Comments on: Citrix XenDesktop Remote PC. This has the potential to be a winner, what do you think?

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By: Andrew Morgan

Andrew Morgan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:02:54 +0000

Wow Gabe, Thanks for dropping by and sharing that link!

By: Gabe Carrejo

Gabe Carrejo — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:00:49 +0000

Andrew – thanks so much for this fantastic blog on #RemotePC! You bring up many valid points of “the why” of #RemotePC.

Mike: I demo’d PVS + #RemotePC at Synergy this year in the booth, and the “What’s New with XD/XA” session last month. It’s an awesome solution for cost effective VDI, and the recording is here at around 34:00 http://www.citrix.com/tv/#videos/5759 demo starts at 40:00

By: Andrew Morgan

Andrew Morgan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:29:42 +0000

That is a very good point Ingmar, now that users will have the ability to get the remote access and still maintain their local pc, user envy may become an even larger issue with everyone looking for this kind of access!

Hadn’t considered that! We’ll need to be super sneaky in hiding the desktops away from other users.

By: Ingmar Verheij

Ingmar Verheij — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:19:06 +0000

Hi Andrew,

I agree that Remote PC is a great addon to the Flexcast model. Not only because it allows you to serve those square pegs an acceptable solution, but mostly because it can jumpstart a project.

With Remote PC you can offer remote access to your existing environment while you gradually built a new XenApp and/or XenDesktop farm, moving some of the users to a centralized environment while keeping some of them on their fat clients.

The one thing I am afraid of is the ease at which you might move users from a centralized (managed) environment to a Remote PC solution. It’s easy to “Remote their PC” but in the end, all users want this. It’s the same thing you explained in previous posts / presentations; the moment users see something fancier with their collegaues they won’t settle for less.

Ingmar

By: Mike Stanley (@mikestanley)

Mike Stanley (@mikestanley) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 04:16:58 +0000

I think Remote PC will help out in every way you mention and more. I expect I will be able to leverage it to get easier buy-in from the class of power users who have beefy PCs and really just want secure high-quality remote access into them. I also hope to be able to utilize some of the PCs in our labs during off-hours. I think combining a PVS-booting PC with Remote PC might get me the best of both worlds in some areas.