User Environment Manager 9.7

User environment Manager 9.7 is the latest release of the environment management tool. It seems more of a maintenance release, with the usual fixes and only one main update

App Volumes 2.16

VMware releases are coming think and fast this month. App Volumes 2.16 is the latest release of their app layering technology. The release contains a few new updates and the usual security patches and bug fixes.

Horizon 7.8

This week saw the release of VMware Horizon 7.8. If you’re wondering what’s included, i’ve gathered a few links which should help. VMware are trying really hard to close the feature gap between the old Flash admin console and the new HTML5 console and seem to have been great progress with this release. Hopefully it won’t be too long before we see the end of the Flash gui.

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Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 3.5

Last week saw the release of a new version of Unified Access Gateway.

Desktop Repurposing

Late last year myself and a colleague Matt Evans at VMware did an assessment of some of the desktop repurposing options out there. The idea wasn’t to choose a winner, just to assess what’s out there and present the capabilities.

For those not aware, desktop repurposing is the process of turning traditional windows endpoints into easy to manage and more secure endpoints such as Linux for example. These can then all be centrally managed and can connect to virtualised desktops and applications products such as VMware Horizon.

Here is a video of the output from the project

How VMware and Dell are improving the Windows 10 on boarding experience

I’ve already written a blog post entitled ‘the end of imaging’ which explains how out of the box enrolment can now be used to simplify the rollout of Windows 10 devices.

The end of imaging

Anyone who has ever been involved in provisioning and managing Windows PCs will be familiar with the term ‘imaging’. For those of you not familiar with it, it refers to the process of preparing a computer before giving it to an end user by replacing the version of Windows on the machine.

What’s new in User Environment Manager 9.6

User Environment Manager has a new version, 9.6, with the following new features:

What’s new in VMware App Volumes 2.15

As the VMware JMP platform gathers pace, App Volumes 2.15 sees some more updates to the app layering technology:

Horizon domain filtering

From time to time this seems to crop up so i thought i’d share with you some info about a lesser known feature of Horizon. That is the ability to apply filters to domain lists that Horizon shows at users login prompts. By default, Horizon will scan it’s own domain and all other trusted domains and return all of them. Many customers don’t want to confuse their users and just want them to see a single domain option.