The last couple of weeks some of the flings applicable for Horizon View and that I had in my VMUG presentation have been updated. The Horizon Toolbox 2 has been updated so it now supports console access for vCenter 6.0u2 and 6.5 + it now supports horizon 7.1. The Horizon OS Optimization Tool got several bugfixes.

Recent change for the Horizon Toolbox 2:

2017-Mar-17 Horizon Toolbox 2.1.3

New Features

Support new Horizon version(7.1)

Support new VCenter version(VC6.5 and 6.0u2a) in Console Access feature

Recent changelog for the OSOT:

April 27, 2017 b1090b

Issue Fix: “the node to be removed is not a child of this node” when opitimize windows 10 template

Issue Fix: System.NullReferenceException occurs if the network can’t reach any of the public template repository.

Template Update (Windows 7/8/8.1): Correct the Menu Show Delay type to REG_SZ in item “Reduce Menu Show Delay”

April 18, 2017

Issue fixed

Some optimization items are skipped mistakenly. For example, Remote Apps in Windows 10 template. This is caused by a recent change in Conditional Check feature.



April 17, 2017 b1088

Feature

Conditional Check: you can specify on what condition an optimization should be run. For example, when a specific registry key match certain value.



Template

“Change Explorer Default View” has been changed to unselected by default, because of conflict to UEM. Details: it causes the locations in “user files” (desktop, downloads, favorites, music, videos , Documents, Pictures) folder is to the local drive c:\Users\Username, its Should be \\server\folder_redirection\%username% when use UEM folder redirection.



Enhancements

Public Templates tab: click template on the list is very slow, which should not be Default public template repository URL updated Loading public template repository takes too long



Issue Fix

Field validation: prevent user from creating template with blank name

