In a new blog article over at VMware View-Point, VMware’s Desktop CTO Scott Davis talks about broadening the View solution by extending the desktop vision to a wider range of devices and use cases. (Link) An interesting read for everyone who want’s to know more about CVP and Offline VDI.

A few folks have run into issues with View 4 where PCoIP doesn’t work exactly as they expect. This manifests itself in a couple of different ways: – Inability to resize the screen at all – Resizing that only works down instead of up. – Resizing that responds very slowly or that crashes after several [...]

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.

RSA technologies just released a new document on hardening VMware View environments and also integrating data loss prevention for VDI. Check the RSA knowledge base for more information or download it at Virtual Geeks website.

Yesterday Expand Networks announced immediate support for all VMware View 4 remote display protocols across Expand’s Accelerator range of WAN optimization solutions to securely enable, accelerate and control VMware View over the WAN. Expand’s benefit for Teradici PCoIP is the securely transport of PCoIP with standard or advanced tunneling options, eliminating the potential need of [...]

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 [...]

If you want to know if your Thin Clients are certified for VMware View 4 you should check the hardware compatability list at vmware.com. On the tab VMware View you can also search for features like PCoIP, MMR and Smart Card.

Nice video from Paul Maritz and Steve Herrod on Youtube.com. They reveal the latest developments in desktop virtualization from VMware.

Today VMware announced View 4, the industry’s first purpose built solution for delivering desktops as a managed service. The new version provides a consistent high performance desktop experience to the end users and reduces the total cost of desktop ownership by 50%. Based on VMware vSphere 4 the new solution offers Simplified Desktop Management, Automated [...]

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 [...]