The ACE 2 public beta started this week. Although much of the attention was focused on Pocket ACE, there’s actually quite a bit of new functionality in this long-awaited release. Warren Ponder from the VMware desktop team gives his perspective:
I wanted to take a few seconds and mention the ACE 2.0 Beta is
now live. Everyone has been hard at work getting this release ready. All the
hard work and feedback from customers is really starting to payoff.Existing customers and potential new customers have a ton of new
features and enhancements to look forward too. Here are my top three favorites.
ACE Management Server Appliance – The ACE Management
server appliance is a true virtual appliance. It comes packaged as a virtual
machine, with the OS and management server pre-installed and ready to go. This
approach greatly reduces the time to deployment in your environment. No OS or
applications to install. Simply power on, configure through the web based
management interface and your done.Pocket ACE – With Pocket ACE you can now deploy ACE’s to a
USB flash stick using a simple wizard. Once distributed, an ACE user simply
plugs their USB stick into any available system to access their ACE
instance.ACE Management Server Help Desk – The new Help Desk
feature allows users to submit problems for common issues such as lost passwords
and expired ACE instances. Using this allows an administrator or help desk to
quickly respond to an issue a user might be having that is preventing them from
working.There are a lot of other new features a well, including expanded
Linux distributions supported as guests, and Linux being supported as a host.
There is also the ability now to join Windows clients to a domain remotely over
a secure VPN connecting and much, much more.We also wanted to thank the customers that have been testing the
beta already and providing us extremely valuable feedback so far. We would like
to invite everyone interested to come join the beta, participate in
the ACE 2.0 beta forums, and give your feedback and suggestions.Warren Ponder
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Enterprise Desktop Products and Solutions
VMware
