IGEL Weekly

This week we discuss the success of the IGEL Community and the value it has brought to the EUC community. We also cover the future and what the community has planned to bring more value to the current and future members.

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

One of my favorite parts about the IGEL Community and any community is people helping people. Someone asks a question, maybe not even relating to IGEL itself but an associated technology. Many fine folks jump in to give their suggestions. Recently I saw just this in the IGEL Community, and the solution is so fantastic and helpful; I wanted to share it with all of you! 

Joseph Masone, asked the question: 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner

IGEL, a maker of well-engineered thin client hardware devices for two decades, is exiting that business as part of an all-out drive to make its popular Linux secure edge operating system the standard for Windows workspace computing across any device or cloud.

The decision to stop production of hardware thin clients for the No. 3 provider of thin clients in North America and Europe with an installed base of three million devices - opens the door for lGEL to provide its next gen edge OS exclusively through heavyweight hardware partners LG, Lenovo and HP.

For IGEL CEO Jed Ayres – who has spearheaded the company’s transformation into a secure Linux workspace operating system powerhouse- getting out of the hardware business is the culmination of a “dream come true” that he envisioned when he joined the company as CEO of North America six years ago.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat 
Guest: Jed Ayres

Watch this IGEL Tech-Tips Tuesday video to learn how to configure the prioritization of audio devices on IGEL OS. 

Unified Communications is widely used in today’s world. The requirement to configure audio devices is a must. In the following video, you will learn how to prioritize audio devices found on IGEL OS devices.

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 02:00 Check device recognition
• 03:05 Check devices in Sound Manager
• 04:32 Set the Prio locally
• 05:30 Create a profile for it
• 08:08 Use Classes instead of devices
• 09:46 Explain how the Automatic Prio works

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat

IGEL is proud to be hosting a new webinar series with IGEL Ready analytics partners 7SIGNAL, Liquidware and ControlUp. During this series, which kicks off on Tuesday, October 18, attendees will have the opportunity to learn how the joint solutions offered by IGEL and these three IGEL Ready partners can help optimize the employee experience in today’s work-from-anywhere world.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Patrick Toner

In this video, Sebastian Perusat will walk you through the tasks needed to update the IGEL OS via the IGEL UMS, including how to check for and download updates, manually update, configurations required, and firmware update best practices. 

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 01:50 Check the installed firmware version
• 01:58 Check for newer / older Updates
• 02:30 Downloading via UMS
• 03:10 Checking connectivity
• 03:47 Manual Download via WEB
• 05:21 Uploading manually
• 06:27 Corecting Hostname
• 07:00 Assigning the update
• 07:20 Update immediately
• 08:00 Best practices light

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat
Co-Host: Chris Feeneey

Have you ever been in a situation where you have a user with brand new endpoints out in the field, at home, or elsewhere, and you need to guide them to be able to access your Citrix published Desktops and/or Apps environment? Has there at any time been any problems when onboarding users, making them install the right components and configure their machines in the correct way?

IGEL has been working hard to make onboarding IGEL OS users in the field very easy. With the release of the IGEL Cloud Gateway (ICG), this has already been a reality for many years. Let me explain to you what is needed to make a very smooth onboarding of remote users and actually get them productive within minutes from the first power on of their IGEL OS endpoint.

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Patrick Toner
Co-Host: Chris Feeney

LG participation in the IGEL “Why Compromise” campaign. As part of this global promotion, IGEL is providing 14-inch LG gram laptops, pre-loaded with IGEL OS and integrated with ControlUp’s Digital Employee Experience Management platform, to qualified participants. To trial an IGEL powered LG laptop,

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Tonner
Co-host: Chris Feeney

This week the team takes a break from discussing IGEL blogs and covers the IGEL CLI concepts and some key commands that every IGEL administrator should know. 

Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Patrick Toner
Co-host: Chris Feeney
Co-host: Sebastien Perusat 

We then look at what is sustainability and why it has become so important to companies. In fact, most companies annual reports now include sustainability as a strategic business objective.

We look at the pandemic and the impact it is had on the environment and how remote working is a key driver in reducing emissions.

We also investigate how EUC has a major impact on emissions and is responsible for 1% of Global emissions which is on a par with the airline industry which I thought was a shocking statistic.