One of my favorites episodes of the IT Crowd

Then there is the great scene too:

If you haven’t caught a show or two, seasons 1 – 4 are available on NetFlix and are just too funny, a must watch for anyone in IT.

You’re welcome — I’m glad that you’ve found my blog useful!

This particular post about use cases was written fairly early on in our implementation. We’re much further along now and have discovered even more quirky use-case examples. Groups like “faculty” aren’t as homogeneous as we would think/hope/like, and as a result we’re making case-by-case determinations about VDI for members of this group. Other groups are much easier to apply a common solution to, across different users.

I’ve written more about this discovery, as well as other “ah-ha” moments in a blog post on VMware’s site. Check it out, if you have a moment.

Good luck with your VDI pilot!

Rae

Blogging, like the internet at large, is compelling, attractive, promising, and simultaneously overbearing, repulsive and decadent. Nothing new really, just a new, interactive delivery system, another media revolution and major uptick in availability of content.

Having successfully virtualized our server farm, we hope to soon pilot a virtual desktop. Interesting to read about the difficulty in “pre-customizing” a Windows desktop. That will be my challenge as the “desktop guy”. It’s important to me to make things convenient and transparent for my various user constituencies and the physically imaged standalone desktop has been amenable to that treatment. Thought Windows 7 made it more difficult than ever (we skipped Win 6- Vista).

I like your framing of use cases (and the “granular” examination thereof) as a key consideration. The small collection of user communities, faculty, staff, students, all have different needs. At least we have going for us that all our users are getting more savvy each year as software also gets better. Nice symbiosis isn’t it? Sure would be great though if that upper layer (yeah, Active Directory) consistently did what it has promised.