Designing Your Modern Desktop Environment: Part 3 in our Desktop Methodology Series

The goal of Alliance's Desktop Methodology is to help move your organization to a "modern desktop" that combines multiple user endpoint types, delivery of applications and security of your data. In previous articles, we introduced the Assessment Phase of this methodology. Once you've surveyed what you have, it's time to cast a vision of your future desktop environment.
 
Will that future be Virtual Desktops (VDI)? Will it be Remote Desktop Services (previously called Terminal Services)? Will it be "fat desktops"? Will it be disconnected laptops and tablets? These are the basic questions that we seek to help firms answer in the Design and Architecture Phase of the methodology. However, it goes much deeper. In making these choices, you must take a closer look at your users. It's time to identify user communities, or those groups of users that have similar application and operational needs. It's time to scope out how folks use printers and peripherals requirements to ensure that functionality in the new environment matches or exceeds your end users' expectations. This is time to determine what endpoints will be targeted, whether those are mobile devices, thin clients or traditional PCs. And, it's time to identify how individual applications will be delivered (remember, in our previous phase, we analyzed each application for suitability in new environments).
 
These high-level decisions form the Design portion of Alliance's Desktop Methodology. The next step is to start making the "hard decisions" about specific ways to address the design. In our next Enterprise Snapshots, we'll walk through this Architecture process.

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