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.

Wyse has released a new Thin OS version soon. It is version 7.1_122. This is a maintenance release, so if you have a valid maintenance you are able to download it for free now via the Wyse commerce website.

These are the new features:
- WDM HAgent redesign
- CMOS central management: you can easily pull and push the CMOS via wnos.ini settings
- Wild card certificates
- VMware View client security updates
- Wyse VDA 2.0 support

One more thing I just saw in the latest code was, that if you want to remote shadow the device via VNC or WDM and you do not have a VNCpassword defined, it will fail.
Looks like this is part of the higher security settings Thin OS is coming with in this release.
Another security related topic is the new WDM Hagent implementation. Wyse has reworked the HAgent communication to make it more secure and spoof-proven.

Back from skiing and back to business. That was quite a surprising news I got during my absence. The well known PC maker Dell has announced its intend to acquire Wyse. Due to some rumors Dell will buy Wyse for a whopping 1 billion dollar (almost 770 million Euro). That's not bad for a Thin Client vendor. But Dell seems not to only look at the hardware Wyse is selling but more likely they are very interested in the patents and software products like Pocket Cloud, WSM or the Wyse owned Thin OS.

Pretty sure Dell can easily design own Thin Client hardware. But getting the same knownledge and expertise in this computer section isn't that easy. So it was easier to buy Wyse.

According to some internals to whole deal should be finalize in the very near future. So we can assume that everything is done until beginning of summertime.

One nice story around that is, that Dell Germany has just signed a contract with the German Thin Client vendor IGEL. IGEL is the biggest player in the German market but not well known outside the country. Together with Dell IGEL has just celebrated the sale of the one millions Thin Client. Whereas Wyse has already sold more than 20 million clients. Quite interesting what will happen to that contract, now that the Dell mother has bought Wyse. Looks like IGEL is loosing here its just big celebrated partner sooner than they would like.

Maybe I have to think now about renaming this site to FreeDellMonkeys or I just stay with technicalhelp ;-)

 Today Dell announced the definite intent to buy Wyse. This way Dell could offer an end to end solution for their customers from datacenter to desktop. 

As I am skiing in Austria at the moment I cannot give you more information at the moment but will update you later. 

Last week Wyse announced the arrival of the Wyse T10 thin client, a new Wyse ThinOS-based product at the Cisco Live tradeshow in London (BTW, I was onsite and checked this first hand). This new product is the latest member of the Wyse T class family of ARM-based system-on-chip (SoC) thin clients, initially introduced last year with the Wyse T50 thin client which is based on Wyse enhanced Linux.  This new T10 is a real killer. I had the opportunity to get my hands on one unit upfront and have to say that this unit is by far the best and fastest Wyse ThinOS unit I have ever seen.

Running on a Marvel 1GHz ARM SoC processor and equipped with 4 USB 2.0, one DVI-I, Audio In/Out and an optional built-in wireless B/G interface, this unit is well prepared for all environments. Its version of Wyse ThinOS is specially optimized for the ARM SoC and supports

High performance thin client built on enterprise-class SUSE Linux for the most demanding virtual desktop environments

But, based on the very robust and easy to use SLED plattform, Wyse has extended its offering of Linux clients. Beside the already available C50LE and R50L, we now have the choice to select three more models.
The Z50S and Z50D are both looking the same, but the S and D suffix indicate a different processor in the unit. The Z50S is driven by an AMD 1.5 GHz single core processor, whereas the Z50D is running with a AMD 1.6GHz dual core one. This makes these two units really fast, which is of couse benefitial for all user who need multimedia applications running.
The third unit is called X50M. This is the first Linux based mobile client Wyse has ever released. Following the success of the WES and WES7 based mobile clients, Wyse has decided to enrich the world with a Linux based one.
Such a mobile device can be used in various spaces like medical care (hospitals), schools, warehouses but also for you people driving or flying around and do not want to loose any data, when the device gets stolen.

Wow, what a long time since I have written an article here. But at the end of last year I was very busy and did not find the time, although Wyse has released quite new interesting stuff. But as this is now available for some time, I will concentrate on the new and upcoming stuff.

Wyse is First to Deliver Microsoft RemoteFX Certified Desktop and Mobile Thin Clients

This announcement is very significant, in that Wyse is the first and only company to reach this elite level of thin client certification with Microsoft. The Wyse ThinOS-based R10L, and Windows Embedded Standard-based R90L7, Z90S7, Z90D7, X90c7, and X90m7 desktop and mobile thinclients have undergone an extensive series of rigorous tests, defined and audited by Microsoft,that confirm that these products are all highly suited to deliver RemoteFX applications.
RemoteFX, which consists of a number of enhancements to Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), is designed to deliver a rich user experience with support of enhanced multimedia and 3D graphics applications. RemoteFX delivers a rich VDI user experience by providing a 3D virtual adapter, intelligent codecs, and the ability to redirect USB devices in virtual machines. It also enables shared encryption, authentication, management, and device support.

Today Wyse has released a new HAgent for their WES2009 and WES7 based units like C-, R-, Z- or X-class. This Hagent version (WES2009 is 5.1.1.59 and WES7 is 6.0.0.32) is fixing some crashing issues when connecting to the WDM server. In detail:
- Crashed occurs while communicating via HTTPS and root CA is pushed to thin client.
- and when DNS SRV records are longer than 25 characters.

You can download the new HAgent directly from the Wyse website for free.