As anticipated in my previous posts, version 2406 of Omnissa’s EUC products (the company that took over VMware’s EUC products) has been released. New versions of the following are present:

• App Volumes
• Horizon
• Unified Access Gateway
• Dynamic Environment Manager

In the next posts I present some of the most interesting new features that are present in these new releases.

Let’s start with App Volumes and talk about:

• Volumes App for Persistent Desktop
• Extending the App Volumes solution to other platforms
• Assign different versions of the same application to a user

Volumes App for Persistent Desktop

• The solution until the version before 2406 was only available for non-persistent desktops (Instant Clone)
• From the 2406 it is also possible to use it with persistent desktops

The main difference is present in the installation of the agent where it is asked on which type of desktop we are installing the App Volumes agent

In its nature of profile management, the use of App Volumes on a persistent machine is only possible with App Stacks and not with Writable Volumes

Extending the App Volumes solution to other platforms

The ability to use App Volumes with VDI is not only of Horizon infrastructure, from version 2406 it is possible to use with Windows 365 and with Amazon WorkSpaces

Assign different versions of the same application to a user

Leveraging Apps on Demand, end users can now select from multiple packages of an application at launch, providing flexibility to try out new versions or launch specific ones

Other assignment options: “Marker,” and “Package,”, now we are the “Multiple,” option enhancing application management and deployment flexibility.