Schools: Re-open your student labs easily, virtually! (part 2: technical setup)

In part one of this pair of postings, we covered the use case for extending your on-campus computer labs to your students (and potentially staff).This is a a strategy I have encouraged institutions to adapt long prior to the COVID-19 related closures of campuses (and thus closing access to computing labs), due to the multitude …
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Your time managing antivirus would be better spent getting virtualized

As a recovering beat up sysadmin, one of my least desired tasks was management of enterprise Anti-Virus. I’ve had experiences with multiple vendors, but there was always one consistent truth … I could never get 100% endpoint compliance or stability.   My AV clients across the globe would repeatedly suffer one or multiple fates. They’d …
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