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IGEL helps companies to quickly recover, whenever productive work comes to a halt due to an IT outage.

IGEL offers a secure read-only lightweight Linux Operating System allowing you to convert existing PC’s to IGEL OS or boot from USB (thus not affecting the existing Operating System or data) whilst in a Disaster Recovery situation, allowing users to connect to services such as VDI, DaaS and\or WEB and SaaS applications.

In a DR scenario IGEL OS will work without the need for management infrastructure to be setup and configured, simply boot to IGEL OS, download evaluation licenses for 90 days; install any client applications you require to connect to your VDI, DaaS and\or WEB and SaaS applications and get your users back up and running FAST.

This may also have the advantage of granting the IT team breathing space whilst they continue to troubleshoot any ongoing outages.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Chris Feeney

Windows 10 goes end of life on the 14th of October 2025. By that date, Microsoft will stop providing free software updates from Windows update, no technical assistance will be offered and lastly, there will not be any more security fixes. Security fixes are a crucial part, and if you are on a system where a new vulnerability is exposed, and no more security fixes are going to be provided, you are in big trouble. Looking at last year’s increase of cyberattacks with ransomware, and how it affects companies, that is not an option!
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-host: Bill Sutton
Co-host: Chris Feeney

IGEL is proud to be hosting a new webinar series with IGEL Ready analytics partners 7SIGNAL, Liquidware and ControlUp. During this series, which kicks off on Tuesday, October 18, attendees will have the opportunity to learn how the joint solutions offered by IGEL and these three IGEL Ready partners can help optimize the employee experience in today’s work-from-anywhere world.
Host: Andy Whiteside
Co-Host: Patrick Toner

In this video, Sebastian Perusat will walk you through the tasks needed to update the IGEL OS via the IGEL UMS, including how to check for and download updates, manually update, configurations required, and firmware update best practices.

Presented by Sebastian Perusat, IGEL Community FELLOW.

In this video, Sebastien will teach you how to:

• 01:50 Check the installed firmware version
• 01:58 Check for newer / older Updates
• 02:30 Downloading via UMS
• 03:10 Checking connectivity
• 03:47 Manual Download via WEB
• 05:21 Uploading manually
• 06:27 Corecting Hostname
• 07:00 Assigning the update
• 07:20 Update immediately
• 08:00 Best practices light

Host: Patrick Toner
Co-Host: Sebastien Perusat
Co-Host: Chris Feeneey

In this episode, Rene talk about the power of the IGEL community, and what makes it so sticky!
Additionally we dive into some product discussions. Did you know that IGEL OS 11 is going end of life in December 2025.
Finally, we close things out with a discussion of the IGEL Disrupt conference, and it's rebranding to IGEL Now and Next
Host: Barry Browne
Co Host: Rene Recker