The new version of the VMware View Client is available for download. The new version comes with some great features.

• Optimized performance for VMware View 5
• Support for iOS5 including AirPlay
• Presentation Mode for use with external display and AirPlay
• Embedded RSA soft token simplifies login to desktop
• Background tasking to move between Windows and iOS apps

BTW: The new Android client is available too!

That was a surprise when I watched the VMware Lab Video from Brian Madden’s BriForum 2011 in London. My colleagues already showed a quick demo of the VMware View Client for Android tablets. It has exactly the same gesture recognition like the VMware View Client for iPads.

Link: BriForum 2011 London VMware Lab Video

Deploying the SAPGUI can be very time consuming in a large enterprise environment. It can even be worse if you’re using physical desktops, virtual desktops and terminal services because you may need to deploy it to different operating systems, what means that you have to package it several times. To make your live easier you could use VMware ThinApp and virtualize the application to get a single EXE file which can run isolated from the operating system and other applications for conflict-free execution on the different endpoint devices. After several month of QA testing SAP has now official support for packaging the SAPGUI with ThinApp. This support is documented in the SAP support note 66971.

You can get official support if you’re using the SAP GUI for Windows from version 7.20 patchlevel 5 and VMware ThinApp 4.6 or higher.

Here is some information from the note:

For the SAP GUI to work with Thinapp and Office 2003 you need to

change:

Search for “VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM=0 ” and uncomment it

by removing the “;” at the beginning of the entry.

o For the SAP GUI to work with Thinapp and Office 2007 (2010) you

need to change three parameters in the “package.ini” file found in

the project folder

a) Search for the saplogon.exe entry and add an additional line with

“ForcedVirtualLoadPaths=%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft

Office\Office12\PPCORE.DLL”

For Office 2010 the entry looks like this:

“ForcedVirtualLoadPaths=%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft

Office\Office14\PPCORE.DLL”

b) Search for the saplgpad.exe entry and add an additional line with

“ForcedVirtualLoadPaths=%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft

Office\Office12\PPCORE.DLL”

For Office 2010 the entry looks like this:

“ForcedVirtualLoadPaths=%ProgramFilesDir%\Microsoft

Office\Office14\PPCORE.DLL”

c) Search for “VirtualizeExternalOutOfProcessCOM=0 ” and uncomment it

by removing the “;” at the beginning of the entry.

Rebuild the package with “build.bat”

The usage of SAP GUI for Windows in conjunction with other virtualization

products like Microsoft App-V (Softgrid) is currently not supported.

If you need more information about virtualizing the SAP GUI with ThinApp please check the support note 66971.

Via: VMware blogs (Virtualization for SAP solutions)

Devon IT today announced that their VDI Blaster is certified for VMware View 4 now. VDI Blaster is a solution which repurposes PC’s and turns them into thin clients. Companies can download VDI Blaster to their PC’s with USB key or  via network install.

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Nice article on Peterro.com is showing how to install a VMware View Open Client for OSX. There are two know issues, one with the sound redirection and one with the Alt-F4 keyboard Combination but it’s worth to give it a try!

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Today two new articles for VMware View were created on VMware Knowledge Base which could help you if you have client or agent issues.

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