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Scott and Terry talking about the Mitel Unified IP Telephony Client.  Which in my world means Sun Ray's and IP Telephony working seamlessly together.

FedTech: Mission-Driven Desktops: Navy Lab boosts computer performance through thin-client upgrade

Network World: Fluid desktops: Desktop virtualization promises easier management for IT and an optimal experience for users

Head over to Matthias Müller-Prove's blog and check out our latest collaborative effort with VMWare in the VDI Space and the link to download it.

Enjoy!

I get excited when I see emails like this on projects that I've worked on from the get go.  Two really engaging speakers talking about one exciting product.

Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 1:00PM EST Dear Craig Bender: Sun Microsystems and Mitel, two leaders in the field of IT and enterprise communications, have increased their momentum in delivering on their global partnership to provide an innovative and complete unified voice and ultra thin client desktop. The joint solution introduces a new paradigm in voice and data applications, and drives new levels of user simplicity, flexibility and integrated mobility. The benefits include cost reductions through high availability, reduced capital expenditures and desktop support, and lower power consumption. Scott and Terry will discuss the market reaction to the unique solution offerings surrounding the blended ultra thin architectures to create a thin desktop that provides instant access to both computing and voice applications. They will also discuss how enterprises can take advantage of this new and innovative approach to facilitate data center consolidation, reduce complexity in network management, and improve security. Tune in to this thought-provoking webcast to learn more about the newly available Mitel Unified IP Client for Sun Ray, the first truly unified communications ultra thin desktop in the industry. Sign up now to receive an email reminder on August 21st and view the launching of this webcast. If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to Sun_and_Mitel@Sun.com. Thank you, Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com/mitel Scott McNealy Chairman of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Terry Matthews Chairman of Mitel © 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. For information on Sun's trademarks see: http://www.sun.com/suntrademarks

Some gold by our Think Thin authors.

Updated Non-smartcard VDI scripts

First patch for Sun Virtual Desktop Connector

Fat Blokes New VirtualBox Buzz Blog

After a year in the making, a new version of the good old "usbdrived" is out. USB drive access on a Sun Ray is now looking better than ever!

Sun Ray Software 4 Update 3 Beta is live!

The Beta program will run for 6-weeks ending on Tuesday, August 19, 2008.

• Beta Software Download
  

• Beta Documentation including Release Notes
  

• Most Frequently Asked Questions

• Beta Feedback Alias: srs-feedback@sun.com

• Beta Feedback Survey:
  After you've downloaded, installed and completed initial testing of the beta software and its new features, we would like to get your feedback.  It should take no more than 10-15 minutes to complete the survey...
  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=FTJcvHGFKH_2fVQZKYqYHsCA_3d_3d

My colleague in the Dubai office, Mitch DSouza, is a shy and retiring fellow not give to self-aggrandisment via blogs.  For this reason, I agreed to post these kiosk mode follow-me printing scripts here on his behalf.

The scripts are here.

Mitch's insructions -

Note, this is written specifically for windows (uttsc) Sun Ray desktops in kiosk mode and also doesn't take into consideration Linux SRSS setups. The scripts currently only cater for 1 locally attached printer but are trivial to extend. You will need to add the scripts and execute the kiosk profile setup script to all servers in the FOG (if any).

So essentially follow-me pass thru printing consists of 3 scripts.

1. The 'setupprof' script that adds pseudo kiosk users to the Printer Adminsitration profile so they can execute lpadmin commands dynamically
2. The '1100.LocalPrint' script to start the utaction action to add or remove printers from the unix srss spooler
3. The 'set-printer.sh' which is called by utaction to do the dirty work

To set this up you need to run the following commands as the root user.  I'm assuming here that you've extracted the tar file to /opt/utprint):

 /opt/utprint/setupprof
 cd /usr/dt/config/Xsession.d
 ln -s /opt/utprint/1100.LocalPrint


That's it. You also need to add the option '-r printer:SR-Default' to the uttsc kiosk mode web config page. Once you restart the session(s) and you and plug a card in, a printer will be dynamically created for you and a zenity message will popup up with the current printer. You can remove the zenity line if you don't want the popup message. If you move your card to another desktop with a locally attached printer it will change the printer dynamically.

It's left to the script reader to configure a default printer if there is no locally attached printer. The windows driver *must* match the locally attached printer or you will probably get garbage printed. You can easily set the windows driver automatically also by using the '-r printer:SR-Default="Driver Name"'