What’s new in Horizon 7.7

 

The latest release of Horizon has arrived in the last week. For more info on what’s included see the following

Horizon 7.5 what’s new…

I’ve already posted on the new extended service branch feature in 7.5 but the product itself Is available as of today. In comparison to past updates it’s packed full of new features. Please review the link below to see what’s included:

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon-7/7.5/rn/horizon-75-view-release-notes.html#whatsnew

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App Volumes 2.14

App Volumes 2.14 is the latest version of the VMware application layering technology and is a key part of the Horizon virtual desktops and apps platform. Compared to some recent releases the 2.14 release contains quite a lot to be excited about:

Horizon Extended Service Branch

There’s a pretty big change coming in Horizon 7.5 which may appeal to some existing and prospective Horizon customers. It’s called Extended service branch. So what does this mean? Well, as of the release of 7.5, customer can choose from 2 tracks based on existing licenses.

New Horizon releases today!

No sooner are we into 2018 and VMware is already releasing new versions of some of it’s EUC products. Today sees new releases of the following:

Horizon 7.4 – new features

Session collaboration – allows up to 5 users to share their remote sessions. Works with client or HTML and works with high-end graphics.Works on Windows, Mac and Linux. This feature requires the Enterprise license. Blast is the protocol in use at the backend. Enabled at pool level or farm level for RDSH. Users can be invited from a system tray icon with the desktop. From here they can select from email, IM Skype for Business, or they can copy a link to send manually. Joining parties can join using HTML or the Horizon Client.

H264 High colour accuracy with 4:4:4 colourspace. Helps stop colour distortion. Particularly useful in high end graphics environments. Setting can be enabled by the end user in the client properties.

vPU support for RDSH

Cloud Pod Architecture enhancements – supports 1 way trust policies, supports mismatched version 7.x onwards

CART 4.7 new features

Linux instant clones for Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04

Skype for Business support Update 3 – support for Mac client, integration with Sharepoint, Yammer, Word and Outlook, Call delegation, Call via X, Active speaker identification, Volume control from remote desktop, Response groups. Finally support for H264 hardware cameras.

Latest versions of Win 10 support

Blast enhancements including smartcard reconnection after network loss

Enhancements to RDSH including vGPU, reconnecting USB devices, improved launch times

High Sierra Mac support with other Mac experience enhancements

Linux experience enhancements including seemless window support

Chrome experience enhancements including multiple monitors and drag and drop

Unified Access Gateway 3.2 – actually GA 22/12/2017

Identity bridging – cross domain/realm support (users and web app can be in different domains) only requirement is domains need 2 way trusts.

Admin UI certificate support

Secondary Admin role. Monitoring role can view, collect logs and export settings.

Edit some network settings from the admin UI. IP address and IP allocation mode

User Environment Manager 9.3

Outlook OST can be stored on Writable volume without requirement for Group policy. Just configured in App Volumes and User Environment Manager.

Added support for Win 10 1709

UEM now sends logon event messages to the Horizon VMLM.

NB: this is not a complete list. See release notes of all products for full list of updates

Horizon 7.1 – What’s new?

In case you’ve missed it, this week, VMware announced the imminent release of Horizon 7.1. Here’s a really quick rundown of what’s going to be in the 7.1 release.

VMware gears up for VMworld 2016 with August updates

As VMworld 2016 rapidly approaches, VMware has been busy getting ready the next bunch of product updates. Here are the lastest ones in case you missed them along with a link to the release notes.

App Volumes 2.11

In the last 24 hours, VMware has released a new version of App Volumes 2.11. There is probably some confusion around why they’ve released 2.11 when 3.0 came out in March so I’ll try to help you understand.

Horizon View 7 – What’s new?

VMware have released the latest version of their desktop virtualization product, Horizon View 7. The product has evolved over the years and is capable of catering for pretty much every desktop use case these days.

App Volumes 3.0 – What’s new?

VMware has released App Volumes 3.0 in the last couple of weeks, but it’s aimed at Horizon Air hybrid or Horizon Air users. VMware recommends staying with 2.10 for Horizon on prem deployments. 

For those of you that don’t know, its a real time application delivery platform that supports Horizon View and Citrix.