On April 8th we released Automation Manager SR4. Below you'll find a list of the most important changes in this release. Please download the release notes from our support portal to read the full list of new features and enhancements.    New features: PowerShell 3.0. support: Automation Manager now fully supports Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and enables administrators to copy paste existing Powershell 3.0 scripts into a secure, efficient and controllable Module that can be delegated to virtually anybody within or outside of IT. Support for Windows Authentication when using Microsoft SQL Server: To support environments with high security requirements Automation Manager now support Windows Authentication when connecting to the Microsoft SQL ... READ MORE>>

RES HyperDrive is a secure, on-premises technology designed for today’s mobile workforce. Developed to address the expanding security requirements of your IT department, but meet the ease of use, cross-platform and simplicity requirements of a new generation of IT consumers, RES HyperDrive leverages your own data center or private cloud to provide rapid data access to users, regardless of location and device. Today, RES Software released a next milestone release of RES HyperDrive that contains great new value. Client Enhancements Non-caching Microsoft Windows client As of today, RES HyperDrive offers a non-caching client for Microsoft Windows, that is ideal remote desktops and/or virtual desktops. With this new client in place, people can access their data from any type of ... READ MORE>>

This is already part 3 of the pinning series and is considered as an addition to part 1 and part 2 about pinning to the Microsoft Windows Start Menu and Taskbar. The article was born to a recent question we are getting at support and newly introduced technologies made a solution to this possible. A problem system administrators often run into is how to put multiple websites to the Taskbar and / or Start Menu, and if possible use a different icon for the webpage instead of the standard Internet Explorer icon when using a Microsoft Windows 7 based operating system. Several options have been tried, from a RES Workspace Manager managed Internet Explorer with custom icons combined with URL's ... READ MORE>>

Introduction:   Lately we have been receiving significantly more calls regarding Microsoft's System Center Configuration Manager software and how this product can be used to stream virtual applications to clients. Basically the challenge we notice some of our customers are facing, is how they can benefit from a scalable, location based distribution method (like SCCM) while at the same time maintaining application manageability with RES Workspace Manager.   The challenge:   When using both the SCCM and App-V on the same workstation, and using RES Workspace Manager on top of this, things can get complicated. What we have learned is that there is a lot of confusion out there on which client is actually doing the launch of the App-V ... READ MORE>>

If you've read the great 'VDI Smackdown' paper by PQR you might notice that RES Automation Manager is mentioned as one of the solutions suited in a virtual desktop infrastructure. I would like to explain one of the many features of the solution that solve a specific problem. Snapshot technology is a great solution for managing virtual computer environments as it makes it very easy to save computers states. Multiple snapshots can be saved for a single computer and snapshot technology is commonly used to create backups before making changes or create a 'catalog' of different computing states. There are however some challenges with this dynamic way of managing computing states. The biggest is that traditional configuration management tools ... READ MORE>>