Wednesday, December 1, 2010

VMware View 4.5

Two things: They took out the ActiveX control out of the View Client (hopefully they bring it back later on), and the View Security Server ONLY SUPPORTS RDP – NOT PCOIP.

I setup a whole environment for a client and was testing away, only to find out that the Security Server (the part that goes in the DMZ and handles the Web redirects to the View Server) does not do PCOIP. The VMware docs do mention it, but only a single line that says that the Security Server will be ignored if PCOIP is picked as a protocol (which is the default too) on the View Client.  This is probably not the greatest arrangement and I am sure VMware is going to need to make adjustments – if only to allow the View manager to set a different default for the Security server than for the regular View server.

Everything else with View 4.5 seems to work great.

Jim

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