VMware View Update 5.1.1 Released

On August 16th VMware made available Update 5.1.1 for VMware View. VMware View 5.1.1 is a maintenance release that resolves some known issues in the previous releases.

From the View 5.1.1 Release Notes these are the highlighted Resolved Issues:

View Administrator

• When the number of View entities managed by one group of View Connection Server instances exceeded 10,000, View Administrator had intermittent problems displaying desktop pools, desktops, and user/group references. The intermittent display problems caused many administrative operations to fail. A View entity can be a desktop pool, desktop, or user/group reference.

View Persona Management

• View Persona Management failed to replicate a user profile that contained very large files to the remote profile repository. The incomplete replication could result in data loss or data corruption in the user profile.

User Profile Management In View

The following resolved issues concern desktop session management by View Agent and View Connection Server. In certain situations, View closed  sessions prematurely, affecting user profile synchronization. In View 5.1.1, View Agent and View Connection Server wait for user profile replication to be completed before closing desktop sessions.

• When a user logged off soon after adding a large amount of data to the user profile, View shut down the View desktop before the user profile had finished being replicated to the remote profile repository. The incomplete replication could result in data loss or data corruption in the user profile. This issue is resolved when PCoIP or RDP is used.
• If a user logged off from a View desktop and immediately logged in to a new desktop session within the same pool, user profile data that was created in the new session could not be saved. The user could also lose data that was created in the previous session. This issue applied to desktops running Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, or later Windows operating system releases

Check out the  VMware View 5.1.1 Release Notes for full details on the update.

Pete