I am talking about Windows 10 multi session, and paired with Azure Windows Virtual Desktop it’s now got modern workplace engineers like me excited!
Windows Virtual Desktop is now a compelling complementary service to Microsoft 365 fat client modern workplace deployments, now I know that statement may have just lost most of my audience but for those who have stuck around… thanks, I will try to explain.
Traditionally choosing a solution model has been VDI (Terminal Services) or Fat client, you choose one and take the good with the bad.
VDI has always been good at easily putting controls in place to prevent data loss and control access and security, not to mention application management can be easier as you are often reducing the number of client installations you have to maintain. let’s not beat around the bush, it can be expensive to implement and media reliant services and content have always been a challenge. Over the last decade the work environment has become media rich which has pushed IT departments to transition to decentralised solutions.
Now when a business has a working modern solution based on Windows 10 client machines and SaaS services like Microsoft 365 it might dismiss the modern VDI implementations as outdated with no benefit.
Well I am going to challenge that way of thinking!
The new Azure Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is a dynamic elastic service that can automatically adjust to a business's resource demands both out and in, thus controlling cost so you only pay for what you need when you need it which breaks through the expense barrier with traditional VDI solutions.
So that just leaves the why, well I have seen a couple of reasons recently around the why so I will use them as they are real world scenarios / success stories.
Not everyone in an organisation normally has a portable device, and allowing staff to connect to company online services from BYOD devices from the home can have its challenges, sudden COVID19 lockdowns have definitely taught us that! you can have a secure VDI service that is staged with all business apps and data access that will automatically expand when you need it, now that’s pretty cool.
Kind of the same as my last point but, in the event of a fire people are not always going to be thinking of grabbing their beloved company laptop on the way out and are still going to need a way to work after the fire department has done and the smoke has cleared.
The bonus is you may even have one of those horrible business line apps, the ones you just can’t get “into the cloud” but you may just be able to use WVD to deliver it as a remote app and only use the full desktop when you hit defcon5 and send everyone home.
WVD can give a business this flexibility and a pretty good plan B when it needs it. There are some pretty good partner solutions in the Azure market place out there from the likes of “Nerdio” which will automate everything for you so you can almost set and forget.
Call it VDI or as it was when I first administered it back in the old days… “Terminal Services”, it just doesn’t matter.
VDI is back and it is worth checking out again!
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