Microsoft Teams and Citrix Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) certified support for Calling and Meetings Good news, after a long time coming, Microsoft Teams calling and meetings (audio, video and sharing) are now available on VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) with Citrix. Microsoft Teams chat and collaboration has been supported in VDI for a long time, and now with the Citrix platform, calling and meeting functionality are also supported. Audio, video and sharing are handled via WebRTC on the Citrix platform. VDA-side HDX services use an API to interface with the Microsoft Teams ..read more

Microsoft Teams Advanced Communications license for recording and contact center API and advanced features Thanks to Matt Landis for first spotting this (his company does some great attendant console and contact center software SFB and Teams). At Microsoft Inspire, in session IDB151, Build on the Microsoft Teams momentum to develop your Meetings, Calling and Devices practice, Microsoft noted a new user license called “Advanced Communications”. Angela Donohue, said the license would be available later this month. At this time I can’t find any public documentation about the new license. I wil ..read more

Windows Virtual Desktop Spring Update enters Public Preview On the 30th of April the Spring Update Release of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) entered Public Preview.   This means anyone can go to the Azure Portal and deploy an WVD Workspace and test the new capability. This article discusses the new updates and capabilities in this new release, as well as changes and other items you need to consider when deploying Spring Update WVD deployments.   "Spring Update"   First thing - the name, "Spring Update". WVD is now a first class Azure service (more on that below). Azure does ..read more

What is Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop – Easy to deploy, a guide on WVD for Citrix experts I would love to start with to share what is Windows Virtual Desktop, It is a desktop and app virtualization service that runs on the cloud. Important to understand that here's what you can do when you run Windows Virtual Desktop on Azure: Set up a multi-session Windows 10 deployment that delivers a full Windows 10 with scalability Virtualize Office 365 ProPlus and optimize it to run in multi-user virtual scenarios Provide Windows 7 virtual desktops with free Extended Security Updates Bri ..read more

Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualization service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimizations for Office 365 ProPlus, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. Deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes, and get built-in security and compliance features. When you want to use the default images without too much alterations (because you only need to publish simple applications or just a desktop/browser/etc), you ..read more

Microsoft Teams on M365 is a collaborative workspace that facilitates a modern way of working. It is especially helpful for remote teams, although it offers great benefits to in-house employees as well. Microsoft Teams can help boost team productivity, increase collaboration across departments, and help your company complete tasks in a quick, efficient manner. When you connect third-party solutions to Microsoft Teams. In nutshell the best collaborative solution is Microsoft Team and there are lots of smart devices which are equipped with MS teams to providing the smart meeting room syst ..read more

Last month I had a webinar about “Azure security and consideration, where one of my slides I mentioned about Azure Sentinel solution which I wanted to cover more in depth here in this blogpost.  Now the basic thing you need to understand is that Sentinel is a module/solution which runs on top of Log Analytics. Log Analytics as a standalone component is used by a lot of other services in Azure as well, just to give an example. Log Analytics can be used in combination with Azure Monitor, Network Watcher, Azure Automation, Application Insight, Diagnostics Logs, Application logs and so on. Ove ..read more

Microsoft extended the hybrid cloud solutions in Azure and announced Azure Arc, which is designed to extend Azure Management to any infrastructure. In the new world where organizations run servers, containers, and applications across multi-cloud environments, on-premises locations, and the edge, managing these hybrid resources becomes challenging. Azure Arc enables cloud-native Azure management across any infrastructure and also allows you to run Azure data services to be deployed anywhere. It includes hybrid server management, Kubernetes and Azure data services. Azure Arc Overview As yo ..read more