1. Bring Your Own Laptop Student Access to College Software from Home
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2. Presentation Overview:
Vision
Goals
Objectives
Project Results

3. Our Vision
To be recognized as one of Canada's finest comprehensive colleges providing world-class education and training through commitment to excellence and innovation.

4. Achieve Operational Excellence Enhance the Student Experience
Our Goals
Manage our Enrolments
Achieve Operational Excellence
Enhance the Student Experience
Manage our Enrolments
Technical advances may attract more students
Reduction of barriers may retain more students
Achieve Operational Excellence
Reduce college capital and operating costs
Enhance the Student Experience
Easy access to the software they need (anytime, anywhere, anyhow)
Encourage students to bring their laptops to campus
Engage the students with relevant technologies

5. Student Virtual Desktop
Project Objectives:
Enhance student access to resources
Reduce college owned computer labs
Provide flexible software management
Distribute College applications to Student’s personal laptops
Relate these to the College Goals.

6. Researched several Virtual concepts Mixed application environment
Project Details:
Researched several Virtual concepts
Mixed application environment
Two technologies selected:
VMware’s VDI
Symantec’s Appstream
VDI would not do everything we need, Appstream is very similar to imaging technology we currently have in place
We determined very quickly that both technologies would be needed to complete this project.

7. Virtual Desktop:
North Carolina State University originally developed a connection broker to allow students to “Remote Desktop” into the closed computer labs to access all the software and resources in the lab.

8. Application Streaming:
Concept:
Breaks up applications into chunks
The streamed applications move very efficiently across network
Security settings allow granular control of streamed applications.
I think everyone will be more familiar with VDI so I will discuss more what we have found with appstream.
When an application is streamed only parts are sent to the target computer the application begins to cache on the local system.
As more and more features are used in an application more chunks are streamed to the computer as needed. This process is not noticed by the end user.

9. Application Streaming:
User Benefits:
Authentication through web portal
On-demand application delivery
Self-service software distribution
Control of what is on their laptops
No modification to Windows registry
Could use the analogy of Pay-per-View or Video-on-Demand movies.
Some applications a student may not want to use or may want to use something different they have the choice.
Applications do not install, so no modifications to registry are made. There a fewer chances of having compatibility issues.

10. Application Streaming:
IT Benefits:
Simplified application provisioning
Simplified software updates
Maximize use of software licenses
Reduce administration, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance costs
Any classroom can be a computer lab
Patch management and Image changes plague IT departments in getting these out in a timely manner.

11. Other Uses for these Techologies:
Customized ad hoc industry training
Testing beta software before install
Access to secured resources
Stream a virtual desktop to a computer
In multi use lab environments applications can be streamed instead of images being downloaded

12. Challenges:
Printing
Access to Domain Storage Resources
Ensuring our network is protected
Conflicts if application is currently installed

13. Demonstration Instructions
Connect to network (wireless?)
Vdicon.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca
Logon: vdiguest
Password: vdiguest
Select XP
click on “connect”
We are still sorting out the security requirements for Appstream so we will connect through a VDI console to stream some applications

14. Open IE and go to the following http://astream.lethbridgecollege.ab.ca
Instructions for Demo
Open IE and go to the following
Login: vdiguest
Password: vdiguest
Window will open with available applications
We are still sorting out the security requirements for Appstream so we will connect through a VDI console to stream some applications

15. Researched Institutions
North Carolina State University
East Carolina University (with NCSU)
UC Santa Cruz

16. Bring Your Own Laptop Student Access to College Software from Home
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