VIRTUALIZING DEVICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES ON A MULTI-SESSION PLATFORM

摘要

Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses may provide virtualization of device management services (e.g., device drivers) dedicated managing a particular device and designed under for or under the assumption the particular device and the device management service will be utilized in a single session/user environment, so that virtual instances of the device management services may be used in a multi-session environment. Further, a redirection and/or virtualization layer may be created for each session in the multi-session environment to perform global database redirection, object name translation, and file system translation to ensure session boundaries are maintained and global/shared resources are not inappropriately altered by a session. As an example, the redirection/virtualization layer may redirect communications associated with a session and for a global resource to access a virtual instance of the resource specific to the session.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a first computing device configured to provide a virtual environment comprising a plurality of sessions where each session is specific to a different user and comprises at least one virtual instance of an application executed by the first computing device; and a second computing device communicatively coupled to the first computing via a wide area network, the second computing device being associated with a session, of the plurality of sessions, and configured to interact with a virtual instance of the application specific to the session, wherein the second computing device is communicatively coupled to a service managed computing device configured to be managed by a device management service, wherein the session comprises a virtual instance of the device management service for use with the session and a redirection layer for use with the session, and wherein the redirection layer is configured to intercept a communication between the virtual instance of the application specific to the session and the virtual instance of the device management service for use with the session.