Abstract: Methods and systems for faster and more efficient smart card logon and for giving a client device full domain access in a remote computing environment are described herein. Fast smart card logon may be used to reduce latency and improve security. For example, the system may reduce the number of operations (e.g., interactions) between a server device used for authentication and the client device. These operations may include fetching a user certificate from the smart card or signing data. Fast smart card logon may also improve security by optionally avoiding PIN (or other credential) transmission over networks, and to enable single sign on from an authentication event (e.g., Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) authentication) using a smart card to the domain logon without resorting to PIN caching.

Abstract: Described are methods and systems for dynamically determining to execute a virtual machine on one of a local computing machine and a remote computing machine. A system can include a local computing machine, a remote computing machine and an execution manager that executes on a processor. The execution manager can obtain the characteristics of a local computing machine, and of a network between the local computing machine and the remote computing machine. The execution manager can then apply a policy to the local computing machine characteristics and the network characteristics to determine whether to execute a virtual machine on the local computing machine or the remote computing machine. Responsive to applying this policy, the execution manager can forward an execution instruction to one of either a hypervisor executing on the local computing machine and the remote computing machine, to execute the virtual machine.