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Features & Enhancements

This section in release notes, provides the details of new features and enhancements in HyWorks v3.3-GA Hotfix-4 release.

Enhancements in HyWorks Controller

Support to preserve networks in Azure Desktop VM on Recompose and Recreation

For dynamically provisioned desktops, recompose or recreate operation will reattach network object which in turn will help in attaining the same network configurations.

Till date this feature was supported with VMware and Nutanix desktop providers only.

Note

  • After enabling Network Preserve in desktop pool, Gold master or source VM can not be changed.

Support for MSIX App Attach

MSIX is a Windows app package format that provides a modern packaging experience to all Windows apps, where IT administrator can keep the application packages separate from session host servers and attach those applications on-demand. In HyWorks, following capabilities are added:

  1. Publishing packaged applications from HyWorks Management Console
  2. Session host server v3.3.0.13281
    1. Capabilities to support packaged applications
    2. HyShell to support packages applications on access of shared hosted desktops

Benefits:

  1. No need to install applications on all session host servers
  2. Assign applications to users on the fly
  3. No need to have pre-installed application template servers
  4. Use vanilla images and attach packages applications
  5. With installed applications, only those users will have access who are assigned with applications.

Platform Support:

References:

Support to encrypt Azure Desktop VM Disk

For security purpose now Azure VM disks can be encrypted.

Encryption option is provided at the time of deployment of new desktop pools (shared hosted desktops or dedicated virtual desktops) or on recompose.

  • Encryption using Platform Managed Key: By default, managed disks use platform-managed encryption keys. All managed disks, snapshots, images, and data written to existing managed disks are automatically encrypted-at-rest with platform-managed keys.

  • Encryption using Customer Managed Key: Manage encryption at the level of each managed disk, with customer's own keys.

  • Azure Disk Encryption: With Azure disk encryption, Azure uses Server Side Encryption (SSE) with Platform Managed Key (PMK) and Azure disk encryption (ADE) both. For ADE , on Windows platform Bitlocker used and on linux platform crypto used.

HyWorks Session Host Server v3.3.0.13281

Support for MSIX App Attach

The release of HyWorks Session Host Server is having all required support for MSIX App Attach.