Last month, Microsoft announced the general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), their DaaS offering that enables organizations to run Windows 10 and Windows 7 virtual desktops on Azure. With Microsoft Ignite around the corner, I spoke with Ben Murphy, Global Director of Product Integrations at Lakeside, to learn the latest on WVD. Lifeguard IT…
The wait is over! Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Virtual Desktop, a new service that streamlines the delivery of Windows desktops and applications on Azure. Lakeside has been working alongside Microsoft on WVD as a value-added services provider to help set customers up for success. Earlier this year, we announced our free…
The September KB4515384 cumulative update to Windows 10 1903 is the latest patch to make headlines for introducing showstopping bugs. It’s updates like this one that have some desktop admins nostalgic for the days before Windows as a service (WaaS) when updates were larger, but less frequent. The optional quality update was released to fix…
In 2018, Adobe announced a series of changes to their licensing to which many of us have already started adapting. But what are the Adobe licensing changes, which dates should you be looking out for and what do you need to do about them? If you are an IT administrator or a license manager for Adobe…
It’s almost time for the biggest virtualization and cloud computing event of the year: VMworld 2019. Are you ready? We at Lakeside are looking forward to connecting with attendees and sharing the latest version of our product, SysTrack 9.0, which combines digital experience monitoring and AIOps for cross-domain workspace monitoring and automated resolution with minimal…
Remember when we switched from CDs to streaming? Few imagined how streaming could be sustainable for the music industry and, although many fought arduously against it, eventually they embraced the change and shifted music’s entire sales model, forever. Something that was seemingly not able to be managed and monitored became a great source of growth for…
This year, Citrix Synergy’s theme was Delivering the Future of Work. In anticipation of the conference, CMO Tim Minahan expressed, “Increasingly, competitiveness is being determined by how well companies can harness technology to innovate faster and drive new levels of employee engagement and productivity that improve the customer experience and business results.” Employee engagement and…
“The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser” doesn’t sound like a headline that would come from Microsoft, but in a recent company blog post, Chris Jackson, Microsoft’s Worldwide Lead for Cybersecurity, outlined the case against IE. Now, deciding whether to delete Internet Explorer is easy enough for the average home user, but it’s…
If you have Java in your environment you may have already heard that in 2018, Oracle announced deep Java licensing changes to Java Standard Edition (SE) that took effect in January 2019. These changes have left the community with many unanswered questions about licensing and about their environments, not in the least of which is, “What should…
SysTrack provides customers with enhanced visibility into end-user computing environments Lakeside Software announces SysTrack is available to customers of VMware Cloud™ on AWS. VMware Cloud on AWS brings together VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software and elastic, bare-metal infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to give organizations consistent operating model and application mobility for…
The evergreen IT model is supposed to make upgrades less painful for IT while providing a more modern experience for end users, but many IT teams are still wary of how this change will affect their processes. With many organisations pledging to migrate to Windows 10 this year, it’s time to explore the challenges—and benefits—of…
If you’ve been paying attention to announcements coming out of Microsoft Ignite, you’ve probably heard about the launch of Windows Virtual Desktop, which is a wonderful new option for streamlined delivery of desktops and applications. Lakeside Software is happy to announce that we are partnering with Microsoft to help customers achieve a great end-user experience with the…