On this episode, Brian & Gabe welcomed Tom Campbell, a VMware staff engineer (also from Ohio like Brian & Gabe!) who walked us through how he approaches VMware Horizon design projects. This podcast is great for people like us who have been working with Citrix since the 1990s but who haven't really dug into Horizon. What's the same? What's different? What's important to know? In this episode, we discussed: How real is the non-persistent desktop today, and how real is the ability to give a non-persistent desktop a persistent look and feel? How do you manage OS image sprawl? How VMware H ..read more

In this episode, we invited Naveen Pitchandi, VMware's product management lead for all things Apple. Our conversation covered: Apple TV, and tvOS management. (Really Gabe and Brian were just impressed that was a thing!) Mac and macOS management in the enterprise, including history, the community, and how that's evolved over the years. iPhone / iOS 13 user enrollment. iPadOS and differences & similarities to managing Macs and iPhones. Links mentioned in the show: VMware's "Apple in the Enterprise with Workspace ONE" YouTube show VMware's open source "Replay" app which converts an Apple T ..read more

Earlier this month, Gabe was at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando while Brian was at VMworld 2019 in Barcelona. We covered all the EUC announcements from Barcelona on the last show, so this week we're digging into the various EUC announcements Microsoft made at Ignite, as well as what they mean for VMware. Specific topics included: What exactly is Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktops (WVD) How VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure will soon support the features of Windows Virtual Desktop. An overview of Microsoft's "App Attach" technology & announcement (based on FSLogix technology which is whe ..read more

Now that both VMworld 2019 US and Europe editions are over, Brian & Gabe sat down to discuss all the EUC-related announcements. (And holy cow there were a lot!) Here's what we discussed on this episode: Employee Experience announcements Intelligent Hub Virtual Assistant VMware AirLift 2.0 Day 0 / Candidate Experience Intelligent Hub Intelligent Hub multifactor authentication HID Integreation / Intelligent Hub Passport New integrations with Jira, BMC Remedy, and PagerDuty (in addition to existing ones, ServiceNow, etc.) Workspace ONE Privacy Guard (with SDK) VMware EUC Zero Trust initiativ ..read more

This week on the Definitely Not Official VMware EUC Podcast, guest Jon Towles joins Brian Madden and Gabe Knuth. Jon is known as "Mobile Jon", blogging at mobile-jon.com and tweeting via @m0bilej0n. Jon has been a mobile architect for a long time, and the conversation today was awesome, touching on: How Jon made the transition from retail store manager to enterprise mobility architect. How "mobile people" can pick intentional topics to learn about to advance their careers. Why Jon loves VMware Identity Manager and hates the name change to Workspace ONE Access. Where VMware Workspace ONE Acces ..read more

The band is back together! In this episode, Brian Madden welcomes Gabe Knuth to VMware. They discuss what Gabe's been up to since the two of them worked together three years ago. Gabe talks about his time since leaving BrianMadden.com, including his role doing product marketing for FSLogix and what it was like working at a company that was acquired by Microsoft. They also discuss Gabe's new role a VMware—doing product marketing for VMware Horizon Cloud—and what's happening with VMware and EUC in general. BTW, at the end of the podcast, the sound fades out in the middle of Gabe talking. I don't ..read more

Brian Madden speaks with VMware's Jason Roszak, a product manager leading up how VMware Workspace ONE manages and secures Windows 10 clients. In this podcast, we talked about: Windows 10 Modern Management What you can do with it, and its out-of-the-box limitations Modern Management versus legacy management like Microsoft SCCM How VMware Workspace ONE extends the Windows 10 Modern Management limitations Windows 10 Autopilot (Out Of Box Experience / OOBE) Windows 10 device security, without ownership or domain joins Comanagement / Coexistence, where VMware Workspace ONE can live side-by-side wi ..read more