Posted in Tutorials

VDI Group Policy Optimisation Template and Script

Continuing on with my last post about optimising VDI guest services based on the Optimizing Windows 8 for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure session at MSS I have now created a Group Policy Object that performs all the services, registry and other customisations that was mentioned in the session. So.. What I have done is taken Carl Luberti and Jeff Stokes Windows…

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What services to disable to optimize Windows for VDI

In my previous VDI blog post about configuring Windows to work best in a VDI environment I mentioned a few service that should be disabled to improve performance. However a a recent session at Microsoft Management Summit 2013 called Optimizing Windows 8 for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure has provided a substantially longer list of recommend services configuration for VDI. Below is…

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Group Policy for Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI)

Remote Desktop Virtualisation is a feature of Windows that allows your users to run windows running remotely from server hardware. This is almost an identical concept with how Terminal Services (a.k.a. Remote Desktop Services, a.k.a. Remote Desktop Session Host) works where the users is sending keyboard and mouse messaged to the server and then receives the screen updates back. It…

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TechEd Video: Optimizing Group Policy in Virtual Desktop (VDI) Environments

Speaker: Darren Mar-Elia Source: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/WCL309

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