Comments for The Official Quest Software Desktop Virtualization Group Blog

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

Comment on Microsoft Licensing Requirements for Desktop Virtualization (VDI) by server hosting

server hosting — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:08:06 +0000

server hosting…

Before virtualization technology on the Intel platform, (It has been around for YEARS in the IBM mainframe/ midrange world!) the prospect of setting up your own server cluster just to“ mess around” with things was an expensive endeavor. This is pretty …

Comment on vWorkspace 6.0 Feature Spotlight: User Profile Management by Sean Clark

Sean Clark — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:55:55 +0000

I’m curious what happens if a session gets locked and has to be reset. Will Profile-IT save those changes? Or does that only happen at Log Off?

Comment on Quest vWorkspace 6.2 with NetApp: Deploy 100 Quest Virtual Desktops In 5 minutes with only 2 GB of Storage (!) by Holger Bui

Holger Bui — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:36:52 +0000

As an add-on Quest Software offers another interesting product that enables customers of NetApp® storage in conjunction with VMware to use their existing storage more efficiently and cost-effectively. Further on it can significantly improve VM performance.

What i am talking about is Vizioncore’s vOptimizer Pro. It’s worth a try!

Have a look at http://www.vizioncore.com/products/vOptimizerPro/ for the details or talk to your Vizioncore professional.

Kind regards,

Holger Bui
Terminal-Services.NET