

Users can now connect to Hosted Apps from HTML Access Web clients. In past releases, this feature was supported only on VDI desktops that run on single-user machines. Windows Media MMR is now supported for videos playing on RDS desktops. Support for Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR) for RDS Desktops.Devices such as printers, bar code readers, and other serial devices can be connected to these ports and used in the remote desktops. With serial port redirection, users can redirect locally connected serial (COM) ports such as built-in RS232 ports or USB to Serial adapters. Some features such as SSO, automated provisioning, and local device redirection are not supported in this release. You can configure Linux virtual machines to use vDGA to support 3D graphics applications running on NVIDIA GRID GPU cards. With the View Agent for Linux installer, you can set up parent virtual machines or templates that run on Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, or NeoKylin and deploy Linux-based VDI desktop pools in View Administrator. You can now deploy Horizon 6 desktops on Linux virtual machines. The feature is supported on Windows clients and, as a Tech Preview, on Mac OS X clients. Client Drive Redirection is supported on VDI desktops that run on single-user machines and on RDS desktops and applications. Users can share folders and drives on their local client systems with remote desktops and applications. The version number would suggest that this update contains only minor changes or bugfixes, but in fact has some very nice new features. At the end of last week VMware released the latest version of VMware Horizon 6.1.1.
