![]() ![]() And in that remote desktop session, I remote into the Dell laptop sitting in a docking station two feet away. It does support split-screen, and even dynamically resizes the remote desktop to fit. This RDP and VNC app really saved my bacon. It didn’t do that when I ran it in VMware Workstation on Windows.īut I still want the simplicity and portability of the iPad Pro. But if I host that VM on our ESX server, as soon as I connect the VPN, it drops the RDP connection. I also need to run a VM in order to use the VPN a client requires to connect to their network. This is made worse by the fact that Zendesk’s iPad app hasn’t been updated for iOS 9 and not only doesn’t support split-screen, but also shows everything at iPad Air size, including the giant Fisher Price “My First Keyboard.” Zendesk, our helpdesk app, refuses to render correctly on the big 13″ iPad Pro screen, blowing everything up to unusable bigness even if you explicitly ask for the desktop version of the page. There are also several apps that don’t work very well with the iOS version of Safari. I got it working for about a week, and then for reasons no one can explain it stopped providing audio from the caller over any Bluetooth headset I tried. It doesn’t support split-screen multitasking, and its reliability in taking calls when in the background is suspect. S4B has come a long way from Lync, but the iPad app is still problematic at best. ![]() My biggest problem was Skype for Business. Recently, I pushed that even further, and found out there are limits to what you can do with just the device itself. I’ve talked before about using an iPad Pro as my only computer in my job as a Windows systems administrator and helpdesk. While the iPad Pro is a great client for Microsoft services, not everything works as well as it should.
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