Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Citrix Systems, Inc.

Prasanna Chromepet Padmanabhan

Jun Shi

Somesh Goel

Jinhua Fei

Georgy Momchilov

Scott Manchester

Timothy A Laverty

Abraham Mir

Devis Lucato

Tun-Jan Chuang

Zachary William Dixon

Koichi Hirao

Randall Richards Cook

John C Whytock

Parthasarathy Sundararajan

Sandeep Patnaik

Roland Radtke

Yan Zhang

Na Li

Yizhong Wu

Christian Cruz Montoya

Alexander Ryan Fromm

Gary Liao

Matthew Shadbolt

Christiaan Brinkhoff

Orin D Lincoln

Xuling Luo

Honglu Chen

Timothy Alan Laverty

A computer implemented method includes granting a subscriber client access to a cloud service-based resource group within a subscriber controlled computing environment. The subscriber controlled computing environment has a virtual network. A direct network connection is established via the virtual network to a domain controller in the subscriber controlled computing environment. The virtual network is extended to a subscriber client virtual machine in a producer cloud service. The subscriber client virtual machine is then joined with the virtual network. Access to the subscriber client virtual machine is provided via the subscriber controlled computing environment and virtual network.

Virtual machine provisioning and directory service management

A computer implemented method includes granting a tenant administrator client machine access to a cloud hosted tenant service joined to a directory service. A bulk token for the tenant is obtained in response to a request received from the tenant administrator client machine. An identifier of an authorized tenant client to the cloud hosted tenant service is received and results in the provisioning of a tenant client virtual machine in a cloud service for the authorized tenant client in accordance with a specified provisioning package associated with the bulk token. The tenant client virtual machine is then joined to the directory service. On receipt of an authorized client token at the cloud hosted tenant service from a tenant client machine, the tenant client machine is provided a connection to the tenant client virtual machine.

Methods and systems for transferring an application between a server environment and a local device are provided. Some examples include launching the application in the server environment. The application is associated with a URL. Some examples further include determining that the application should be executed on the local device, generating a transfer control option corresponding to switching the application from the server environment to the local device, receiving a selection of the transfer control option, and in response to receiving the selection, transmitting the URL from the server environment to the local device to enable execution of the application on the local device.

Enhanced transferring of an application between a server environment and a local device

Methods and devices for an automated Internet of Things (IoT) certification service to verify plug and play capabilities of one or more IoT devices for use with a cloud service provider may include receiving a device identification of an IoT device to certify with the cloud service provider. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection of one or more certification tests to perform to plug and play capabilities of the IoT device. The methods and devices may include performing the one or more certification tests. The methods and devices may include generating a device certification for the plug and play capabilities of the IoT device in response to the one or more certification tests passing.

Internet of things (IoT) device and solution certification as a service

A desktop switcher provides equally convenient user interface navigational access to remote virtual desktops as to local virtual desktops for reliable and convenient human-computer interaction. Underlying mechanisms transparently confirm remote computer availability and compatibility, transfer thumbnails between computers, and support remoting sessions. Virtual desktops may share a clipboard, a geographic location setting, and application thumbnails, despite being based on computers that are remote from one another, e.g., when only one of a session's computers resides in a cloud. Virtual desktop context menus may be shown and utilized remotely. A visual separator in the desktop switcher may distinguish local virtual desktops from remote virtual desktops.

Virtual desktop switching and communications

Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are directed to emulating a semi-transparent effect with respect to a display element rendered via a GUI. The semi-transparent effect may be generated based on a sampling of pixel values of another display element that is non-overlapping with the display element. For instance, pixel values of a portion of the other display element that is adjacent to an edge of the display element may be determined. Using the determined pixel values, a visualization scheme is generated that emulates a visual effect (e.g., a blur effect). The determined visualization scheme is then applied to the display element. This causes the display element to appear semi-transparent such that the colors of the other display element appear to be behind the display element, thereby creating an effect that the display element is overlaid on top of the other display element.

Emulating a transparency effect for a display element

Internet of things (IOT) device and solution certification as a service

A technique for managing virtualized user sessions in an electronic system generates schedules of expected session usage adaptively, based on actual numbers of user sessions allocated while operating the electronic system, and provides capacity for running user sessions from powered-on servers ready to accept new user sessions. The electronic system allocates user sessions in response to requests and tracks numbers of allocated user sessions. As schedules of expected session usage are adjusted based on actual session usage, schedules tend to become more accurate over time and can adapt to changes in usage patterns.

Efficient management of virtualized session resources

The present disclosure features methods and systems for updating a taskbar, generated and displayed by a local computer, with a user interface element representative of a remote application executing on a remote computer and application output generated by the remote application. These methods and system include a local client receiving application output generated by a remote application and remote window configuration information, generating an application output window comprising local taskbar grouping configuration information, and updating a taskbar responsive to the local taskbar grouping configuration information.

Methods and systems for generating a combined display of taskbar button group entries generated on a local machine and on a remote machine

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