Student / Staff Experience

Feature

Benefit

Performance improvements

Since a fast and responsive desktop is essential for a good user experience, we continue to test and optimize streaming performance. In this release, we have opened a new channel for H264 and addressed issues with H264 on Chrome. These changes significantly improve performance, especially for graphics-intensive applications.

USB streaming (Arduino POC)

Ability to communicate back and forth between the virtual desktop and a USB device connected to the user’s physical device. 

We have completed a proof of concept for “USB streaming” with Arduino boards. Our next test will be with WACOM devices.
 

This feature will be ready for beta testing around August 20.  Please email [email protected] if you’d like beta access.

Enhancements and bug fixes

Enhancements and bug fixes:

• Fixed a printing issue in a 3rd party technology that caused the desktop to freeze when printing to pdf

• Added free text search to Sessions and the Audit Trail (previously this was only available in the Users screen)

• Addressed accessibility gaps in the login page, profile, App Store, and desktop ribbon menu

• Achieved a Lighthouse performance score of 80% on www.apporto.com

• Began development of the Next Generation App Store

Admin Experience

Feature

Benefit

User location map

To provide insight into where users are logging in from, we’ve added a Users Location Map in the Admin Dashboard (bottom right corner). The map uses geo-IP data to approximate user location. The default view is for North America, but you may toggle to see a world map.

Enhancements and bug fixes

Enhancements and bug fixes:
 

• Began development of Next Gen services to improve performance of bulk operations for user creation, editing, and deletion

• Migrated remaining customers to new web architecture, ensuring redundancy