Symantec™ Workspace Streaming 6.1 SP1 Release Notes

You can now install everything you need to stream standard and virtual software packages directly from the portal or by using a silent, response-file based installation program.

New Workspace Virtualization features

Workspace Streaming has added support for the following new features:

Patch (see next section, “Virtual patch streaming”)
Layer isolation
Autorun from layer
Deactivate on last process exit
Keep file changes in layer
Layer dependencies

See Chapter 9, “Symantec Workspace Virtualization Integration”, of the Workspace Streaming 6.1 SP1 Admin Guide for feature explanations and additional details.

Virtual patch streaming

You can now create upgrades for Workspace Virtualization Packages using Virtual Patch Archives (VPA). VPAs contain only the bit-level changes needed to upgrade a virtual software package from one version to another, eliminating the need to re-distribute large packages.

Changes from build 6.1.1.192 to 6.1.1.194

194 includes a Workspace Virtualization fix described in KB# 48396, Driver problems on systems with disk management software (such as Diskeeper) installed. This change affects only the Workspace Virtualization Agent. No Workspace Streaming functionality was changed with this update.

Supported Platforms

Client operating systems

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914882

Windows Vista and Windows Vista SP1
Windows Server 2003 SP1 or later
Windows 2000 is supported only in legacy mode. New functionality in 6.1 is not supported on this platform.

Server operating systems

Windows 2008
Windows 2003 SP1 or later

Database

Microsoft SQl Server 2005 SP1 or later
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 SP3 or later
Oracle 10g and 11i
PostgreSQL when installed by Workspace Streaming

System Requirements

Client

System Processor	Pentium III, 500 MHz minimum
System Memory	256 MB memory minimum
Free Disk Space	50 MB of free disk space, plus twice the size of the installed application(s) (NTFS recommended)

Server

System Processor	Minimum 1GHz of processor capability
System Memory	2 GB memory minimum
Free Disk Space	2 GB of free disk space, plus three times space required by the applications to be uploaded on to the server

Streaming Composer

System Processor	Pentium III, 700 MHz minimum
System Memory	256 MB memory minimum (512 MB recommended)
Free Disk Space	30 MB of free disk space, plus three times size of the package

Installation

Complete installation instructions are included in the Workspace Streaming Administration Guide included with the product download.

Upgrade

Complete upgrade instructions are included article #48168, Upgrading to Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.1 SP1.

Workspace Streaming SDK

Symantec Workspace Streaming SDK is made up of several web services that are accessed using simple object access protocol (SOAP). The interface is exposed through a web services description language (WSDL) document. The WSDL document provides details on the published methods and objects. Most programming languages provide support for SOAP web services, including C#, Visual Basic, C++, Java, Python, and others. Most languages provide the ability to automatically generate proxy classes using the WSDL document.

The Workspace Streaming SDK download is available in the same location as the Workspace Streaming product.

Upgrading the Workspace Streaming SDK

If you installed the 6.1 version of the Streaming SDK, see article #46567, Symantec Workspace Streaming 6.1 and 6.1 SP1 Release Notes, for important information on upgrade.

Known Issues in this Release

The following are unresolved issues in this release. For additional information regarding an issue, click the Article ID link.

Server Known Issues	Article ID
Problems with Data Access server failover when using SSL/LDAP.	44726
Troubleshooting slow LDAP queries.	44727
Manual steps required when changing the user data source from Microsoft Active Directory to Novell eDirectory.	44728
Server installation quits unexpectedly after a failed connection to SQL Server 2005 when using fully qualified domain name.	45530
Data Access server port is reset to default after editing Server Group Configuration details.	45531
Background streaming data transfer values don't apply in direct request mode.	45532
Intel Mobility network bandwidth detection is not accurate at certain levels. This might cause updates flagged as non-critical to not be distributed even if the available bandwidth is above the specified threshold.	48066

Client Known Issues	Article ID
If a network interruption occurs during streaming of a virtual software package the process must be restarted.	44729
Icon and package prepopulation does not succeed when client uses IP address to contact a server configured by hostname.	44730
Icon refresh causes 5.2.2 shortcut icons to remain after upgrade.	44732
Reghook doesn't run on Windows Vista if driver verifier is active.	44733
Streaming Agent cannot be installed by guest user on Windows XP.	44736
Streaming package upgrade might fail if registry settings are removed between versions.	45534
Streaming an upgrade package of Acrobat 9 leaves icon for previous version in Application Manager.	48167
Streaming a Workspace Virtualization package with hide from operating system selected displays an "unable to locate shortcut information" error.	48062
Command-line Agent installer fails if quotes are used when specifying the installation response file.	48067
Windows can't find file" error on client after changing default version of a package	48480
Some MSI applications streamed as virtual layers don't launch from App Manager	48483

Packaging Known Issues	Article ID
The Admin Console "Available Packages" screen delays during initial load.	44738
Non-admin users are unable to upgrade Microsoft Visio package.	44739
Office 2007 SVS package doesn't launch properly on XP systems with Computer Associates Enterprise 8.1.	44740
Office 2007, Project 2007, and Visio 2007 require snapshot packages.	44741
Streaming an MSI application as an SVS layer works for single user installations only.	44742
After streaming opening Office 2007 Pro help initiates self-heal.	44752
Possible conflicts streaming Office 2003 and Office 2007 virtual packages on the same system.	44753
Streaming Composer might encounter problems when applying VPAs that create file paths longer than 230 characters.	48064
This package cannot be streamed" error message when streaming an upgrade package of Office 2007	48478

Revision History

Description

Date

Added the following additional issues:

Windows can't find file" error on client after changing default version of a package

This package cannot be streamed" error message when streaming an upgrade package of Office 2007

Some MSI applications streamed as virtual layers don't launch from App Manager

August 7th, 2009

Added note on build number change from 6.1.1.192 to 6.1.1.194

August 4th, 2009

Third Party Legal Notices

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jTDS is Free Software. jTDS is made available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

Legacy ID

48193

Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC1861