Virtual Desktop Service – v6.0 Release Notes

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VDS 6.0 hotfix: Friday April 16th, 2021

Components: 6.0 Virtual Desktop Service
When: Friday April 16th, 2021 at 10pm – 11pm Eastern
Impact: Access to desktops and application services for End Users will remain uninterrupted. Access to Virtual Desktop Service will remain available.

Virtual Desktop Service

Resolve an issue with automated certificate creation that arose after last night’s update that improved automated certificate management

VDS 6.0 release: Thursday April 15, 2021

Components: 6.0 Virtual Desktop Service
When: Thursday April 15th, 2021 at 10pm – 11pm Eastern
Impact: Access to desktops and application services for End Users will remain uninterrupted. Access to Virtual Desktop Service will remain available.

Virtual Desktop Service

Enhancements to the Cloud Insights integration:
- Frames Skipped – Insufficient Network Resources
- Frames Skipped – Insufficient Client Resources
- Frame Skipped – Insufficient Server Resources
- OS Disk – Read Bytes
- OS Disk – Write Bytes
- OS Disk – Read Bytes/second
- OS Disk – Write Bytes/second
Update to task history in the Deployments module – improved handling of task history
Bug fix for an issue where an Azure Backup couldn’t be restored to CWMGR1 from a disk in a subset of scenarios
Bug fix for an issue where certificates weren’t automatically being updated and created
Bug fix for an issue where a stopped deployment didn’t start quickly enough
Update to the State drop-down list when creating a Workspace – remove the item “National” from the list
Additional updates to reflect NetApp branding

VDS 6.0 hotfix: Wednesday April 7th, 2021

Components: 6.0 Virtual Desktop Service
When: Wednesday April 7th, 2021 at 10pm – 11pm Eastern
Impact: Access to desktops and application services for End Users will remain uninterrupted. Access to Virtual Desktop Service will remain available.

Virtual Desktop Service

Due to increasingly variable response times from Azure, we are increasing the amount of time we wait for a response when entering Azure credentials during the deployment wizard.

VDS 6.0 release: Thursday April 1, 2021

Components: 6.0 Virtual Desktop Service
When: Thursday April 1st, 2021 at 10pm – 11pm Eastern
Impact: Access to desktops and application services for End Users will remain uninterrupted. Access to Virtual Desktop Service will remain available.

Virtual Desktop Service

Updates to the NetApp Cloud Insights integration – new streaming data points:
- NVIDIA GPU performance data
- Round Trip Time
- User Input Delay
Update the Connect to Server function to allow administrative connections to VMs even when VMs are set to disallow connections from end users
API enhancements to enabled theming & branding in a subsequent release
Improved visibility of the actions menu available in HTML5 connections via Connect to Server or RDS user sessions via HTML5
Increase the QTY of characters supported in the name of an activity Scripted Events
Updated Provisioning Collections OS choices by type
- For WVD and Windows 10, use the VDI collection type to ensure the Windows 10 OS is present
- For a Windows Server OS, use the Shared collection type
Assorted proactive security and performance enhancements

VDS 6.0 release

Components: 6.0 Virtual Desktop Service
When: Date to be announced soon
Impact: Access to desktops and application services for End Users will remain uninterrupted. Access to Virtual Desktop Service will remain available.

Virtual Desktop Service

The primary function of this update is to prepare deployments to leverage the VDS v6 UI in the future via update the version of .NET installed from 4.7.2 to 4.8.0
Support for future deployment automation enhancements in GCP
Support for Windows Server 2019 in GCP
Minor Command Center functional updates
Support for Windows Server 2019 and Office 2019 SPLA license keys

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