VMware Horizon 7.0.2

This release is very big due to the new PowerCLI capabilities with Horizon PowerCLI. This is the first set in starting to allow automation to be used in Horizon view with out running the commands on the connection server.

VMware Official Links for Horizon 7.0.2

Release Notes

Software Download

GA Announcement from VMware

Before you upgrade:

• When upgrading VMware View Composer you have to upgrade Microsoft .NET framework to version 4.6.1 if you do not do this the install will fail.
• Also keep in mind if you have older clients that do not support TLSv1.1 or 1.2 they will not work after upgrading to Horizon 7 by default.

New Features:

• Client Drive Redirection 
  For Horizon Client 4.2 or Horizon 7 version 7.0.2 or later, if VMware Blast Extreme is enabled, files and folders are transferred across a virtual channel with encryption.
• Generic USB redirection for session-based desktops and remote applications 
  Customers can use generic USB redirection with Horizon RDS to redirect USB device peripherals to their session-based desktops and remote applications. By default, all device peripherals are excluded from using generic USB redirection. To enable USB redirection for USB peripherals, delete the following Windows registry key settings ExcludeAllDevices and IncludeFamily from the following path: HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc\VMware VDM\Agent\USB.
  This feature is only supported with Windows clients and with RDS desktops and applications running on Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2.
• Global data collected by VMware 
  If you join the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects data aboutTrue SSO for the View environment.
• Granular control of clipboard data formats 
  You can configure group policy settings to filter out specific data formats when users copy and paste data during PCoIP and VMware Blast sessions. For example, you can enable the Filter images out of incoming clipboard data setting to prevent users from copying images to their remote desktops. This feature provides added flexibility when you need to restrict copy and paste operations for security reasons.
• Horizon 7 for Linux desktops enhancements
  • Automated full-clone desktop pool
  • SSO for SLED 11 SP3 and SP4
  • Horizon Client 4.2.0 for Android
• Horizon PowerCLI
  • Horizon PowerCLI includes cmdlets that you can use with VMware PowerCLI. (This is still somewhat limited at this release)
• Real-Time Audio-Video for session-based desktops and remote applications 
  The Real-Time Audio-Video feature is supported with session-based desktops and remote applications. This feature also requires Horizon Agent 7.0.2 or later. This feature is supported with Windows, Linux, Mac clients and HTML access.
• Remote desktop operating systems 
  The following remote desktop operating systems are supported:
  • Windows 10 64-bit and 32-bit Enterprise and Professional; Build 1511
  • Windows 10 64-bit and 32-bit Enterprise Long Term Service Branch (LTSB); Fresh installation only; Build 1507
  • Windows 10 64-bit and 32-bit Anniversary Update; Fresh installation only; Tech preview only; Build 1607. Upgrade is not supported.
• Restrict remote desktop access outside the network 
  View administrators can allow access to specific entitled users and groups from an external network while restricting access to other entitled users and groups.
• Smart Cards for multiple user accounts 
  In some environments, a user's smart card certificate can map to multiple Active Directory domain user accounts. A user might have multiple accounts with administrator privileges and needs to specify which account to use in the Username hint field during smart card login. To make the Username hint field appear on the Horizon Client login dialog box, the administrator must enable the smart card user name hints feature for the Connection Server instance in View Administrator. The smart card user can then enter a user name or UPN in the Username hint field during smart card login.
• VMware Blast policy 
  View administrators can configure the H.264 Quality Blast policy settings to specify the image quality for the remote display configured to use H.264 encoding.
• vSphere Platform
  
  • vSphere 6.5 is supported with Horizon 7.
  • vSphere Virtual Machine Encryption (new in vSphere 6.5) is not supported with Horizon 7.
• Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR) operating systems 
  The following Windows MMR operating systems are supported:
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Server 2016 is a tech preview feature
• Windows registry keys for Flash Redirection 
  View administrators can set requireIECompatibility=true to enable Flash Redirection for Web sites that support HTML5 by default. This parameter is not required for the YouTube Web site. In certain situations, setting appMode=0 can improve performance, and setting appMode=1 can result in a better user experience.

Resolved Issues:

• View Administrator displays the error "Unable to query the replication state of the server" regarding the replication status of a Connection Server machine. This problem is a display issue that occurs with non-EN language Connection Server machines.
• The error message "No valid certificates were found on this smart card" appears on the Horizon Client for Windows, when you use a PIV smart card to authenticate to Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 R2 and above desktops that do not have middleware installed. This problem is resolved when you install Horizon Agent 7.0.2 in the remote desktops and enable Windows auto update to let Windows install the PIV smart card mini driver on both the Windows client and Horizon agent.
• An error message appears when you run an executable (.exe) file that requires the administrator privilege from a network share folder on a physical workstation or virtual machine that has VMware View Persona Management version 6.2 installed.
• The Horizon Administrator Web page shows a page cannot be displayed error if you install View Connection Server 7.0.1 with the FIPS mode enabled on any drive other than the C drive.
• Windows 10 desktops that have Horizon 7.0 installed with View Persona Manager and some applications crash with a Blue Screen of Death.
• Windows Media MMR does not work on Windows 10 desktops.
• View Composer performs unsealed LDAP searches.
• In Horizon Administrator, when you add an instant-clone domain administrator and then create an instant-clone desktop pool, some virtual machines in the instant-clone desktop pool might fail to clone.
• In a Microsoft Network Load Balancer environment, an authentication error occurs when you use VMware Identity Manager to launch a remote desktop.
• Can not view and select vGPU enabled virtual machines while creating a desktop pool with the NVIDIA GRID option selected in the 3D Renderer setting.