UPDATED Zoom Pre-requisites & System Requirementsįollow my original guidance at –. Un-Optimised #HDX Offloading of #Zoommeeting in a #Citrix #virtualdesktop /7mOXiZGoHI- Lyndon-Jon Martin 👨🏻‍💻 May 7, 2020 If an employee access’s his/her Citrix virtual desktop from an endpoint e.g BYO that doesn’t have the “ Zoom Media Plugin” installed like it was on there e.g CORP device then the once “ Optimised” HDX offloaded A/V traffic for there Zoom Meeting is effectively now “ Un-Optimised” and the A/V processing that was shifted onto the employee’s endpoint will now be processed within the Citrix virtual desktop in the resource location (data centre) causing a degraded experience, macro uplift in computing and networking resources to process the A/V for the Zoom meeting and the A/V traffic sent and received from the employees endpoint which is then sent out via the Zoom client within the Citrix virtual Optimised vs. The below image represents both an (un)optimised Zoom meeting running within a Citrix virtual desktop. Un-Optimised Zoom Meetings in Citrix VDI (DaaS)

In my first blog post I explored how frictionless it was to setup and deploy Zoom in a Citrix Virtual Desktop, this post builds upon my initial post looking at a wider device spectrum, fallback scenarios and further testing using iGel thin clients.

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