Cpak has been a long time partner for the City of Fayetteville in their hardware and services support.  Cpak provides IBM maintenance, licensing, and most recently, partnered with the City to implement a VDI solution utilizing VMware and zero clients.   The VDI solution  leverages technology to perform seamless upgrades to their environment and to speed access to information in the field for all City services. The VMware View software also works on Smartphones which makes City employees "super connected".
 
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A growing number of embedded systems - devices with built-in firmware and non-PC form factors - are running Windows, including point-of-sale terminals, kiosks, and digital signage. But up to now they've required a server capable of running Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager 2007 (SCCM).

Hewlett-Packard announced that for the first time, it will offer thin client PCs - systems that run Windows Embedded Standard 7 already - that have Embedded Device Manager 2011 (EDM 2011) pre-installed. This way, out of the box, customers that run Windows Embedded 7 (based on the Windows 7 kernel) don't have to install a separate server PC (even if it's just a virtual or cloud-based one) to monitor and maintain devices such as cash registers.

 

Embedded devices such as HP's thin clients utilize a Microsoft feature called enhanced write filtering. It's a way of using local memory as a cache for storing the images of changes that software running on the client may try to make to the disk - for example, when a Web browser stores cookies. For a system whose real function is point-of-sale, you often don't want permanent disk changes, so write filtering lets the disk's original contents be instantly restored by simply rebooting and "forgetting" the changes.

That's nice, until you - the admin - want to make permanent changes to the operating system like security patches or service packs. You might have had to write a script that turned filtering off, applied the patch, then turned filtering on again. And someplace in that scenario, you worked in some time for praying it all worked right before re-engaging the filter.

One of the benefits of using EDM is that it knows how to programmatically disengage enhanced write filters prior to deploying updates. Another is being able to enroll multiple like devices (e.g., all the front registers) as a single collection, and roll out changes to the entire collection on a manageable itinerary.

 

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