Dell Wyse Gives Citrix Workspace App Preferred Status with ThinOS 9
… should be aware as the company shifts to the cloud model of issuing cumulative updates (CUs).
“This is the first LTSR since we transitioned to the Citrix Workspace app, and we cannot wait to see customers migrate from Citrix Receiver 4.9 LTSR to this release,” Agarwal noted.
Among many new features in Citrix Workspace app LTSR 1912, the update provides app protection against keylogging and screen capturing, improved graphics with DPI enhancement, added Microsoft Teams support and single sign-on with Citrix Gateway (the former NetScaler Unified Gateway).
Dell’s Waibel acknowledged that Wyse ThinOS 8.6, released early last year, provided a less-than-optimal environment when used with Citrix Workspace app. Likely, that would become more pronounced with the LTSR 1912 release.
“This was done purposely to accelerate the delivery of the Thin OS 9 client to our Citrix population that is out there because we wanted to make sure that we gave them a client as soon as we possibly could,” Waibel said, in regard to the focus on Citrix with the initial release. “It’s a great advancement over what we had in our Thin OS 8.6 support for Citrix Receiver. This particular release guarantees us to provide that optimal user experience by running Citrix Workspace app.”
Explaining why ThinOS 8.6 didn’t work as well with Citrix Workspace app, Waibel noted when Dell released that update last year, the company had leveraged Citrix source code into the Wyse operating system. As Citrix ramped up with more frequent modifications to the Citrix Receiver client, ThinOS was still working with the older source code.
“Now with Thin OS 9, we’ve enhanced our operating system so that we actually offer Citrix Workspace app just by packaging and embedding the Citrix public binaries into our client devices,” Waibel explained. “This allows us to deliver a more feature-rich Receiver inside of the client that is basically supportive of enhanced capabilities to support all of the features that Citrix has within the Citrix Workspace app. That was a big advancement for us, because it allowed us to do things that we weren’t capable of doing with ThinOS 8.6, such as browser content redirection and Enlightened Data Transport (EDT).”
ThinOS 9.0 works with all four Wyse models, which include Wyse 3040 and 5070 desktops, as well as the company’s new ThinOS 5470 mobile laptop and 24-inch All-in-One systems.
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