On July 13th Dell announced the next version of vWorkspace 8.6 at the Microsoft WPC. This version will be available end of this month.
It really has a lot of new features that even can save a lot of money when it comes to SCVMM management. Here is the full list:
Internationalization
- Added Unicode support for vWorkspace core products such as the Connection Broker and Web Access as well as the connectors.
- Localization
- Localized connectors for Chinese, Japanese, Korean.
- WSM
- Layering support via PowerShell
- Integrate virtual layers into a vWorkspace virtual desktop to separate departmental applications from the virtual desktop’s operating system.
- User Profile Layering
- Captures user profile data in a layer that can be accessed from any device.
- Hot High Availability
- Allows client streamed by WSM to seamlessly switch to a different WSM server in the event of failure.
- Centralized Site Management
- Provides single management UI for all WSM Sites.
- Layering support via PowerShell
- Advanced Hyper-v integration
- Full clone provisioning with Hyper-v
- This direct integration with Windows Server Hyper-V adds support for provisioning of full, persistent virtual machines where previous versions of vWorkspace HyperDeploy only supported differencing disk clones.
- High availability of Hyper-V hosts
- When using a Hyper-V cluster as the compute engine for your vWorkspace virtual desktops you have the option to set the virtual machines to be available across the cluster (High Availability).
- Full clone provisioning with Hyper-v
- vWorkspace Connectors
- Connector for Google ChromeOS
- This connector for ChromeOS provides a more native user experience than HTML5 and shall be available via the Google Chrome Web Store.
- Simplification
- Complete streamline of the vWorkspace Connectors’ user interface to improve end user ease of use.
- Email-based configuration
- Only thing user needs to know to obtain a configuration is their email and password.
- 64-bit
- Support for 64-bit Remote Desktop extensions (virtual channels)
- Connector for Google ChromeOS
- vWorkspace Connector for Windows – drag and drop
- Allows authorized users to drag files and content from their Windows PC and drop them into vWorkspace desktops and applications. This simplifies common workflows. For example; insurance agents can now drag files directly into the correct claim record of their hosted CRM application. This functionality is not available in the Windows native Remote Desktop Connection.
- Monitoring and diagnostics
- Monitoring of Microsoft Remote Desktop Licensing Service infrastructure
- Monitoring of vWorkspace WSM infrastructure