Webinar Archive

Roaming profiles are a case study in good intentions. They try to capture user configurations, and they try to work everywhere. They just don't accomplish the job well. Judgment: #FAIL. But, you already know this. What you might not know is that an entire ecosystem of user management solutions have stepped up to fill the roaming profiles void. These solutions use different architectures with smarter features to deliver a better user experience. They're also much easier on you the IT administrator. Judgment: #WINNING. Do you want happier users, if only because happier users make for a happier IT pro? Join Greg Shields of Concentrated Technology and Jason E. Smith of Liquidware Labs as they discuss six ways these roaming profile-replacing User Management Solutions are turning a big #FAIL into an even bigger #WIN for businesses everywhere.

Moving from a controlled desktop virtualization pilot into broader production can be tricky without having the right solutions in place. Adding and scaling the production environment with new users and new applications can also have a dramatic impact on system performance. Best practices dictate that desktop virtualization initiatives have end-to-end monitoring solutions in place right from the start which is the key to greater utilization and ROI from the VDI investment, not to mention preventing unplanned downtime. This webinar from experts at Liquidware Labs and SolarWinds will be moderated by VDI expert Doug Brown of DABCC and will walk through VDI monitoring strategies, best practices and use cases, including: Validation: that is creating a before/after picture of desktops to ensure that virtual desktops perform as well as physical desktops. Diagnostics: understanding where problems arise and getting to remediation quickly. Utilization: Being able to take full advantage of the capacity of your systems resources without negative impacts. Capacity Planning: Modeling changes to the environment and planning needed capacity well in advance of implementation.

If you've spent any time focused on supporting desktops it's likely you might be feeling the pains of trying to make roaming profiles work for you even though you've outgrown them. No worries, your users can still enjoy a portable profile without the challenges that come with Roaming Profiles in complex environments. Experts Greg Shields, Senior Partner and Principal Technologist at Concentrated Technology, and Jason E. Smith, Director of End User Solutions at Liquidware Labs, discuss five ways you can make user profiles work for you. This session is sure to help you not only deliver a functional desktop to your users - you can deliver your users THEIR personalized desktops. And that's sure to make everyone happy.

Now is the time to plan your 2013 desktop/workspace update and delivery strategy. But how can you be sure you to choose the right path for your organization with so many options? In this webinar, Tyler Rohrer, Liquidware Labs Co-Founder, and Barb Goldworm, President and Chief Analyst of FOCUS, review the events of the past year (including new VMware and Citrix acquisitions and offerings, new storage options, the introduction of Windows 8, and the most recent progress with cloud) so that you can factor these trends into your 2013 desktop and end-user computing strategies. After viewing this webinar you will have a clear sense of how to successfully deliver desktops and applications, optimize your virtual desktop delivery infrastructure, minimize the impact to your organization and IT staff AND make your users happy - all while getting the best long term return on your investment.

Most customers form their impressions of how good a business is through their interactions with employees at Branch Offices. Equipping your Branch Office workers with robust desktops to provide quality customer services is critical to keeping customers happy. Join Liquidware Labs co-founder, J. Tyler "T-Rex" Rohrer, and VMware Reference Architect Engineer, Rory Clements, as they outline how the VMware Branch Office Desktop architecture, with Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX, can help organizations deliver fast, secure, reliable, and available access to applications and data with anytime, anywhere desktop virtualization.

Liquidware Labs Director of User Virtualization Solutions, Jason Smith and Virtualization Expert Doug Brown (DABCC.com) as they discuss the newest features on the 5.2 release of ProfileUnity FlexApp. Features to be highlighted include: User Rights Management for FlexApp, Run with Administrative Privileges, and Centralized Data Migration Reporting. Plus, get a sneak peek at version 5.5, including an upgraded GUI and Department Installed Applications (DIA) functionality!

You may be confused by other solutions providers who are touting "layering" as best option to reduce virtual desktop infrastructure expense as well as handle department and user installed applications. But is this really your best option for your virtual environments? Learn about how ProfileUnity works with FlexApp to deliver user installed applications (and soon departmental installed applications) and why we chose the technology approach we did.

Come and join VP of Customer Services as he presents an overview of what is new and improved in the latest release of Stratusphere FIT and Stratusphere UX - the industry leading assessment and diagnostics/monitoring solutions for virtual desktops.

Yes, the long-awaited general availability of FlexApp is almost here and this is your opportunity to get a sneak preview of this amazing product to see how it can impact your business. By insulating the base image and underlying operating system from traditional application installations, FlexApp can lower the cost of supporting Windows environments, streamline application virtualization strategies, and make managing desktops easier than ever before. And FlexApp is the perfect complement to thin application technologies in your customers' environments. Join Liquidware Labs Director of User Virtualization Products, Jason Smith, as he demos FlexApp and explains its applications in desktop virtualization environments.

With the impending demise of Windows XP, many companies are looking for tools to streamline the process of migrating from XP to Windows 7 and take out a lot of the slow, error-prone manual effort from this upgrade. Liquidware Labs' partners have a golden opportunity to capitalize on this need by offering our solutions to address to major pain-points of migrations. First, an assessment with Stratusphere FIT captures the inventory of all machines, applications and OS running in the current environment. Secondly, customers can replace roaming profiles with ProfileUnity before the upgrade to make moving user profiles and data a snap during the migration. Join Liquidware Labs Director of User Virtualization Products, Jason Smith, as he outlines adding these services and solutions to your offerings.

Liquidware Labs co-founder and desktop virtualization evangelist Tyler Rohrer explains why Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX was selected as the only virtual desktop performance monitoring and diagnostic tool by Cisco for its Validated Design VXI architecture. Unlike other solutions out there, Stratusphere UX goes beyond monitoring to provide validation, diagnostics, modeling and capacity planning support as you scale and update your environment. If you have virtual desktops in production, you should not miss this informative webex. Tyler will explore real-world use cases to show how Liquidware Labs customers leveraged this great solution to address issues as well as to optimize their environments.

Liquidware Labs co-founder Tyler Rohrer explains how a singular vision early on drove the company to develop a desktop transformation methodology for the four pillars of a virtual desktop project: assessment, design, migration and validation. Tyler goes beyond theories to explain in very practical terms why each of these steps is required and builds upon each other and how each step is specifically supported by a Liquidware Labs solution. At the end of this webinar, you will understand how to: advance through a virtual desktop project with confidence, leverage real, highly accurate data about your company for planning and decision-making, ensure virtual desktop performance is on par with your physical desktops, manage costs in every phase, and perform optimization for easier desktop management over time

Stratusphere UX provides desktop visibility to desktop administrators who need to deliver applications and data to users with a consistent user experience on a virtualized and highly converged network. Stratusphere UX tracks hundreds of metrics for a highly accurate, objective and methodical way to measure users' experience. Compare platforms, protocols, endpoints, storage, network, and resource pool reservations -- by application, user, group, and over custom time periods. Unlike solutions that only monitor system resources, Stratusphere UX goes beyond to pulse user, group and application usage, hardware and software inventory for Citrix XenDesktop and VMware View environments as well as physical Windows PCs, endpoints, related infrastructure servers and storage as well as support for various Linux distributions.

Thinking about VDI? Moving users to virtual desktops? We'll share our best practices for VDI Assessment & Design as we walk you through the process of using Stratusphere FIT to design your next virtual desktop transformation.

Windows 7 migration from Windows XP/2000 and Server 2003 is essential to ensure that your organization's staff does not experience any loss of data or desktop personalization. Jumping into Windows 7 without a migration plan can cause major headaches including: data loss, productivity loss, and user adoption hesitation. Liquidware Labs ProfileUnity provides your organization with a clear path to Windows 7 or any other next generation desktop that you are planning.