I have always thought about VDI as a mean to simplify the distributed infrastructure using thin clients with basically no on-board configurations.
The only thing that I found to be still bound to the local thin client config is printers. Everything in a VDI deployment is typically bound to a user but printers. Printers need to be bound the the physical local device (doesn't matter whether it's a local network printer in the office or a locally attached printer by mean of LPT/COM/USB).
Printers are indeed the only thing that prevents a VDI administrator to distribute thin clients with 0 configuration but the connection broker IP address (which would be the same for all the devices).
Not sure what I am trying to achieve with this post though ... comments ? thoughts ? your experience ? I guess Steve will have something to say ..........
Massimo.
Massimo Re Ferre'
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