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IGEL and Citrix have enjoyed a strong technical and marketing alliance within end-user computing for decades. The latest evidence of this is IGEL integrating the Citrix Gateway plugin into the IGEL OS for direct access to Citrix Endpoint Analysis.

This integration in IGEL OS is unique and supports our joint customers with easy, direct access so they can run device checks centrally from the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) management console without requiring any further plugin permission or installation.

I was going to write a long detailed episode description for this episode.  But then I remembered the first rule of Fight Club.

If you know you know.

Thanks to our guests on this weeks show
XenTegra Global CTO: Moin Khan
XenTegra India: Indrajeet Ghorpade

In this episode, Seb and I will take the top handful of questions that we see in the community and attempt to answer them! We cover OS 5, OS 10, OS 11, and of course Cosmos.

If you are curious about the upgrade process from IGEL OS 11 to IGEL OS 12/Cosmos, then this episode is for you!

If you are curious about what happens to your endpoint when subscriptions lapse, then this episode is for you!

If you are curious about what was discussed in our hot new segment, 'Seb teaches Barry German', then this episode is for you!

If you are curious about what other questions are discussed, then this episode is for you.

I hope you see a theme here.

This episode is for you.

Shownotes:  My Licenses Have Expired - What Can I Do? (igel.com)

First Disrupt in Nashville, then COSMOS goes GA.  As a result is no shortage of topics for us to discuss on this week's podcast.  With so much IGEL news out there, somehow, we still managed to go down a rabbit hole and introduced a whole new segment.

Seb teaches Barry German.

When we are not learning German, we recap IGEL Disrupt, and talk about all things COSMOS.

Host: Barry Browne
Co-Host: Sebastien Persuat

Join us live from IGEL Disrupt in Nashville, as we talk all things EUC, and the disruptive nature of IGEL OS.

In this episode, we were lucky to get some face time with IGEL CEO Jed Ayres, and IGEL SVP Irfan Khursid.  Jed and Irfan did share some insights in what we should expect coming out of Disrupt 2023, so be sure to listen to the end.  Exciting times ahead for IGEL customers, IGEL partners, and the entire EUC ecosystem. 


Host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Sebastien Persuat
Guest : Moin Kahn
Guest: Jed Ayres
Guest: David Prows
Guest Irfan Jhurshid

p.s.  The audio quality is not the best, so apologies in advance.

Join Barry and Sebastien as they discuss what to expect at the upcoming IGEL Disrupt conference kicking off next week in Nashville.  Some interesting teasers in what we should expect from the podcast, the event, and IGEL OS 12: COSMOS.

Host: Barry Browne
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat

IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, today announced IGEL COSMOS. Unveiled at DISRUPT23 – The Ultimate Global EUC event in Munich, COSMOS is a unified, agile platform to securely manage and automate the delivery of digital workspaces, from any cloud. Offering a modular architecture, granular endpoint control and end-user freedom, COSMOS is designed to enable organizations to garner the full power of current-day and future clouds with extensive control, while powering great user experiences for today’s hybrid work.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Remote work is alive and well and thriving in the U.S. and abroad. An estimated 36.2 million American employees will be working remotely by 2025. Right now, about a quarter of U.S. employees are working remotely and 16% of U.S. companies are all-remote, according to Zippia. It’s indicative of what is becoming the standard workforce environment of the future: a hybrid work environment that includes a fluid mix of remote, mobile, and on-site workspaces with a steadily increasing number of applications being delivered from the cloud. IT teams must contend with this assortment of workspaces and remote worker needs at the endpoint, and it is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. They need to achieve a fine balance fulfilling all remote worker requests and maintaining a level of security and access control that supports the overall safety of the network.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne

The Digital Workspace  Ecosystem Alliance (DWEA), a non-profit consortium of technology leaders dedicated to providing vendor-neutral tools and resources to help organizations develop their digital workspace strategies, has released the results of its first annual “State of the Digital Workspace 2022” survey, which looks at adoption, benefits, challenges and opportunities that remote, hybrid and on-premises work environments currently face.

During September 2022, more than 2,500 organizations around the world took part in the survey, which was one of the largest digital workspace-focused surveys to date and comes at a pivotal moment when the upheaval we’ve experienced due to the global pandemic. The lessons learned over the last two years are still fresh in our minds and based on the survey, a clearer picture of the path forward is emerging with many organizations eager to solidify the digital workspace strategies that will see them into the future.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Barry Browne
Co-host: Chris Feeney
C0-host: Patrick Toner

Written by Edwin ten Haaf, IGEL Community Member

More and more of our IGEL customers want to facilitate work from anywhere.

In the office they were familiar with using #IGELOS driven devices.  By providing end users with notebooks running IGEL OS or UD Pocket(IGEL  on a stick) user can safely and easily connect to their virtual  workplace.

The management backend (UMS) is managing these devices in the  local network.  connect to ICG and the  management backend connects to ICG and the devices can be managed as if  they were local.   

If you're ICG is installed and configured well you can now manage  you're devices outside the office. Deploy and update profiles, support  users with shadow functionality. One important part that has to be  configured separately is the distribution of IGEL OS firmware and Custom  Partitions (Additional Software running on the IGEL OS like MS Teams and  Zoom)

For this you need to point you're devices to a remote https/sftp  location. Please read here how


Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat