Teradici released a new  PCoIP zero client and host card firmware and the PCoIP Management Console. The following releases are now available for download on the Teradici support site (techsupport.teradici.com):

• Firmware 3.5.0 for PCoIP Zero Clients and PCoIP Host Cards.
• PCoIP Management Console 1.7.0

Firmware 3.5.0 update includes key feature enhancements including:

• USB2.0 with VMware View sessions
• Imprivata OneSign® Virtual Desktop Access via proximity cards with VMware View
• IEEE 802.1x network security
• IPv6 support. 

With this release, Teradici continues to innovate PCoIP zero client technology and accelerate the adoption

The new VMware View Client for iPad is out and it offers some great new features including an innovative new presentation mode supporting Apple AirPlay. More on this shortly…

VMware View makes it easy to extend to your users the opportunity to work where you want and on the device they choose. Today, we are excited to make this even easier with the release three new or updated mobile clients:

• VMware View Client for iPad 1.2 (Photo below showing new presentation mode!*)

• VMware View Client for Android Tablets

• VMware View Client for Cius

Let’s talk about the new clients…

VMware View Client for iPad 1.2
Building on the earlier View Client for iPad we released in March, VMware View Client for iPad 1.2 makes it easier, faster and better than ever to connect to your View desktop.

Optimized for VMware View 5
With support for VMware View 5, you can get better performance with reduced bandwidth options as well as more resilient connections to your desktop than previous versions.

Move Back and Forth between Windows Desktop and iOS Apps
Now with support for background multitasking, you can jump from your Windows desktop to another iPad app and then right back into the Windows desktop to where you left off!

Simpler to Connect with Embedded RSA Soft Token
If you need to use an RSA key to authenticate to connect to your View Desktop, just activate the RSA soft token built into the View Client for iPad and you just need to enter your RSA PIN when you connect to your View desktop.

Support for iOS 5 and Apple AirPlay
That right… VMware View Client for iPad 1.2 works well with iOS 5 and takes advantage of Apple AirPlay and an available AppleTV to use your big screen TV as a display for your View desktop. While some people might think that Apple TV is just for fun, it can now blur the lines between work and play and represents the best the post-PC era has to offer.

Work Smarter with Presentation Mode *
Use an external monitor or AirPlay in iOS 5 and the iPad display turns into a trackpad / keyboard while the external screen shows your View desktop!

Speaks Your Language
The latest VMware View client is now available in English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. When working multi-byte Asian languages, the new local input mode enables you to type in full lines of complete multi-byte words and then send them to your View desktop.

The new VMware View Client for iPad is available in the Apple App Store today! Check it out!

For those of you who follow this blog and use Android based tablets. Today we are happy to release our production Android clients for Android Tablets and the Cisco Cius. After all it is about supporting the tablet you choose.

VMware View Client for Android Tablets and the Cisco Cius
Whether you are using a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 or 10.1, an LG/T-mobile G-Slate, a Motorola Xoom or any of the other newly available Honeycomb-based Android tablets or the Cisco Cius, you can get the most of your View desktop on the Android tablet you choose.

Optimized for VMware View 5
The VMware View Client for Android Tablets is the first Android client to support the PCoIP display protocol for best performance with VMware View 4.6 and View 5 users. With support for VMware View 5, you can get better performance with reduced bandwidth options as well as more resilient connections to your View desktop.

Move Back and Forth between Windows Desktop and Android Apps
Leveraging the power of Android multitasking, you can jump from your Windows desktop to another Android app and then right back into the Windows desktop to where you left off!

Speaks Your Language
The latest VMware View Client for Android is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. When working multi-byte Asian languages, local input mode enables you to type in full lines of complete multi-byte words and then send them to your View desktop.

The new VMware View Client for Android Tablets is available in the Android Marketplace and the VMware View Client for Cius will soon be available in Cisco’s AppHQ. Check them out today!

Yesterday I found I ♥ View 5 T-Shirt at my Postbus. Thank you VMware Nederland for the T-Shirt

The VMware View created a funny video to celebrate the release of View 5.

Check out the Video

VMware Party Rock Parody

And off Course the New features in View 5:

PCoIP WAN performance optimization – Improvements on PCoIP protocol performance in low-bandwidth WAN environments. Users who connect to their desktops over an external WAN have enhanced desktop experience.

PCoIP Build-to-Lossless – PCoIP now provides the ability to turn off Build-to-Lossless. This is the feature that puts PCoIP in parity with ICA when the discussion is around bandwidth consumption. Build-to-Lossless is ON by default and included in the PCoIP protocol within VMware View. I have prepared another post specifically to discuss this feature along with other important changes to the display protocol.

VMware Client Side Caching – VMware View Client (Windows Only) now implements a client side image caching to store portions of the display that were previously transmitted. Image caching reduces the amount of data that is retransmitted and improve user experience. This cache can be managed and it’s size can be modified. I have prepared an article specifically to address this feature.

Support for 3D graphics on vSphere 5.0 – This feature provides View desktops with vGPU graphics enablement available on vSphere 5.0 platforms (hardware version 8). View users can take advantage of desktop graphics enhancements provided by AERO (such as peek, shake, and Flip 3D) and the 3D capabilities of Windows Office 2010 (such as picture editing, slide transitions and animations, presentation-to-video conversion, video embedding, editing, and 3D rotations). Include here: Support for DirectX9 and OpenGL 2.1

View Persona Management – The View Persona Management feature manages user profiles in a secure and centralized environment. (User profiles include user data and settings, application data and settings, and Windows registry settings configured by user applications.) View Persona Management allows IT organizations to simplify and automate the capture and management of a user’s persona while providing a rich user experience. View Persona Management offers the following benefits:

• Provides a user profile that is independent of the virtual desktop. When a user logs into any desktop, the same profile appears.
• Lets you configure and manage personas entirely within View. You do not have to configure Windows roaming profiles.
• Expands functionality and improves performance compared to Windows roaming profiles.
• Minimizes login impact by downloading only the files that Windows requires, such as user registry files. Other files are copied to the local desktop when the user or an application opens them from the local profile folder.
• Copies recent changes in the local profile to a remote profile repository at configurable intervals, typically once every few minutes.

Client certificate checking for Windows Clients – You can configure remote Windows clients to require certificate verification. Users without valid certificates are denied access to View Connection Server. Alternatively, you can use a Warn But Allow mode that supports self-signed server certificates and lets users connect to View Connection Server with certificates that have expired or are not yet valid. You can also set a No Security mode that lets users connect without certificate checking.

Support for vSphere 5.0 and hardware v8 – Remote View desktops can be hardware v8 virtual machines. Hardware v8 is not supported for desktops that run in local mode.

At the customer where I work there was a college, he wants to use 2 monitors on his view workplace.

We use the Wyse P20 zero client.

Step 1 was to config the VMware View Desktop Pool Multiple Monitor Support

Ensure your desktop pool is configured to support 2 monitors.

Sign into the VMware View Administrator go to Inventory go to Pools. Select your Pool  Click the Edit button. Go to the Pool Settings Tab under Remote Desktop Protocol change the max number of monitors to 2.

Step 2. Choosing Multi-monitor in VMware View Client

In the VMware View client you must enable multiple monitor support. However, when we used the Zero client (Wyse P20) to connect to your virtual desktop pool the Display option isn’t even present. So what you need to do is access the VMware View Client on a desktop PC or Laptop, sign in as the user that needs multiple monitor support, select the desktop pool and set the display to Multimonitor.  Login and wait till the desktop is fully loaded and then logoff. Then when the user signs in on the Zero client (Wyse P20) Multiple Monitor support will be engaged because you set it previously..

VMware is organizing a nine-part VMware View Bootcamp: every day a new video is published for you to view. At the end of this bootcamp, you will have a good understanding of the VMware View solution, how to roll it out and how to optimize View in your environment. A free e-book of all the presentations is included in this bootcamp series. A hope I can download the free e-book . Because I am going on Holiday next week.

VMware View Bootcamp Series

Design Considerations Guidelines for VMware View – Overview

• Speaker – John Dodge, Sr. Manager PSO Services, VMware
• Overview of the technical considerations to keep in mind while you’re designing a View environment

Watch the Video

Storage Deep Dive – Considerations and Best Practices

• Speaker – Jim Yanik, Sr. Systems Engineer, VMware
• How to design your storage infrastructure to fit your environment
• Sizing and workload considerations

Watch the Video

Network Considerations and Best Practices

• Speaker – Shannon McFarland; Consulting Engineer for Data Center technologies and Enterprise IPv6 design on Cisco’s Consulting Engineering team in the Office of the CTO, Cisco
• Network requirements for LAN and WAN
• Bandwidth requirements deep dive
• Security considerations – Security Server, AV, Encryption, Authentication

Watch the Video

Optimizing the Base Image for VMware View

• Speaker – Todd Dayton, Staff Product Manager, Desktop Product Management, VMware
• How to build and tune your desktop image
• User and workload considerations
• OS specific tips (XP, Win7)

Watch the Video

Delivering Applications

• Speaker – Heath Doer, Sr Systems Engineer, VMware
• Packaging and updates (applink and appsync)
• Best practices-storage, image management and application deployment
• Application migration, application conflict and compatibility

Watch the Video

PCoIP Implementation Overview and PCoIP Tuning Best Practices

• Speaker – Chuck Hirstius, PSO, WW Advanced Services, VMware
• How to optimize PCoIP for different types of workloads
• How to optimize for LAN, mobile and remote users
• Bandwidth requirements

Watch the Video

Automating View 4.5 with Powershell

• Speaker – Tom Elliot, Sr. MTS, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
• Introduction to View PowerCLI
• Setting up an environment and basic tasks
• Creating your own scripts
• Integrating with vSphere

Watch the Video

Leveraging Security Server for PCoIP

• Speaker – Mark Benson, View Architect, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
• Introduction to Security Server

Watch the Video

VMware View’s Reference Architecture

• Speaker – Mac Binesh, Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, Enterprise Desktop, VMware
• Review of RA for stateless desktops
• Description of test environment, equipment and lab results

Watch the Video

Reboot and then setup continues
 
 
 

Edit Package.ini

Add the following line under:
[VMware View Client.exe]
Source=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.exe
;Change ReadOnlyData to bin\Package.ro.tvr to build with old versions(4.6.0 or earlier) of tools
ReadOnlyData=Package.ro.tvr
WorkingDirectory=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\
ObjectTypes=VMware_VDM_Client;VMware_VDM_Client.1
Shortcuts=%Desktop%;%Programs%\VMware;%AppData%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Commandline=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc –serverurl viewdemo.wardvissers.nl

Open Project Folder:
Remove the following Folders

%AppData%
%Common Desktop%
%Common Programs%
%Desktop%
%drive_C%
%Local AppData%
%Personal%
%Profile%
%Program Files Common%
%SystemRoot%

Then Click on Build