Comments for The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog

Comment on vWorkspace 6.0 Feature Spotlight: User Profile Management by Christian Benn

Christian Benn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:32:17 +0000

The company I work for is thinking about implementing vWorkspace User Profile Management. Since we currently are running a VDI environment using vWorkspace, this should not be a problem.

I spoke with another administrator that is running a Citrix Terminal Services environment and is looking for a user profile management tool. Can the Quest User Profile Management tool be purchased separate of vWorkspace \ is it licensed separately?

Comment on MR2 (Maintenance Release 2) for Quest vWorkspace Web Access 6.2 by Rob

Rob — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:10:41 +0000

I believe you DO have access to support through our support.quest.com website. If you don’t already have a profile create one and try to open a ticket. I will check with the proper channels and see what i can find out in the mean time. Please post back and let me/us know that you were sucessful in getting through to support (or not)

Comment on MR2 (Maintenance Release 2) for Quest vWorkspace Web Access 6.2 by Jason

Jason — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:49:14 +0000

I just installed vWorkspace 6.2 with Web Access on a server and tried installing MR 2, but the install hangs at the end. I uninstalled the entire product and tried again with the same result. Since I am trialing the product I do not seem to have access to support. Any suggestions?

Comment on Igel Technology announce inclusion of vWorkspace 6.x Linux client by Chris Petrie

Chris Petrie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:28:08 +0000

The IGEL UD5 (Linux) flys with Vworkspace 6.2 and has many nice features in the management suite, on the downside, Igels support is polite and willing and but just not good enough. I was raving about the performance etc of the UD5, until I realized that the none the keys on the mid section (Cursor keys and Home, delete etc) of the extended keyboard, work at all with the QR client. IGEL and Quest informed and currently clueless)

The Thinspace TST600 is much smaller than the UD5, but just as fast, but USB does not work. The management software is not as good as IGEL. (Thinspace and Quest informed and currently clueless)

IGEL and Thinspace are the best thin clients that I have seen to date (HP, Wyse, Chip PC etc) but the lack of support and urgency from everyone including Quest is holding back a fantastic solution.

Chris Petrie
IT Director Stephenson Harwood
(End user of many excellent Quest products)

Comment on vWorkspace 6.0 Feature Spotlight: User Profile Management by Patrick Rouse

Patrick Rouse — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:05:50 +0000

Settings are only exported at logoff, but if someone were logged onto more than one system at thye same time, we overcome the last logoff wins scenario by date/time stamping every setting that is exported, so one can make changes in all sessions without them being overwritten.

The idea of writing HKCU settings directly to the network introduces concerns about scalability and stability. What we do has been done for 6+ years in a shipping product and is bing used by thousands of customers on Citrix, Terminal Services and VDI.

By the way, the User Environment Configuration features of vWorkspace have been ported to VDI (vWorkspace Desktop Edition) inn 7.0 which is scheduled to ship in December.

Comment on Quest vWorkspace - Thin Client support by Jamie Schwinn

Jamie Schwinn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:50:56 +0000

Is there an updated ThinConnect firmware for HP t5145 that will work with vWorkspace 6.2? I installed the latest firmware available on HP’s website and I get an error when trying to connect to the vWorkspace connection broker that the VAS client version should be 5.10 or higher.

Comment on Quest EOP Accelerates Adobe Acrobat by JS

JS — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:47:02 +0000

Will this work in a Citrix XenApp environment also?

Comment on Igel Technology announce inclusion of vWorkspace 6.x Linux client by Holger Bui

Holger Bui — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:16:36 +0000

We already had SBC projects with thin clients from the German vendor IGEL Technology in conjunction with the Quest vWorkspace enterprise suite. So far we were using the clients with a customized Microsoft Windows Embedded Standard OS

The cool thing about the IGELs is that you can manage them centralized with the IGEL Universal Management Suite (UMS) for free. With this powerful management tool you can also push out the needed configuration for new thin client devices on the network incl. a customized MSI file that e.g. install the current vWorkspace windows client to the devices…

Up to now we had the series UD1 to UD5 and would recommend the use of UD3- or UD5 series because

1. UD1 series devices can’t be managed by the IGEL UMS.

2. UD2 series acts much slower within the RDP session than UD3 series devices as soon as it comes to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with terminal services enabled.

Thanks to Quest and IGEL for shaking hands.

Holger Bui
Terminal-Services.NET
http://www.sbcpro.de

Comment on What does “Initialize Computer” do, and how is it different from installing pntools? by Tony

Tony — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:57:07 +0000

Is there a 64 bit version of PNTools for Vista/Win7? When I try to deploy PNTOOLS from the console, I get an error that I need a 32bit version of windows? My VAS broker server is running Windows 2003 32-bit. I downloaded the 64 bit server installation, but don’t see it in the sip file, not sure if I can extract it though.

Thanks!

Comment on RDP Bitmap and Flash Acceleration by Mike Dingus

Mike Dingus — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:11:41 +0000

Is there any updated info on this???
The article is dated 6-13-08, its been over a year and i can not find anything else about it.
Did you guys give up for some reason, or am i missing something here??

Thanks,
Mike Dingus