High performance thin client built on enterprise-class SUSE Linux for the most demanding virtual desktop environments

But, based on the very robust and easy to use SLED plattform, Wyse has extended its offering of Linux clients. Beside the already available C50LE and R50L, we now have the choice to select three more models.
The Z50S and Z50D are both looking the same, but the S and D suffix indicate a different processor in the unit. The Z50S is driven by an AMD 1.5 GHz single core processor, whereas the Z50D is running with a AMD 1.6GHz dual core one. This makes these two units really fast, which is of couse benefitial for all user who need multimedia applications running.
The third unit is called X50M. This is the first Linux based mobile client Wyse has ever released. Following the success of the WES and WES7 based mobile clients, Wyse has decided to enrich the world with a Linux based one.
Such a mobile device can be used in various spaces like medical care (hospitals), schools, warehouses but also for you people driving or flying around and do not want to loose any data, when the device gets stolen.

Wow, what a long time since I have written an article here. But at the end of last year I was very busy and did not find the time, although Wyse has released quite new interesting stuff. But as this is now available for some time, I will concentrate on the new and upcoming stuff.

Wyse is First to Deliver Microsoft RemoteFX Certified Desktop and Mobile Thin Clients

This announcement is very significant, in that Wyse is the first and only company to reach this elite level of thin client certification with Microsoft. The Wyse ThinOS-based R10L, and Windows Embedded Standard-based R90L7, Z90S7, Z90D7, X90c7, and X90m7 desktop and mobile thinclients have undergone an extensive series of rigorous tests, defined and audited by Microsoft,that confirm that these products are all highly suited to deliver RemoteFX applications.
RemoteFX, which consists of a number of enhancements to Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), is designed to deliver a rich user experience with support of enhanced multimedia and 3D graphics applications. RemoteFX delivers a rich VDI user experience by providing a 3D virtual adapter, intelligent codecs, and the ability to redirect USB devices in virtual machines. It also enables shared encryption, authentication, management, and device support.

Today Wyse has released a new HAgent for their WES2009 and WES7 based units like C-, R-, Z- or X-class. This Hagent version (WES2009 is 5.1.1.59 and WES7 is 6.0.0.32) is fixing some crashing issues when connecting to the WDM server. In detail:
- Crashed occurs while communicating via HTTPS and root CA is pushed to thin client.
- and when DNS SRV records are longer than 25 characters.

You can download the new HAgent directly from the Wyse website for free.

Today I have released the new version of the Configuration Generator. This release has the first shot of the Wyse Enhanced Ubuntu Linux parameter set. I have also updated some WTOS and SUSE parameters and embedded Base-64 encryption for the Linux passwords which are now used on all new Linux builds.

Currently there are 2 known issues:
- the Printing section is missing due to the lack of communication of Wyse
- if you open a wlx.ini which contains base-64 encrypted password, the passwords will not be read in.

Yours
ConfGen

Hi all,

it has been a while since I posted the last article but I was very busy doing my regular job on the one hand site (yes, there is a life beside Technicalhelp) and on the other site I was on holiday in nice and warm Florida.

This week and the weeks before Wyse announced a whole bunch of new products I would like to let you know about.

Last week Wyse finally released the Wyse Configuration Manager which was formally known under the project name "Pyramid". For those of you who haven't heard anything about it, check my article "News from the Cebit". In short words, WCM is a tool which can create or pull WES7 configs, put these on a central server and push them to all or some WES7 units. The logic behind this is very similar to what we know from WTOS and Linux based clients today. But this is the first time you can do that for a Windows 7 based Thin Client. Very cool stuff for version 1.0 but there is always room for improvement. Check it out yourself and download it for free on Wyse.com.

This week the Citrix Synergy^TM takes place and Wyse has announced two new Thin Clients there. The first one is called T50 and is positioned as a low entry, easy to manage and fast to boot client. This little puppy is ARM v7 based and runs Ubuntu Linux. Wyse states...

Hi fellow monkeys,

last week the world biggest computer show in the world took place in Hannover, Germany. Of course I was there and spend some time at the Wyse booth to see if they are presenting some new stuff. And surprisingly they did.
Just some few weeks after the last big event, Cisco Live, Wyse again showed some new stuff. Like on the Cisco Live, they presented their well known clients, along with the new Z90D7 and Project Pyramid. But they have also present two great new pieces of their growing portfolio.

The first one was related to WTOS. As you all know, this is really my favorite OS. Its simplicity, size, speed and rich set of features is really impressive. Now Wyse is going to further enhance this superb OS. On their booth they presented a tech preview of a RemoteFX integration. This enables WTOS to work with the new Windows 2008 R2 SP1 enhancement and present multimedia content like videos or even Aero in an impressive way. Along with this new feature, WTOS will be able

Hi all,

this week I was in London at the Cisco Live show and Wyse also had a booth there. Due to the recent announcement that Wyse and Cisco are now working close together to push the Cisco VXI solution, Wyse took the chance and position themself in mainly network related show.

They took the chance and presented two new products during this week. The first is a complete and extremly powerful new hardware class, called Z-class. The second is a software solution to easily push and pull configurations to and from WES7 clients. This software is currently not released and was just demoed but will be available later this quarter and is currently named "Project Pyramid".

But first back to the hardware release. The Z-class is the most powerful Thin Client hardware that was ever released by any TC vendor. It will be available as a Single Core or Dual Core unit with up the 1.6 GHz. Here are some technical details:

AMD G-T52R 1.5GHz Processor with AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 Graphics

Or

Dual core AMD G-T56N 1.6 GHz Processor with AMD Radeon™ HD 6310 Graphics

Wyse is beginning this new decade with the release of the first maintenance release of WTOS 7.
They have included again a lot of new features and, of course, some bugfixes.
Currently this version is only available through Wyse System Engineers but will be posted on the Maintenance webseite later.
Here is a list of new features in this release:

That Wyse is working closely with Citrix is not a real big news. But with the release of XenDesktop 5, Wyse managed to put a small piece of software on the XD5 install medium.

This small piece of software is called Wyse Xenith Manager. As you all know Wyse has released the Xenith unit mid last year and from there on it was a huge success as the Xenith is the only Non-Windows based client which is HDX ready.
The Xenith Manager now is really not a big management tool as you do not need this at all for Xenith. All you really need to make your live easy, are some DHCP option tags and optional a small configuration file.
Typically this configuration file (xen.ini) and the Xenith firmware is placed on a

Yesterday Wyse released the new version 3.6 of its provisoning software called WSM. This new version has enhancements in several parts of the product and is interesting for small and large customers.
A lot of features that have been requested by customers over the time have been added now.
Here is a list of all features with some explanations in brackets:

• Changes to sites and templates
   – Allow multiple server groups / device groups / os images per template
   – Preserve items added at linked site
   – Locally managed sites
• Enhanced Overview / Dashboard page