a Windows server environment. Topics to be covered include: a review of the DSC architecture, its requirements, and the steps necessary to configure the pull server and its clients.
BriForum 2015 - Pods, Blocks, HCI, UCI...WTF?: Making Sense of All the Convergence Hype

Pods, Blocks, HCI, UCI...WTF?
BriForum 2015 - RDSH versus VDI: 2015 Edition (With a Dose of Persistent versus Non-Persistent)

Brian first presented "Terminal Server versus VDI" at BriForum 2007 (with Benny Tritsch), but this topic just won't die! Both technologies continued to evolve and the world is very different in 2015.
BriForum 2015 Denver - Ryan Will and Drew Walz - Sequence Like a Boss

In a continuation of the popular Sequencing for Success series, learn how to sequence like a boss. Just because an application doesn't work at first pass, it doesn't mean it can't be virtualized.
BriForum 2015 - What It is, Where/How to Use It, and Why Most of What You Hear About It is Wrong

The next wave that vendors are jumping on, is trying to re-define, and make money on storage virtualization, aka software defined storage. Are you sick and tired of having to navigate and correct FUD?
BriForum 2015 Denver - Rick Agnew - Strategies to Optimize Your VDI OS Gold Images

Image management often becomes a major focus of VDI deployments, but you shouldn't spend all your time tweaking and redeploying golden images. Join us for an exploration of system tools and techniques to optimize Windows desktop OS performance, and reduce image size resulting in reduced SAN storage requirements.
BriForum 2015 - (Denver) Tech Bake-Off Reloaded: An Independent Review of XenDesktop vs Horizon View

In the original Tech Bake-off session in 2012, we discussed the bake-off framework and provided various tips from the field. Fast forward to 2015, and technologies such as vGPU, hyper convergence, and storage architecture enhancements have been introduced into the end user computing space.
BriForum 2015 - How I Swapped My Execs' iPads and Laptops with Surface Pro 3s, And Lived!

Back in 2013, Zach Hughes told the audience at BriForum Chicago that Windows tablets were a better platform for mobility than iPads+EMM.
BriForum 2015 - The App Whisperer (Latest Techniques in Sequencing)

Everyone can agree that the worst part of delivering desktops is the apps. In this session, Tim shows you the latest techniques to prepare and analyze apps virtualized using Microsoft App-V augmented by free tools.