With the toolbar you have quick access to a special keyboard, screen capture feature and special right click feature. Two very good features when connected are the tools bar and the special mouse pointer they developed. Sometimes a part of the screen just disappears when switching back and forth. However, once in a session switching your iPad between portrait and landscape mode doesn’t always work the way you want it. A very nice option is that you can choose between landscape and portrait mode for the iPad. Next step is to select the screen resolution you want to work with. In my case I can choose between 4 different desktop pools. You fill out the obvious connection details and then you can choose one of the desktop pools that View offers you. Choosing “Off” on the first slider will make this a RDP connection. You can choose to connect to a VMware View environment or not. Let’s have a walk through the app.Īfter starting the app, the first thing to do is create a connection. When I finally got my iPad and had tried some free RDP iPad apps, I decide to buy the Wyse PocketCloud app, although certainly not cheap at $14.99, it is worth the price. I used the Wyse PocketCloud app to connect to my home VMware View environment and I was quite impressed by the performance, considering it was a WiFi connection from iPad to a MiFi device, which routed the traffic over 3G to the internet all the way to the other side of the world to Belgium while driving. So, what is the Wyse PocketCloud app? From the website: “ Need complete access to a cloud, your PC, Remote Desktop Services, a Terminal Server, VMware View or virtual machine from the palm of your hand? With Wyse PocketCloudâ„¢, it’s no problem! Wyse PocketCloud allows you to securely access your desktop anytime and anywhere on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad.“Īs I said, the first time I tried was in the bus at Tech Field Day. I gave it a try and was really impressed. I did get some free playtime in the bus with the iPad from David Davis before I could hold my own and he had the Wyse PocketCloud for iPad application on it. When visiting the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day in Boston, half the delegates in the bus had already bought an iPad and after seeing what a great device it was, I couldn’t resist and on the last day I bought one myself.
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