VMware View 5 Desktop Virtualization Solutions - Book

When it comes to VMware View technical info Andre Leibovici's myvirtualcloud.net blog is the best. You could imagine my surprise to hear that he teamed up with Jason Langone to write a book about...  you guessed it, VMware View 5!! It's published by PackT and you can pre-order it here.

Windows 8 Task Manager - Finally Some Usefulness

Windows 8 even with its controversial new interface is making some great strides in providing better information at your fingertips. Just take a look at the new Task Manager interface compared to previous iterations!

Building Windows 8

Steve Jobs - Rest In Peace

Steve Jobs dies at age 56...  I was never really a big fan of Apple computers but I was always amazed at the constant and powerful forward momentum that Mr. Jobs brought to that company. He was an amazing CEO and innovator. I was a child of the 80's and grew up around every iteration  of the personal computer that Apple brought to the table. It's hard to not feel as though a part of my soul, my inner geek was lost today.....

Steve Jobs you will be remembered, always!!!

Some of my Favorite VDI Websites

I am attending the VMware View 4.5 Fast Track course in Santa Clara this week and thought I would share some of my favorite VDI sites.

http://www.myvirtualcloud.net/

http://www.thatsmyview.net/

http://paulslager.com/

http://www.thincomputing.net/

Gunnar's Blog

Fresh from VMworld.... VMware View 5 Advances User-Centric Computing Model Enabling a Better Desktop

By Warren Ponder, director, Product Management, End-User Computing, VMware

As the post PC-era continues to settle in, everyday it becomes more evident; how user work, how we access data, what applications we use and the devices we use to do so, is changing. It is not as much about what we do, but how we do it that is changing. User types are becoming more clearly apparent such as tethered users; user who work in a traditional office space daily with an assigned location and users who increasingly are becoming more mobile. 

The challenge this creates for IT organizations is how they adapt to the changing landscape, transition and maintain the legacy services and managing their environments as efficiently as possible while delivering the maximum value to their end users.  

VMware View 5, announced today at VMworld 2011 in Las Vegas, further builds and expands on providing this capability to IT organizations as they transform legacy PC services into end-user computing cloud services. With VMware View 5 a new level of services are now possible, allowing organizations to take the next step toward transitioning more use cases toward end-user cloud services.

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VMware Announces View 5 - VMworld 2011, Las Vegas

VMware Announces New Products and Services for the Post-PC Era

VMware View™ 5 to deliver new levels of innovation and simplicity with protocol enhancements,
advanced 3D graphics, scalable unified communications and integrated persona management

VMware Horizon™ extends benefits of cloud-based application management to virtualized Windows applications and connected mobile workspaces

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 30, 2011 —Advancing its vision for the future of end-user computing in the post-PC era, today at VMworld®, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced new solutions to help IT organizations empower a more agile, productive and connected enterprise.

"As our customers begin to embrace this shift to the post-PC era, we offer a simple way to deliver a better Windows-based desktop-as-a-service that empowers organizations to do more with what they already have,"said Christopher Young, vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. "At the same time, we are investing in expertise and delivering the open products needed to accelerate the journey to a new way to work beyond the Windows desktop. This combination of empowered users and flexible IT as a service, enables a new working style that leads to a more connected enterprise."

The growing VMware End-User Computing portfolio seeks to free employees and enterprise IT from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing, and delivers a more user-centric, IT as a service experience for the connected enterprise. In this new model, enterprises leverage hybrid cloud resources, while maintaining a managed, secure environment, and providing new ways for employees to collaborate across applications and data from any device, where and when a user needs it. ...more...

ThinApp 4.6.2 Released!!

VMware just released the new version of ThinApp. In version 4.6.2 you’ll find the following features.

• Several enhancements have been made in the ThinDirect component, and many known issues addressed, to improve performance and stability.
• ThinDirect now supports the redirection of all browser pages except a specified list of URLs, instead of only supporting the redirection of only a list of specified URLs.
• New parameters have been added to the thinreg utility to enhance search and exclude functionality.
• The THINREG utility can now uninstall applications without dependence on .vbs file association to run the uninstall script.
• Microsoft Office 2007 application startup times have been improved by approximately 30%.
• The IgnoreDDEMessages parameter has been added to the Package.ini file. This parameter, which is automatically set for virtualized Internet Explorer 6 packages, causes an application to ignore any DDE messages that it receives, meaning that it can be used to ensure Document Open operations always launch in the native application and not an open virtual application.

  
  

  Check out http://www.vmware.com/products/thinapp/overview.html