A reminder: Glassware Does NOT Work: From 43de Glassware 2.0 Azure Testing Update
Bad news.. it actually doesn't work as fully claimed. In fact it seems to be just a demo. (Yet, we were told for almost year that a full, enterprise version of Glassware would be available on Azure, and that the venue would flow when Microsoft's global sales force started selling it)
Here are my findings:
1) You cannot join a domain with glassware. In fact, you can't do much of anything with the containers. RDP into host VM does not work,(interesting since Glassware uses Microsoft RDP to connect to user devices); remote Powershell is not setup, workarounds I have tried by uploading my own software to configure the host OS have been futile (though not exhaustive yet). Their claims that it "supports active directory integration" are surface level. They support IMPORTING active directory users into their system, but it is not INTEGRATED with AD. Ie. NTLM/Kerberos auth is not going to happen. Which makes technical sense considering that users don't log into containers using their AD credentials.
2) The license key granted has the key "AZURE-DEMO" and I have 10,000 user licenses (that I have not paid any sort of premium for). (he forgets to mention that a prerequisite for Glassware on Azure is that you also have to pay for Microsoft Windows Server, at lest according to the Azure web site)
3) Connect via HTML5 is not available. Hmm, may explain the Chromebook in Education project failure
4) Indeed 16-bit applications don't work. Well, so much for "any app, any device" and "end end of life" and "run ATM based WinXP apps in the cloud". I wonder if the newsletter author could provide us an update, or even some insight how he came to the conclusion Glassware could do all of this, especially since it doesn't. :)
This also might explain why they don't want anyone reviewing what they've made available. Perhaps this is the reason that the promised sand boxes that were "available in three locations" never materialized and ZDNet never got to test it. Didn't Peter Bookman and Simon Bramfitt promise Ken Hess of ZDNet a demo system on at least three different occasions?
