By now, you’ve likely heard about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities and their potential consequences. Fortunately, there’s very little chance your Connection Broker is in danger, but there are some precautions you may want to take. For more information on whether your Leostream Connection Broker is at risk from these vulnerabilities, and how to protect your environment,...Read More

If it’s time to migrate to a newer version of vCenter Server, you’ll need to consider your VMware vSphere Center setup in your Connection Broker. You can always create a new Center, import desktops as duplicates, and then delete the old Center once they’re all imported. However, we have an even more efficient process that...Read More

Some of the most common issues we see in the support queue have to do with center scans and refresh intervals. A center scan is when we query your center for any changes, and the refresh interval refers to the frequency of the center scans.     So, what could go wrong? Well, for example, provisioning...Read More

If you’ve read through our HP Anyware quick start guide, you may have discovered that you need the PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway to get your PCoIP connections working in your Leostream environment. NOTE: The PCoIP Connection Manager and Security Gateway is not the same as the HP Anyware Manager. Here, we highlight the...Read More

An essential part of the Connection Broker’s job is to smoothly allocate and assign desktops to users based on various rules. With Policy and Release Plan settings, you can optimize desktop usage, ensuring that desktops that aren’t in use become available for people to access, while desktops that need to stay assigned to their users...Read More

Do your users have tablets? If so, they may have looked for a Leostream client on their device’s app store and, unfortunately, they didn’t find one. But that doesn’t mean they can’t use their tablet to log into Leostream.   So, how do you log into Leostream from a tablet or Chromebook?   The short...Read More

RemoteApp is the key to running remote applications that appear as though they are running locally on your users’ client device, which is perfect for remote access, branch offices, kiosk workstations, or deploying multiple versions of a single program. With the Leostream Connection Broker, your RemoteApp applications are managed from the same single-pane-of-glass interface you use...Read More

When a user logs in to their remote desktop operating system with one username, and then uses a different username to access the Connection Broker, you may notice some unwanted snags, like desktop assignments not being released.Read More

Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the Leostream Knowledgebase, a support information hub for Leostream users that covers everything from Broker configuration basics to frequently asked questions about our unique features. Leostream’s software offers a wealth of functionality for VDI environments of all kinds, and we’re always honing and expanding our functionality so you...Read More

To prevent and troubleshoot various desktop assignment issues, it helps to understand how rogue user assignment and management works. If your users sometimes connect to their desktops directly, rather than through a Leostream client (which includes the Leostream Web client and Leostream Connect, but also PCoIP zero clients, or any thin client that communicates with...Read More