OVD Release Notes 3.4.2 Summary

About Inuvika OVD 3.4.2

We are excited to announce the latest minor release of Inuvika OVD Enterprise 3.4.2, which includes several new features and enhancements to support large installations and generally enhance the administration and end-user experience. We hope our customers and their end-users will enjoy these new features.

What's new in 3.4.2

This release is a minor patch fix release to replace 3.4.1 that resolves a small number of issues making it difficult for customers to upgrade, and therefore includes all previous 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 enhancements and features that make our software more scalable, easier to deploy and manage.

Provisioning Improvements

We have made substantial improvements to the provisioning functionality added in 3.4.0. Numerous enhancements have been made to the provisioning feature, resulting in improved performance and increased stability.

You can now have provisioned VMs that get deleted after logoff, added the ability to put VMs to sleep instead of destroying them outside of working hours (dependent on platform used) plus other new functionality to perform tasks like aborting failed provisioning tasks without having to do this via the terminal.

There is also a wide range of new help functionality to assist you with configuring provisioning in your environment to ensure fields are filled in appropriately in order for it to work as intended.

Server Scripts

A new feature has been added that lets you perform scripts at power on or power off, including the templated scripts to perform actions like SYSPREP at first boot for provisioned virtual machines.

OVD Version in the Admin Console

You can now see the version of OVD components installed on each server that makes up your environment from the administration console servers tab at a glance.

Multi-monitor selection via the EDC

We have added a new feature into the Magic Toolbar in the Enterprise Desktop Client that allows you to choose the number of screens that will be used in Fullscreen Mode. This can be very useful where a user wishes to retain, for example, a third screen for local apps whilst using screens one and two for OVD.

E-mail as Username

We have added the ability for users to login to OVD using their registered email address, either defined by the administrator or pulled from your directory service. This is especially useful for MSPs who let users log in to the platform via email for consistency with other services such as Microsoft 365.

Aprimoramentos na limitação da autenticação

Esse recurso agora está ativado por padrão, fornecendo proteção imediata contra ataques de login de força bruta em seu ambiente OVD.

AD Integration Improvements

We have enhanced the Active Directory integration testing process to better handle empty fields and provide more meaningful feedback during configuration.

Graphics Improvements

This release includes fixes for graphics-related issues, particularly addressing glitches in application mode that could occur when maximizing windows that were not in the foreground.

Licensing Improvements

Licensing is moving to our online platform, which will allow you to automatically license your OVD installation via an online licensing portal, removing the need for physical licensing files. This will also make SPLA reporting for our MSP partners much simpler with automatic submission of end-of-month concurrent user counts. Air-gapped environments are also supported through a manual metadata file exchange process.

TOTP Authenticators

The default value for Inuvika Authenticator Only has changed. Previously, it defaulted to restricting MFA to the 'Inuvika Authenticator Only'. The new default allows all standard TOTP authenticators.

OVD Enterprise Secure Gateway

A new tool is available at https://pemtool.inuvika.com/ to help convert TLS certificates into the required format for use with the OVD Enterprise Secure Gateway.

A simpler way to update

We have added a new update functionality to the OVD One Touch Installer. You can access this via the 'Utilities' menu. This removes the need to run manual steps to upgrade your OVD servers. Please note however that you must run the update utility per server - it does not support the ability to update multiple servers from a single instance of the tool at this moment in time.

A reminder of what was new in 3.4

Provisionamento

We have added the ability to integrate your OVD Session Manager directly with your choice of virtualization platform. This can be on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid, utilizing both simple hypervisors such as Proxmox, Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, and Microsoft Hyper-V, as well as cloud providers such as Zadara, OpenStack, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon AWS.

This new functionality allows you to deploy both shared and dedicated OVD Application Server instances that run either Windows 10/11, Windows Server, or a Linux Server based operating system (Ubuntu 22.04 / RHEL8) from a gold master template, or multiple templates curated for different use cases. You can spin up and spin down on demand and also have the ability to set a working hours schedule where required.

The underlying technology used is Terraform. So, as long as the platform you wish to integrate has a Terraform Provider (see https://registry.terraform.io/browse/providers to search for yours), it can be added.

Monitoramento

A new monitoring feature has been added, allowing you to connect the OVD Administration Console directly to a monitoring platform supporting InfluxDB, such as Grafana. Additionally, you can log to a file stored on the OVD Session Manager, which allows you to use a log collector from your chosen monitoring platform to collect and ingest the logs.

Alterações nos avisos de serviço

If your Session Manager is in Maintenance Mode, users will now automatically receive a Maintenance Mode message via the Service Notices function. This message is displayed in addition to any existing Service Notices that are already configured.

Botão Atualizar para aplicativos e registros

Adicionamos um botão de atualização que permite consultar os servidores de aplicativos do OVD sob demanda para ver se há aplicativos disponíveis. O mesmo botão também está presente na página Informações e registros do servidor, permitindo que você também os atualize sob demanda.

Aprimoramentos no console de administração do OVD

There are several changes in the Administration Console, both cosmetic and functional.

Dark Mode is now supported via a new theme switcher. It will follow your system preferences or can be manually switched to Light Mode or Dark Mode.

We have made numerous terminology changes in the Administration Console and improved the descriptions of various settings throughout. Additionally, there is a description explaining what the settings on each page do to further help administrators navigate.

Alterações em multilocatários

A visualização global foi removida nesta versão. Ela foi substituída por novos menus suspensos para administradores globais ou multilocatários em várias páginas para permitir que eles filtrem as informações exibidas por locatário.

Aplicação de licenças de software

Foram feitas alterações na funcionalidade de licenciamento de software no OVD que agora permitem que você imponha um limite de licença para aplicativos fornecidos via OVD. Isso permite que você permaneça em conformidade com as políticas de licenciamento em que não há limites de usuário definidos e o licenciamento é feito com base na confiança. Isso também se aplica aos parceiros MSP/CSP que desejam garantir que os limites de licença não sejam violados para aplicativos fornecidos por meio de suas plataformas DaaS.

Aviso de fim de suporte

This version does not support Ubuntu 18.04, CentOS 7.x, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7. These platforms have either already reached or are imminently approaching their respective End of Life dates.

Recomendamos fazer a transição para o Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) ou para o Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 8 o mais rápido possível para aproveitar as futuras versões do OVD.

Coming soon in a later release of the 3.4 branch

Clipboard Improvements

The Enterprise Desktop Client, on all platforms, will soon support the ability to copy and paste files, as well as rich-text formatted content such as Excel spreadsheet data, images, and HTML code between the client machine and their OVD session.

Fabulatech License Reporting Enhancements

We are adding the new linux-based Fabulatech Statserver which is used for our SPLA customers to report on usage of server-side components required for the OVD Premium Device Redirection. This will also report into MyInuvika, our online licensing platform, removing the need for manual usage reports to be performed at the beginning of each month.

OVD 3.4.2 Changelog

Correções de bugs

• IVD-5472 SMID can be replaced during migration
• IVD-5477 User with assigned server can not start a desktop session without publications
• IVD-5480 Database migration issue from 3.3.2 to 3.4.1

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