{"id":2561,"date":"2014-04-24T21:19:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atumvirt.com\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2014-04-24T21:19:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T05:19:26","slug":"lessons-from-bring-your-child-to-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2014\/04\/lessons-from-bring-your-child-to-work-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons From Bring Your Child to Work Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 6 year old Son excitedly told me today at lunch time that today was, in fact,\u00a0Bring Your Child to Work Day. \u00a0Last year he found out too late and didn’t get to come, so this year he was quite excited to join me for my afternoon. \u00a0After informing my wife, we packed up and headed back to the office after lunch where I proudly sat him in front of one of the thin client devices at my desk and logged him in to a virtual desktop. \u00a06 year olds can really bring you smiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve subscribed to ABCMouse for a few years now and find that it is an engaging site for the kids to learn and play, and for the cost, getting 3 kids in the subscription is really a great deal. \u00a0Being flash based, the site struggles a bit on my Surface (v1, RT) but is somewhat playable, just slow. \u00a0When he asked to play on ABCMouse.com from the thin client, I was intrigued. \u00a0We got him signed in and he went at it. \u00a0The Atrust thin client he was connecting from doesn’t support flash redirection, but I knew I had a Wyse Z90SW in my office so I swapped his thin client so that he’d have a better experience.<\/p>\n

“Yes, dad, its slow. \u00a0Lets get a faster computer so it is not so slow!” – Challenge accepted!<\/p>\n

Upon swapping the thin client out, I reconnected to the session and found that flash was still not totally fluid. \u00a0Remembering that flash redirection didn’t occur upon re-connection (in 5.6 at least), I logged off and on a new session to ensure flash had the best chance to redirect. \u00a0Still, after the relog, no dice.<\/p>\n

HDX monitor told me the issue very quickly:<\/p>\n

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The Flash Player on the client device is not compatible with the Flash Player on the server device. Server-side Flash rendering will be used.<\/p>\n

Client Player version: 11.2.202.233<\/p>\n

Server Player version: 12.0.0.70<\/p>\n

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Flash redirection requires the same\u00a0major<\/strong><\/em> version. \u00a0The problem here is that at some point flash in our VDI image was updated by someone and our thin clients didn’t get the same treatment. \u00a0Our user base has been living without flash redirection for quite some time and unfortunately (or fortunately? Perhaps they didn’t notice!) a problem report never filtered in to our service queue (perhaps they didn’t call, or perhaps the issue didn’t get reported past help desk).<\/p>\n

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