As organizations embrace Citrix technologies as part of their remote work initiatives, they aren’t just providing users with access to all the corporate resources they need. They’re also ensuring that their IT teams implement the necessary security and controls to support these new remote workers.
One solution that is playing a large part in enterprise remote work initiatives is Microsoft Teams. As more employees move away from working in traditional office settings — some permanently — we’re seeing more organizations embrace unified communication tools like Microsoft Teams. But I still get asked by new and existing Citrix customers, “Is it possible to deploy Microsoft Teams in a virtual environment, and will it deliver be a great experience for my users?”
Optimizing Microsoft Teams for the Ever-Growing Remote Workforce
While many leverage Microsoft Teams for their remote workforces, the need to patch and manage individual endpoints that have Microsoft Teams installed has been a challenge for admins at large enterprises.
Centralized management through virtualization addresses those challenges. Our HDX team worked in partnership with Microsoft to be the first to market to offer Microsoft Teams optimized for virtual environments. The optimization itself is a continuation of our joint initiative to deliver Skype for Business and release the Citrix HDX Realtime Optimization Pack for Skype for Business.
With the HDX optimization for Microsoft Teams, customers get a fully native, fully featured Microsoft Teams experience in Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops. With a single point of authentication, this improves reliability and ease of use. The Citrix Workspace app has a built-in multi-platform HDX Media Engine that ensures optimized device and media handling, with audio, video, and screen sharing offloaded to users’ devices. Not only does Citrix technology help optimize the Microsoft Teams’ native client, but it also optimizes the web version. If you haven’t already seen optimization for Microsoft Teams in action, check out this short video:
Webinar: Optimizing Microsoft Teams with Citrix
When we released optimization for Microsoft Teams last year, businesses began implementing it in their environments to support users, helping them work effectively anywhere and maintain productivity. While there are a number of great resources out there to help implement Microsoft Teams for your virtual environments, we know there are some burning questions out there, so later this month, we’ll hold a unique webinar where we go through those questions. Don’t miss the Ask Me Anything: Optimizing Microsoft Teams with Citrix webinar on Tuesday, June 30. You can register for it here.
This webinar will feature our HDX team going through some frequently asked questions submitted by YOU, our customers. If there’s something you’d like us to address, you can submit your questions here.
Hope to see you all there!
