Citrix XenApp, TS, VDI high res and large screens, a pain? Virtual Display Manager from Teknica might be the cure.

Well i think we have all been working with users with large monitors, several monitors and it has always been a huge problem to administrate. Some products dont support it, and one thing is for sure, the monitors are not getting smaller or fewer any time soon..

Wouldnt it be cool if you could use your 1920×1080 resolution 24" monitor to do more tasks simultaneously? A fullscreen rdp connection on one side, a maximized Outlook on the otder side?

Anyway.. Alex Danilichev at Teknica developed a great tool for display management called Virtual Display Manager(VDM).

VDM allows you to slice and control your monitor or monitors in any way you like. To list some of the features:

• Works with any number of physical monitors and is configurable per physical monitor.

• Can split each physical monitor into up to 16 individual Virtual Displays.

• Virtual Displays can be evenly sized or individually scaled to fit user’s requirements, i.e. evenly spaced layouts and asymmetrical configurations are supported. This is important when monitors of different sizes and aspect ratios are involved.

• Supports local logins and remote connections – Microsoft RDP and Citrix ICA sessions, VNC and Radmin, are just a few examples.

• Allows for switching between local and remote logins without loss in system window configuration and placement, which is independent from the monitor count or size.

• Provides for icon placement control when changing to different monitor geometry or configuration.

To see how the product actually works have a look at this video, this video also shows how the tool supports more than one resolution, maybe docked and undocked scenario?:

http://www.ishadow.com/dload/Paul/09.28.08/DynamicVDM/

For more information on the product please visit the product homepage: http://www.ishadow.com/Downloads/VirtualDisplayManager/tabid/115/Default.aspx

Just to clearify, this tool works both with any kind of desktop, so it also does a great deal to help with the management of multiple monitors in citrix environments. Teknica offers a trial so do check it out.

/Rene Vester