{"id":41204,"date":"2019-08-15T14:17:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ims\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:27:45","slug":"mydesktop-is-now-cudesktop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2019\/mydesktop-is-now-cudesktop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"myDesktop is now cuDesktop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        myDesktop is now cuDesktop\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>On August 15, ITS upgraded Carleton\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carleton.ca\/cudesktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)<\/a>. As part of this upgrade, the name has changed from myDesktop to cuDesktop. Users will also notice slight enhancements to the interface, performance improvements, and an updated image to Windows 10 with the latest software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carleton\u2019s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides an alternative to physical computer labs and is used for courses which require students have access to course-specific software during course lectures. It allows students access to applications without needing them to be installed on their own laptop or tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cudesktop.carleton.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download the VDI here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 15, ITS upgraded Carleton\u2019s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). As part of this upgrade, the name has changed from myDesktop to cuDesktop. Users will also notice slight enhancements to the interface, performance improvements, and an updated image to Windows 10 with the latest software. Carleton\u2019s Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) provides an alternative to physical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}