VMware App Volumes 2.13

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Release Notes
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What's New in This Release

The 2.13 release of VMware App Volumes includes the following new features and enhancements:

• Support for concurrent AppStack assignment
  You can assign AppStacks to computers and users concurrently which results in improved login times. The AppStack is attached to the user when the user logs in and the computer-based AppStack is attached when the computer starts up.
• Limiting AppStack attachments
  You can limit the number of active attachments of an AppStack and configure each AppStack with the maximum number of concurrent assignments that you want to allow.
• Troubleshooting archives
  You can use App Volumes Manager to create archives of server logs and configuration files and download these files for troubleshooting App Volumes.
• Important enhancements to secure connection to Active Directory
  You can choose to connect securely from App Volumes Manager to an Active Directory using a CA root certificate, using either LDAPs (default) or LDAP over TLS.
• App Volumes Manager supports SQL Server 2016 and Microsoft Windows Server 2016. App Volumes agent supports Microsoft Windows Server 2016 (RDSH).

Miscellaneous Updates

• Support for TLS v1.0 protocol
  By default, communication over TLS v1.0 protocol from App Volumes agent is disabled. However, you can enable the communication using TLS v1.0 while installing the App Volumes agent, or by modifying the Nginx configuration file after installing the agent.
• Improved Reverse Replication
  Reverse replication option now runs in parallel with log in and can be delayed to allow the OS to complete resource intensive login activities.

Security Updates

App Volumes 2.13 release includes updates to many open source libraries. The updates resolve a variety of issues ranging from functional issues to security vulnerabilities. The copyright statements and licenses applicable to the open source software components distributed in VMware App Volumes 2.13 are available on the Open Source tab of the product download page. You can also download the source files for any GPL, LGPL, or other similar licenses that require the source code or modifications to source code to be made available for the most recent available release of App Volumes.

Resolved Issues:

• Issue with Smart Domain Controller when a private class IP address in not used.
• Application issues with Internet Explorer.
• UI issue with duplicate application icons.
• Visio/Project reconfiguration issue seen when deployed with same native Office image used for provisioning.
• Broken icons and search issues occurring during subsequent logins with Windows 10 1607 and Writable Volumes.
• Start menu will not launch on Windows 10 1607 with Writable Volumes after March cumulative update.
• Cases with 100% CPU consumption after deployment of Office in an AppStack.
• Files that are flagged as downloaded from internet or untrusted fail to open with Office applications when a Writable Volume is attached.
• Cannot insert duplicate key row in object dbo.users with unique index 'index_users_on_upn'.
• Writable Volume was not attached as 1000 error was returned from App Volumes Manager
• Trust between vCenter Server and App Volumes is lost when a SQL failover situation occurs.
• Log noise containing the following text: Unable to find known VM with Instance UUID is fixed.
• Performance challenges with Office under certain conditions.
• Virtual machine attached with an AppStack or Writable Volume freezes when searching for files and docs under C drive.
• Some machines offline after provisioning 2K instant clone pool.
• Error getting naming_contexts: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host.
• MS Short File names: GetFinalPathNameByHandle/FILE_NAME_OPENED normalizes the path.
• Recycle bin does not show multiple files upon deletion of files and folder.