Liquidware Labs, the leader in desktop transformation solutions, announced today it will showcase its award-winning solutions
ProfileUnity and
Stratusphere UX at
its Booth 608 at Citrix Synergy 2014. This event will also be the
first time that Citrix end-users will be able to see demonstrations of
Flex-IO, an innovative storage acceleration for non-persistent XenDesktop and XenApp desktops.
“We are extremely excited to preview upcoming product features at
Synergy,” said Jason Mattox, CTO of Liquidware Labs. “These new features
have been long demanded by our customers and channel partners who are
supporting sizeable Citrix deployments. To be able to offer
sophisticated feature sets in such affordable solutions will be welcome
news to attendees.”
ProfileUnity Application Rights Management, Trigger Points, and Support for Windows 8.x /Server 2012 r2
Attendees will be able to see a preview of significant new features
coming in a planned June release of ProfileUnity including Application
Rights Management, Trigger Points for profile and policy actions, and
support for Windows 8.x and Server 2012 r2.
New Application Rights Management (ARM) features in the solution will
enable ProfileUnity Administrators to securely grant specific Standard
Users detailed application rights without making them a Windows
Administrator. While some UEM vendors have separate products at
significant additional cost to cover ARM, the new features will come
standard in ProfileUnity v6.0 from Liquidware Labs.
ProfileUnity’s ARM capabilities include:
- Secure elevation of applications that require administrative rights for standard users
- Allow application installations on persistent virtual or physical for standard users
- Allow/Deny Process – whitelist/blacklist options for installed applications per user
Trigger Points are also being added to ProfileUnity as an option
to increase the frequency of User Profile saves and to assign resources
such as printers on a real-time context-aware basis. Trigger Points
will give the ProfileUnity agent the ability to detect environment
changes and apply an action. Examples include:
- Profile synch during session on application open and/or application close
- Location-aware printer reassignment during a user session based on session reconnect and/or dis-connect
- Assignment of applications, such as RDSH, virtual, or SAAS apps,
based on location-aware settings that have changed during user session
While Microsoft has announced that they’ll include a Start Menu
in Windows 8.x in an upcoming version, ProfileUnity v6.0 will deliver
classic start menu options to Windows 8.x. Administrators will be able
to specify an XP style or Windows 7 style Start Menu for Windows 8.x.
Liquidware Labs sees this option of increasing user adoption of Windows
8.x, helping with user productivity, and ending needless helpdesk call
from users new to the OS. Additionally, ProfileUnity v6.0 will include
profile and management support for Windows 8.x and Server 2012 r2.
Stratusphere UX ICA Protocol Support
Liquidware Labs Stratusphere UX will also be demonstrating support
for Citrix ICA metrics at this year’s Synergy event. With the addition
of ICA protocol metrics, Stratusphere UX will offer administrators,
engineers and systems architects the protocol-level visibility to
more-deeply support XenApp and XenDesktop environments. The visibility
to monitor, troubleshoot and provide health checks of virtual desktop
infrastructure or published applications is a growing and sophisticated
requirement in the support Citrix architectures. Initial enhancements
made to Connector ID Keys (CID Keys) will now provide host-to-endpoint
information relating to input/output throughput for audio and video. In
addition to overall ICA session bandwidth information, this new feature
will also include:
- Audio input and output metrics, supporting visibility when playing sounds in an ICA session
- Video input and output metrics, supporting visibility into HDX-enabled video streams and flash data within an ICA session
- Clipboard input and output metrics, supporting visibility when performing clipboard operations from within an ICA session
- Communications port input and output metrics, supporting visibility
of printer and serial port communications from within an ICA session
Future information and ICA metrics will be added as development
efforts continue. Plans to add Microsoft RDS metrics are also underway.