Category: General

All available mobile Thin Clients from Dell Wyses 7000 series are going EOL by end of January 2016.

Models affected are 7452-X50M, 7492-X90M7, 7492-X90M7P and 7202-X00M.

You can still order them but you should hurry if you need more.

Only a few week after the big ThinOS 8.1 release, Dell has published a hotfix release. The version number is 8.1_029 and contains a ton of fixes and improvements.

One of the biggest improvements is the support for Netscaler 11. Also quite valuable is the new option to disable WLAN only if Ethernet connection is up.

I will update ConfGen ASAP and publish an update on this site.

For those of you who are using a Non-US MUI, the latest version of vWorkspace now offers localized connectors.

With version 8.6.1 of vWorkspace Dell has translated the connector to several languages like French, German, Spanish or traditional Chinese.

You will also find performance improvements with adaptive graphics and anonymous logon, improved support for multi-tenancy and more.

vWorkspace is also available for trials on Microsoft Azure.

Dell presented its latest addition to their Thin Client portfolio. It is the second All-in-One with a bigger display and a different audience.

The new Dell Wyse 5050 is a combination of the Dell-Display P2414H with 23.6″ in size and the Wyse 5030 (aka P25). It is the first time that you get a nearly 24″ monitor with an in-build Teradici chipset to easily connect to a VMware Horizon View environment with a great performance. Everyone who has worked with the 5030 in the past, knows about its capabilties as a fast and reliable Zero Client.
The client is equipped with six USB ports, whereof 4 are build at the site of the client to be easily reachable. The display supports Full-HD. The stand is detachable and can be rotated.
The 5050 will become available in the US in December, following in other regions in 2016.

You can manage the client with Wyse Device Manager or Teradici’s own solution. In the last weeks Teradici changed its licensing model of this management software, which is now not longer free of charge.

Along with the new 5050, Dell announced an upcoming update of its cloud-based management soltion Cloud Client Manager. Version 9 brings support for iOS 9, Windows 10 and delegated control.

With the integration of Wyse into Dell, the names of the Thin Clients have been changed. If you ever wondered what a 3010, a 5040 or 7030 is, feel free to use this table.

Dell will equip all new WE8S device with 32GB flash instead of 16GB.

Due to the bigger image size this step is more than necessary in my opinion. In my projects I’ve always issues with the small flash size and even used a SSD instead of flash.

The new flash module is not only bigger but also a lot faster as Dell is using SATA3 MLC modules now.

Today Dell has released the new version of their management solution called Wyse Device Manager (WDM). This version is the first step to a complete new look of WDM. Dell has included a new webinterface as a preview.

But there are a lot more feature that came into this build version. Most interesting is the new option to push configurations to Linux via WCM (Wyse Configuration Manager).

I am really curious about the next release when hopefully all the preview and limited features are finalized.

Key features of this release include:

• Wyse Configuration Manager (WCM) for SUSE Linux
  • Dell Wyse Configuration Manager (WCM) for SUSE Linux can now be launched from WDM and you can create and apply configuration files to thin client devices running SUSE Linux operating systems. This feature requires a separate add-on.
• Profile Manager for SUSE Linux
  • Profile Manager enables you to deploy a predefined configuration on a specified group of devices. These configurations are those that you create using WCM and save them in a specified repository.
• WDM Web UI Support (Preview Only)
  • Now you can access your devices via supported browsers with the new, sleek WDM Web UI. Note: Current version of Web UI is view only. Next MR will have major workflows working in Web UI.
• WDM API
  • WDM 5.5 Introduces new API option for providing expandability and customizations via 3rd party integration
• Windows 10 Support
  • WDM 5.5 supports all of your Wyse Windows 10 IoT Enterprise thin client devices.
• Wyse Configuration Manager (WCM) for Windows 10 (Preview Only)
  • WCM supports Windows 10 IoT thin clients with limited functionality.
• Merlin Imaging Support for devices having 60 GB Hard Disk
  • WDM 5.5 supports imaging of devices with hard drive capacities over 60GB. In the WDM GUI you can find the Legacy platform name mapping in the Hardware info asset information tab.
• Licensing Behavior Change
  • If the devices discovered or added manually are more than the available licenses available in the WDM server then the devices will be listed in the Unmanaged Devices section.
• Rebranding/Renaming of TCs
  • WDM 5.5 supports the Wyse thin client rebranded model names. In the WDM GUI you can find the legacy platform name mapping in the Hardware info asset information tab.

Dell has announced enhancements for Windows Embedded 8 thin clients. The new Maintenance Release 1 includes the latest client protocols from Citrix, VMware, and vWorkspace, security patches, and driver updates.
Downloads will be available shortly here

Dell is announcing the end of engineering support for the following thin client models:
V10LE
C10LE
R10L
Xenith
Xenith Pro

The Wyse ThinOS 8.2 MR release, scheduled for Q2 CY2016 will be the final firmware release, at which point no further engineering activities are planned for these devices.
Basic hardware and software support will still be provided for these products to any customers with outstanding service contracts. However, no additional service contracts or maintenance support contracts will be sold to these EOL products.