TEAMS OPTIMIZATION
TEAMS is critical for today’s hybrid workforce. We are excited to announce the availability and support for Microsoft TEAMS optimization on any IGEL OS-powered endpoints connecting to AVD and W365.
IGEL OS offered support for media offloading for a while, starting with enabling Zoom VDI for AVD offloading and rendering the audio and video on the endpoint itself.
The effects of seamlessly utilizing the available resources on the hardware during your AVD/W365 desktop session provide significant benefits:
- USER EXPERIENCE - By offloading unified communications solutions processes to endpoints, user experience goes up as the endpoint has abundant resources
- DENSITY - CPU/RAM load at virtual desktops is reduced by offloading unified communication to endpoints; it increases density at the virtual desktops.
- COST - Higher density on multi-user instances requires fewer instances running, leading directly to lower costs for workloads.
Microsoft Teams optimization is now fully supported in IGEL OS using Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365.
QUOTES:
WINDOWS 365
Windows 365 combines the power and security of the cloud with the familiar versatility and simplicity of a PC. IGEL OS provides the most secure, cost-effective way to provide employees access to their Cloud PC from any device located anywhere. The instant boot, W365, Cloud PC version of IGEL OS allows any endpoint device to securely access Windows 365 Cloud PC with unprecedented speed and simplicity. IGEL OS is the seamless, secure, and simple way to access W365 Cloud PCs.
The IGEL OS Cloud PC Edition provides a pre-configured version of IGEL OS, which is optimized for Windows 365 Cloud PC.
- Instant boot into Windows 365 Cloud PC
- Allow almost any endpoint to access Windows 11 via Windows 365
- Support for immersive, high-performance unified communications with audio and video offloading
- Relief from the cost and time-consuming burden of maintaining Windows on hundreds or many thousands of individual endpoints
SIMPLIFIED ONBOARDING
Any device pre-installed with IGEL OS can register over the air and download a Cloud PC profile, which enables instant boot into Cloud PC, for a seamless experience to Windows 365 but with all the security, management, and control benefits of IGEL OS.
- Employee connects to WiFi and connects to IGEL Cloud Gateway
- The profile is downloaded to, and auto-configures for Cloud PC
- The employee has instant access to Cloud PC
- 🎧 TEAMS - Unified Communications is critical to businesses, so optimizing TEAMS in Azure is key - IGEL can help
- 💲 Drive W365 Consumption by Repurposing CAPEX dollars towards AVD/W365 by converting existing devices and taking that Hardware refresh budget to invest in Azure.
- ⚡️⚡️Accelerate migrations to W365 by simplifying the experience for the user and IT.
- Microsoft is an IGEL Ready Partner - it just works.
- IGEL is an IP Cosell Partner of Microsoft
- Look for IGEL Cloud Gateway (126ebca2-11ce-41f1-aed3-e33c781c4735)
- IGEL on Azure Marketplace
- AVD is all about moving Windows from the user device and into the cloud. IGEL OS is hardware agnostic and thus makes it easy to convert any x86, 64-bit device, regardless of manufacturer or form factor, into a highly secure, standardized endpoint. Most if not all of your existing endpoint devices are already “AVD ready”!
- IGEL OS saves money to help ease the transition to AVD by minimizing capital expenditures (CAPEX). By extending the life of existing hardware, it postpones, in some cases for years, the cost and disruption of the dreaded “PC hardware refresh”.
- IGEL OS is simple! Easy to use, it features no-touch deployment and drag-and-drop profiling that can make any IT admin’s task of connecting user endpoints to AVD significantly less time-consuming.
- IGEL OS helps protect the enterprise where it is most vulnerable — at the network edge. It is an extremely “lightweight” OS with minimal attack surface for safe access to the Azure cloud.
- IGEL OS seamlessly supports built-in enterprise-level security with features like two-factor authentication, smart card readers and trusted execution.
- IGEL OS includes a complete “chain of trust” verification process from the processor (select IGEL/AMD hardware models) or UEFI all the way to the AVD services from the Azure cloud. It is thus extremely resistant to manipulation, as well as viruses and other malware.
- IGEL OS is flexible. Firmware licenses are portable and can be assigned to other devices. If an AVD user acquires or decides to change their endpoint device, that user’s IGEL OS license can be quickly and easily transferred to the new device.
- IGEL OS is modular by design, wherein unused features can be turned off, giving resources back to the system and keeping endpoints as “lean” as possible to minimize the attack surface of the device. This, along with the read-only file system, makes accessing AVD with IGEL OS even more tamper-resistant and hence safer!
- IGEL OS is designed to be highly customizable. For example, corporate branding or unique screensavers for corporate messaging can make endpoint devices look and perform exactly as desired per a customer’s requirements. So, organizations of almost any size can move their desktops to AVD and retain the familiar and consistent desktop “look and feel” their users prefer.
- IGEL OS has a lot of friends! A broad technology partner ecosystem of more than 200 leading partners ensures integration of the latest technologies: authentication, dictation, e-signature, unified communications, printing, USB management, and many more. Organizations can move to AVD knowing they don’t need to dramatically change their users’ work environment.
Videos
- IGEL CEO and Scott Manchester discuss the mutual partnership.
- IGEL OS & Azure
- Case Study