Should you Convert a Desktop to a Dumb Terminal?
You’ve rolled out a shiny new VDI solution, but most of your user base is on good physical desktops that don’t need replacing… and that you don’t have the budget to replace with thin clients yet. What do you do? I think that most VDI rollouts get to the point where they’re asking that question eventually. There are two main answers that you get (ignoring the “replace them anyway!” opinion). You can run your View Client as an Application on the desktop or you can run it as the desktop’s Shell. In my opinion, they are both viable solutions... but they both certainly have drawbacks. Let’s talk about the Application option first. The View Client is an application, just like any other. That means that you can place a shortcut on the user’s desktop and, after they sign in, they can start it and log in to their VDI Desktop. If they user needs to get out of their VDI Desktop, it’s very obvious that they can simply minimize the window (or even c...