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We are officially announcing the End-of-Life of our Quick Launch feature effective January 5, 2023.
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Ability for users to automatically enable sound, microphone, and webcam via Preferences.
Ability to hide the Frame Status Bar when in full-screen mode with Frame App. This feature can be enabled by setting the following Advanced Terminal Argument (either within Dashboard > Settings > Session > Advanced Options or Dashboard > Launchpads > Session Settings > Advanced Options).
Advanced Terminal Argument: hideStatusBarOnFullscreen
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We are announcing the following change to our Data Availability policy for the following Account Analytics data (Dashboard > Analytics):
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Reverted to CEF version 100.
Issue where session performance degradation may occur in certain configurations.
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Removed Quick Publish feature for Persistent Desktop Accounts as setting does not impact publish behavior.
Removed Storage Providers option from the User Profile menu as Frame Cloud Storage Connectors are end-of-life.
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Issue where attempts to resume an FRP8 session may freeze while “Allocating resources”.
Issue where Frame printing may fail on Accounts deployed on private networks due to CORS policy change introduced with Chrome/Chromium version 104.
Additional reliability fixes.
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Ability for admins to Close All Sessions within Dashboard > Status > Active Sessions.
Support for .ico files for custom application icons.
Show error message when loading an Analytics page times out.
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Ability to clone Sandbox or Utility Server from a selected Backup to destination Accounts.
Renamed Machine Image Name to Master Image Name and moved field and value from Summary page to the Sandbox and Utility Server pages for Accounts created with BYO Image.
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Tech Preview Feature to automatically refresh video stream (FRP8 only, does not apply to FRP7) when a specified packet loss rate threshold is exceeded that could result in a frozen session and/or visual artifacting. Feature can be enabled via the Advanced Terminal Argument:
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[AHV] Ability to clone Persistent Desktops from one Account to another. Accounts can be deployed on different Cloud Accounts (AHV Clusters).
Ability for administrators to select whether times within Frame Console are displayed in UTC or their local time zone. Exception is that times within Analytics will always be shown in UTC and time zones within Capacity will remain configurable. Administrators will be able to configure this setting within Profile > Preferences > Time Display.
Deployment of the Nutanix Frame Agent 22-07-26 Release was previously halted after bugs were identified in customers’ Early Adopter Accounts. This release contains all the changes included with the 22-07-26 Release along with additional reliability fixes. This is reflected in the release notes below.
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tcp/4503-4509 is allowed within Windows Defender Firewall (in addition to udp/4503-4509) for FRP8 support.Added:
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New Help menu when starting Frame App via command line with --help argument. Displays all available command line arguments.
Option for users to configure time (in seconds) in which Esc key must be pressed in order to exit full-screen mode (configurable via Preferences menu or command line).
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Issue where Disk Size within Dashboard > Sandbox is not properly updated after a Sandbox clone operation.
Issue where Quick Launch Launchpad fails to load, resulting in a white screen.
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Ability to share and revoke Shared VPCs from one GCP cloud account to another GCP cloud account, under Cloud Services at a Customer or Organization level (requires a Shared VPC to be configured in GCP Console).
Frame Admin API endpoint to unassign an assigned persistent desktop.
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Show template image name used to create Account Sandbox within Dashboard > Summary > Account Details for customers using bring your own (BYO) image.
Ability to configure a Scheduled Backup Interval for any backup within Frame up to 30 days.
Validation to prevent administrators from setting Machine Name Prefix to an empty string.
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Ensuring that inbound tcp/4503-4509 is allowed within Windows Defender Firewall (in addition to udp/4503-4509) for FRP8 support.
Ability to increase Sysprep timeout within Frame Guest Agent (FGA) Playbook.
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Dedicated columns within Dashboard > Users > SAML2 Permissions for Conditions and Description.
Updated Nutanix Cloud Services Terms of Service (TOS).
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New column within Dashboard > Status > Servers shows assigned user for persistent desktop accounts.
Search feature within Dashboard > Status > Servers allows search by assigned user name and user email for persistent desktop accounts.
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Ability to set a custom description for each SAML2 permission rule.
New Admin API endpoint to configure Capacity settings for Persistent Accounts.
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Support for locking mouse back/forward buttons while in session to prevent users from accidentally exiting the session.
Support to disable locking mouse back/forward buttons via command line argument (disable-mouse-lock).
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Issue where new Frame PWA and Launch links are generating invalid links resulting in an “Invalid Kind” error message.
Additional reliability fixes.
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Revised the Test Publish feature where Test Pools are now regular Instance Pools that are flagged as Test within Dashboard > Capacity settings (instead of being created automatically when feature is enabled). If there are no Test Pools configured with capacity enabled, the feature will be automatically turned off for the Account.
For Accounts created with a BYO Image, the Base Image used to create the Account is now listed in Dashboard > Summary.
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Notification when a session is using a Frame Cloud Storage Connector (Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and/or OneDrive) as support for these connectors is approaching EOL. Please see this announcement for more details.
Notification when Windows Folder Redirection and/or Roaming Folder is configured that may prevent Frame Enterprise Profiles from mounting properly.
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Support for creation of multiple Instance Pools of the same instance type within the same Frame Account (non-persistent only) within Dashboard > Capacity settings.
Ability to assign a custom name for each Instance Pool within Dashboard > Capacity settings.
We are announcing the release of Frame App 6.11.1. This version is a hotfix to Frame App 6.11.0 and is currently only available for download from portal.nutanix.com.
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Added new column “Volume Type” under Volumes > Backups with possible values of Profile (Enterprise Profile backup) or Personal Drive (Personal Drive backup).
Expose the ability to list the installed software on a stateful (Sandbox, Utility Server, Persistent Desktop) workload VM for workload VMs on AHV, AWS, and Azure.
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Ability for Frame administrators to set the maximum size a user volume (e.g., enterprise profile disk, personal disk, and persistent desktops) can automatically grow to.
Administrators can clone a utility server to a destination Frame account, regardless of the base OS image for the destination Frame account Sandbox.
We are officially announcing the End-of-Life of the Frame cloud storage connectors for Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive.
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Frame Admin API List Active Sessions endpoint includes user_email in the response.
Ability for Frame administrators to select and delete multiple user volume disks (enterprise profiles and personal drives) and backups at the same time in the Volumes page.
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Windows Sysprep is now executed as the Windows SYSTEM user when publishing in a domain-joined Frame account.
Reduced the number of workload VM reboots required of production pool instances during the publish process.
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Administrators are warned that a change to the CIDR for a Frame-managed VPC/VNET will incur downtime since the VPC/VNET and workload VMs must be recreated with the new CIDR.
Administrators can now specify more than one Active Capacity day/time period for an instance pool.
Nutanix has established a Data Availability Policy for transaction data (Session, Usage, Disk Usage, Elasticity, User Activity, Session Reports, Audit Trail, Session Trail, Tasks, and Notifications) available from the Frame Console. Customers who need transaction data beyond the stated availability periods are advised either (a) to download the transaction data manually from Frame Console or (b) retrieve the data through an automated process using Frame Admin API on a monthly basis and save the transaction data in their own systems. Customers in need of transaction data older than what is available through Frame Console may make a one-time request to Nutanix Support for the archived historical data.
Frame VM Setup 1.5.0.0
Frame USB Driver 2.6.0
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New Frame Admin API endpoint for retrieving Launchpad information (/accounts/{account_id}/launchpads).
New Frame Admin API endpoint for onboarding an application (/accounts/{account_id}/onboard_app).
Frame Guest Agent (Server) 8.3.3 (Windows)
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Official support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Support for AWS IMDSv2 - new version of AWS metadata service
Retry the attachment of user volumes (personal drives and enterprise profile volumes) to workload VMs, if the volume attach request fails.
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Ability to backup and restore a Frame account’s Sandbox, Utility Server(s), Persistent Desktop(s), and volumes (enterprise profiles, personal drives) to second Frame account in the same infrastructure type (Bring Your Own AHV and Azure infrastructure for this release). For Azure, the backup Frame account must be in the same Azure cloud account as the Frame account (same or different region). For AHV, it must be in a different AHV Cloud Account. (Early Access)
Administrators can specify the maximum number of automated persistent desktop backups that are retained.
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Improved network statistics reports in management dashboard.
Additional logs available in Logs section of the management dashboard for easier troubleshooting.
Additional troubleshooting and monitoring tools in the Tools section of the management dashboard.
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Diagnostics and reporting in SGA environment for better troubleshooting of networking issues.
Improvements to reporting FGA error messages to Frame Terminal.
Improvements to Advanced USB support.
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Under Dashboard > Volumes, the created date/time and last used date/time fields are available in the list of volumes.
Administrator is not allowed to delete a production pool while another pool is being deleted.
Session ID and user name are added to the Session log dialog for each session.