Switch on Windows Virtual Desktop Seamlessly
Enable your IT teams, employees and contractors to work effectively and securely from any location, on any device
Circumventing the Challenges of COVID-19
During the COVID-19 crisis, organisations are challenged to find secure remote working solutions for their employees and contractors quickly. With that in mind, Version 1 is helping customers to get started with Windows Virtual Desktop to ensure their IT Teams and employees can work effectively from any location, on any device.
Quickly Deploy Virtual Desktops and Apps to Enable Secure Remote Work
Windows Virtual Desktop is a comprehensive desktop and app virtualisation service running in the cloud. It’s the only virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) that delivers simplified management, multi-session Windows 10, optimisations for Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, and support for Remote Desktop Services (RDS) environments. With Windows Virtual Desktop, you can deploy and scale your Windows desktops and apps on Azure in minutes and get built-in security and compliance features.
Key Features of Windows Virtual Desktop
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Access from any geographic location
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Access from any browser-enabled device
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Secure access to applications and a full Windows Desktop experience
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Deploy customised policies and software with Microsoft Intune
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Delivers the only multi-session Windows 10 experience
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Supports Windows 7 (free extended security updates to Jan 2023)
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Supports Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019
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Optimised for Office 365 ProPlus
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Supports OneDrive
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Centralised management from a single interface in Azure
Smooth Implementation with Version 1
Version 1's Seamless WVD Implementation is typically a short-term, 2-week high-value engagement involving a core build, Office 365 and one custom app in a phased approach.
Discover
Understand pre-launch considerations for your organisation.
Enable
Switch on quickly and adhere to best-practice governance and security.
Adopt
Learn and upskill to accelerate user adoption.
Enhance
Plan to meet your medium to long term needs.
Seamless Windows Virtual Desktop Implementation in Four Steps
Discover
Version 1 Cloud experts will help you to define scope, understand business context and discover your pre-launch considerations in areas such as licencing, Azure AD, design and user adoption to advise on the best options available to you.
Enable
Version 1 will help provision and configure a Windows Virtual Desktop tenancy for you, or if you have one already, provide our technical services team with access to configure the tenancy. We will deploy a host pool, prepare a test VM image and prepare a user profile container. Our team will then publish one application and your desktop pool.
Adopt
Learning is critical to user adoption. We can help upskill your IT team through support for complex queries and/or augment your IT team to help serve and educate your users. We can provide remote training sessions as well as rich user training materials combined with access to a dedicated team to support your users, resolve ad-hoc queries and accelerate adoption.
Enhance
Version 1 will handover to you and can help you to plan for your medium to long term needs:
Adoption and Change Management:
Version 1 can continue to support adoption and change management services to continue to bring value by bringing business use cases to life and ensuring that users adopt new services as part of their natural rhythm of work.
Custom Solutions:
Microsoft Teams, Office 365 and PowerAutomate provide a rich platform for building innovative solutions and applications which cater to your evolving business needs.
We also offer optional extended support and custom conditional policies.
Business Benefits of Windows Virtual Desktop Implementation
Facilitates Workforce Flexibility
Increases Protection and Security
Drives Efficiency
Lower Running Costs (OpEx)
Highly Scalable
Cost Effective
Why Choose Version 1 as your WVD Implementation Partner?
Operating in the arena of Microsoft services since 2006, Version 1 is one of the most accredited Microsoft partners across the UK and Ireland. With broad and deep expertise across the Microsoft stack, Version 1 can look beyond specific requirements to underlying customer issues and identify integrated solutions that leverage the entire technology stack.