This is really an urgent information that has been sent out today to all WSM customers. Dell Wyse informed them to apply a just released hotfix to their WSM 4,x and 5.x servers as soon as possible but before beginning of June. The reason behind this, is an issue within the licensing mechanism. On June 2nd 2013 each license that has been applied to the servers will become invalid. The WSM server will interpret all licenses after that date as expired, resulting in stopping all functions of the server and no images are provisioned then.

To avoid that bevavior you should install that hotfix directly to all of your WSM server. The hotfix can be downloaded from the www.wyse.com download site (https://appservices.wyse.com/pages/serviceandsupport/support/downloads.asp).

But what about customers still running WSM 3.x or earlier? These customers have two options. First is, if they have a valid maintenance, to upgrade their environment for free to WSM 5.01. If they don't have a maintenance then they either have to pay for the update or contact Wyse to get a new, free, valid and working license. This is, what you should do in this latter case:
a) Log in to the WSM admin console and click on the "About" link on the WSM admin portal (top right corner).
b) Take a screen shot of this page or using the snipping tool (windows 7 and higher) or similar tools take a screen snippet of the "Product License Information"
c) Paste this screen shot/snippet in an email and send it to wysecss@wyse.com. Dell Wyse will respond to you with a new license file and instructions for installation
 

Less than 3 weeks to go. So hurry up and patch your environment.

Hi Quest vWorkspace users,

just saw this great posting which explains in Detail what to configure to get Dell Wyse Thin OS running with Quest vWorkspace.
Check it out: http://communities.quest.com/community/vworkspace/blog/2013/01/14/configuring-dell-wyse-thinos-devices-with-dell-vworkspace

ConfGen

This week the CES 2013 (Consumer Electronics Show) takes place in Las Vegas. Among many vendor Dell Wyse is one of them. And beside a lot of already well known thin clients, cloud clients or software, Dell Wyse announced a new project called Ophelia.
Ophelia is an Android based USB stick that can be plugged into nearly every TV. The only things your TV has to have is a USB and a HDMI port. If you already have one of the new MHL, or Mobile High-Definition Link, then you can use only this one as Ophelia gets its power normally via USB and in the latter case MHL support USB over HDMI.

From that point of view Ophelia does not bring anything really new. You can use your Google Apps, play some games and connect to your infrastructure via RDP. So, assuming you are on the road and do not want to carry your laptop with you, then you can simply plug in this stick to your eg. hotel TV and connect to your server backend to work.
The USB stick is fully manageable via the Cloud Client Manager from Wyse.

The problem, in my opinion, would still be the input device. I haven't seen any touch-enabled TVs in any hotel room I have ever stayed. Maybe I am living not in the best hotels but I don't think this is a standard or will be soon. Therefore you will need a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. Any carrying this around plus the USB stick sums up to nearly the sme weight. OK, you can say now that a laptop is not that secure and if you loose this is more risky and more expensive. True, of course. But if this is your concern, then you can switch to the Dell Wyse X-class laptop style thin client. This one is cheap, has no data locally to loose, has an inbuild keyboard and touchpad and the ability to connect your backend also.
In my opinion this would be the better choice. But I am curious to see what Dell Wyse comes up with, when this puppy is really available.

Just before Christmas Dell Wyse has thrown a nice little gift to all of us. They have released the new version of  their provisioning tool called WSM. For those of you, that are not familiar with that product, WSM is a great tool to push Microsoft OS like XP, Vista, Windows 7 and even Windows 8 to nearly any PC hardware in your company. This all happens purely over the network with nothing to be installed or maintained on the client system. If a client has to be replaced, you just replace the hardware and the server is streaming the selected OS to the client over the wire. That way you only have to manage one image for the entire company. No need to patch, manage, fix or update the image on all clients any more.
Any the best is, that on top of the OS you can also stream the desired applications independently of the OS.

In the new 5.0.1 version (BTW, no idea where version 5.0 stucks and why they directly jumped to 5.0.1), Dell Wyse has implemented

Hi,

I have just uploaded a new PDF which describes the best pratices on how to configure HDX flash to work smooth with Thin OS or Xenith devices.

Hope this helps you as much as it helped me.

www.freewysemonkeys.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=visit&lid=52

ConfGen

This week Dell Wyse (uhh, that still sounds strange to me but it is getting better every day) has announced two new hardware plattforms.

With the new D-class Dell Wyse wants to shorten the gap between the C-class and the high performance Z-class units. Beside that they position this unit directly against the HP t510, which falls really short in a direct comparison. But more on this later.
The new D-class will be equiped with an AMD dual core processor running at 1.4GHz. With up 4GB DDR3-1066MHz of RAM, up to 8 GB flash, one DVI-I, one Displayport, 10/100/1000 Mbit/s network card, optional Fiber NIC, wireless or bluetooth module, composite audio and 4 USB 2.0 port, the unit is really well loaded. You can get this one preinstalled with the Wyse enhanced SUSE Linux (D50D), WES 2009 (D90DW) or WES 7 (D90D7). Also a unit without any OS (D00D) for use with Wyse WSM or any other provisioning software is available.
 

When it comes to a benchmark comparison the HP does not look very good. I did some test here in my lab and it looks like the D-class has an approximately 40% faster CPU and between 40-75% (2D vs 3D) higher graphics performance. And all this with a lower power consumption of only 9 Watt.

The second hardware plattform that was announced is the successor of the VMware View dedicated P20. Dell Wyse has announced not only one but two new upcoming units named P25 and P45.

The P25 comes in a housing that is very similar to the T-class. It is only a little bit bigger but has on Displayport and one DVI-I Port to connect two digital displays at the same time and finally USB 2.0 ports. Along with the new "Tera 2" PCoIP chipset from Teradici this unit is well prepared for demanding, graphics-intensive applications like CAD/CAM or HD multimedia.

The P45 has the same "Tera 2 " PCoIP chipset but can control up to 4 displays through 4 integrated Displayports. 

Both units have a 10/100/1000 MBit/s NIC inbuild but can be equipped with a Fiber NIC if needed. WLAN is not possible though. 

Hi,

although I typically do not write about or post topics not dealing with Wyse, this time it is different.
Today I saw a great little 7min video which grabs the Google Glasses hype and extends it to a vision that I am not sure I really want to "see".

But take a look yourself.

Last week the Citrix Synergy took place in San Franciscos Moscone Convention Center. This is the biggest Citrix event with several thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhabitors.

During that event Wyse announced the Xenith 2 client. This brand new client will be based on the T-class hardware with its ARM based System-on-a-chip SoC design running the Wyse Zero Engine.
The video performance is much better than with the first Xenith introduced nearly 2 years ago. You can easily play H.264 or wmv coded videos in fullscreen without any interruption or latency. Even if you rotate one of two possible screen to use a so called L-shape (or Pivot) constellation, the video performance remains the same.
As the Xenith 2 is using the Wyse Zero Engine you still have no published APIs, no well known ports, no

Just a quick warning on the new WDM 4.9.1 release. My first quick tests indicate that this version is only running on english server OS. You should not install it on any international server OS version at the moment. Wyse will give an update on this in the coming weeks.

Other than stated in the release notes, WDM 4.9.1 does install fine on a 32 bit OS, like Windows 2003 or Windows 7.

Besides the new Thin OS firmware, Wyse has also released a new WDM version. It is called WDM 4.9.1 and the main focus in this build is on security.
Wyse has enhanced its attempts to make WDM even more secure than it is today (or yesterday). All HAgents (the WDM agent that resides on the client) have been reworked to enable the new features.

Even during the WDM installation you are now getting several replies if your system is secure or not. If it isn't secure then you get the info on how to make it secure. The main security feature is to check if https is enabled or not. As long as only ftp and http is used for communication and package distribution, the system is not secure. So the hint is, of course, to disable ftp and http and enable only https.
Be aware that disabling ftp means that you are no longer able to push a firmware upgrade to a P20. But this really only affects the P20. All other clients do support http and https as upgrading protocols.

Along with the new WDM version Wyse has also released a cool WDM Security Guide in their knowlegde base. Check it out and do a search for document ID 22428.