Wyse just release the Wyse Pocket Cloud for iPhone! That’s something you should check out as a iPhone owner. The Pocket Cloud will give you access to RDP sessions and to VMware View 3.1.
VMware just released the Version 3.1.1, a new maintenance release of VMware View. You’ll find the details on the VMware View web site.
VMware View already came with USB redirection in his early stages but now with View 3.1, released last week it becomes more flexible. By default HID (Human interface devices) are filtered out because it wouldn’t be good to have the local keyboard, mouse or other device which is needed local, redirected to the virtual desktop [...]
A few weeks ago I’ve created a client feature matrix for my colleagues to get an overview of the supported functions in the different client operating systems. Jason Marshall liked the matrix and blogged it on the VMware View blog site.
If you are thinking about an virtual desktop infrastructure and you want to reuse old fat client PC as thin client devices maybe Thinstation is the right way for you. You can download the Live CD at the following address.
There is a new version of VMware View available for download at the VMware website. The version 3.1 includes loads of new features and great improvements. VMGuru.nl already has updated to the new version and wrote about it on their blog.
Great blog post on upgrading VMware View to version 3.1 over at VMGuru.nl. Eric Scholten who is a Solution Architect writes about his experience when updating their View broker. He also talks about the improvements of the new version.
The VMware View Client delivers useful information to the VMware View Agent which can be found in the virtual desktops Windows registry. This information can be used by scripts i.e. for mapping the right network printer based on the location of the View Client device.
Make sure to start with a fresh and current image. As of this writing that is 5.1.606 revA. Load the image and confirm that the green lock in the systray comes up green after all the rebooting. If you get a red “x” do it again.
Running Novell eDirectory with view is problematic and not supported. However here is how you do it if you feel so inclined. I would like to thank a very good customer of mine, Carl Hooker for helping me solve this riddle in his environment.