At VMworld 2009 VMware announced an OEM agreement with RTO Software, to integrate their Virtual Profiles technology into VMware View. This was an important step for VMware due to the gap of a Windows profile management solution. Today VMware announced the acquisition of RTO Software and their product portfolio. With RTO VMware View will have a great persona management in the View solution.

A few month ago I wrote an article about using VMware View 3 with Novell eDirectory. At this time I was testing the installation with View 3, a Novell Netware eDirectory (not Open Enterprise Server) and a Active Directory Server which users and passwords were in sync through DirXML. As you see this environment has two gaps: It needs two directories and it uses a legacy Netware server which will not longer be supported in the future by Novell. Lots of Novell customers have already migrated their environment to OES …

Usually the persistent desktop design offers a chance to assign a virtual desktop to a user on first connect/use. The administrator entitles the user or a user group which inherits the users account to a persistent desktop pool but the virtual desktop assignment would be done on first use. However sometimes it may require a pre assignment which can be done the following way.

VMGuru.nl published a new article on sizing a VMware View infrastructure. He talks about CPU, memory, storage and also network recommendations.

View 4 with PCoIP does support 4 screens with a maximum resolution of 1920×1200 per monitor. Mostly I see customers with the requirement for two screens and very often they are asking for the Pivot function where you can flip the screen from T-scale to L-shape like shown in the photo.

As Warren Ponder says on the VMware Community Blogs just in Christmas time there will be an updated version of the PCoIP zero client firmware that works with View 4 and PCoIP. For those of you who doesn’t know the story about Teradici and the hardware based solution you should definitely check Warren’s article. Also he posted a new video which shows the brilliant performance of PCoIP from a Teradici hardware zero client to a virtual machine hosted on VMware infrastructure.

VMware View 4 with vSphere for Desktops is the leading desktop virtualization solution on the market. It includes several of new features but the main highlight is the software PCoIP integration which offers a great user experience on LAN and WAN networks. See this article for the complete new feature list.

Finally its here, View4 is now available for download:
https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/p/download.php?p=view4&lp=1
Release notes are here:
https://www.vmware.com/support/view40/doc/releasenotes_viewmanager40.html

VMware View 3.1.2 download
Release notes
What’s New in View Manager 3.1.2
VMware View Manager 3.1.2 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases. Refer the Resolved Issues section for more details.
This release also includes one new feature.
Virtual Printing Multi Session Support
In this release, the virtual printing (ThinPrint) feature is updated to provide support to the users connected to multiple virtual desktops. With this update, the ThinPrint client enables users to map the printers on each virtual desktop that you are connected to.

Resolved Issues
The resolved issues are grouped …

A colleague of mine had a requirement from his security-department to disable the ability to use “weak ciphers” to connect to the security server.