New and Exciting Features Coming to Windows 365 from Ignite 2023
Ignite 2023 has been an amazing experience this year, meeting some incredible people, but I wanted to take a little bit of time to catch people up on the Windows 365 capabilities introduced this week at Ignite. Let’s get started and breakdown what has changed. Overview of the New Windows 365 Capabilities at Ignite 2023 […]
Demystifying the Microsoft Authentication Broker for Intune on iOS
Recently, I was working with a new client who is having issues with Azure AD/Entra Conditional Access. Essentially their issues stemmed from requests on iOS devices that were missing device information when authenticating to Microsoft services. Historically, AAD-CA has never been the easiest Microsoft tech to comprehend or work with. This is something I was […]
Bringing Neurodiversity to VMware Explore 2023: Barcelona
Back in August, I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with a few amazing individuals as I highlighted here. It was an absolutely amazing time sharing the stage with Lauren and Phillip Monk (who in the last few months I have gotten to know and has been great for me). Many of us with […]
Windows 365 and VMware App Volumes Delivers Instant Apps to Cloud PCs
Recently, I covered the first piece of the VMware Horizon and Windows 365 integration. Accessibility inside of the Horizon client and the Blast Extreme protocol elevate Windows 365 in a huge way. Today, we are covering the second part of this integration with App Volumes. Something I am coining “Instant Apps to Windows 365” handles […]
Okta Desktop Password Sync Delivers Platform SSO to MacOS
Back in 2022, I wrote about a neat announcement called Platform SSO. The road to delivering it for many vendors have been SO DAMN LONG. Finally, in the second half of 2023, we are starting to see vendors deliver what I dub Enterprise Connect 2.0 (one could argue it would really be Enterprise Connect 3.0 […]
Deep Dive into the New Microsoft Teams
Late last week, Microsoft brought the new Microsoft Teams application to GA for Windows and MacOS. It has been a long time coming as the experiment of putting lipstick on the pig that was Skype and Lync and building something special. Today, we will discuss the architecture, show you how to get ready, talk about […]
Microsoft Entra Conditional Access Elevates Your Windows 365 Strategy
So, you rolled out Windows 365 and followed my blogs and did all of your fancy things for your offshore resources throughout Europe and Asia. With these being remote workers, you have concerns about them using Windows 365 to access your Microsoft environment from untrusted or insecure endpoints. Maybe you can just restrict things from […]
Workspace ONE Delivery Optimizations are Coming
Recently at VMware Explore, an under-the-radar session about the new cloud native Workspace ONE enhancements took place. This session covered the new enhancements that happened behind the scenes on the platform. Most of what was discussed, was mentioned in this article a year or so ago. The major takeaway is that we are moving to […]
New Best Friends: Windows 365 and VMware Horizon
On Monday, VMware and Microsoft officially kicked off a foundational public preview that was announced almost a year ago: The Windows 365 and VMware Horizon integration that would bring “stuff” to Windows 365. We weren’t really sure what “stuff” that would be. Now, we know that some of those things are: Today, we will show […]
Workspace ONE UEM 2306: Reviewing the Biggest WS1 Platform Update in 2023
Workspace ONE UEM has had a bit of stagnation over the last 12 months, while they work on their new platform and architecture. With VMware Explore only a week away, their timing is impeccable as Workspace ONE UEM 2306 launches. We’re going to take a good look at 3 huge capabilities they’re introducing: (1) MacOS […]