What's New in 7.2?
- User-based profile assignment
- Secure Session Apps
- MFA support for Azure, Ping, & Okta
- Full support for Azure Virtual Desktop
- Dual Persona Write location
IT teams can now assign profiles, applications, and virtual disks to devices based on user credentials, integrating with our supported authentication providers. Prior to this, profiles were always assigned to a specific device and that profile would be common for all users using that device.
With user-based profile assignment, two users could receive completely different profiles while using the same device - allowing organizations to provide for situations where multiple employees must utilize the same devices, opening up much more opportunity to embrace shared device or hotdesking strategies.
User-based profile assignment drastically reduces IT administration time by eliminating the need for moving existing profiles or creating new ones for specific use cases or customers. IT simply need to apply singular profiles to the users in their environment, based on the credentials of their authentication provider. The profile will travel with their authentication credentials.
Secure Session Apps is a brand new offering allowing the installation of up to three local applications on virtual, encrypted volumes so they cannot be accessed or viewed outside of the SRW secure environment. The protected volume utilizes the same Bitlocker protected virtual disk technology used by Dual Persona.
This new technology integrates with our existing Software Package deployment, enabling the feature is as simple as ticking a box.
This new feature of Secure Remote Worker will allow IT teams to apply Enterprise level security to local applications, eliminating the ability for tech-savvy employees to access installation locations of corporate resources - allowing local LoB apps to be deployed without fear of unauthorized access lead to data leakage or malicious actions.
*7.2 allows you to deploy a maximum of 3 Secure Session Apps on each device across your environment. If you require more than this, please contact your account manager here.
MFA support for Azure, Ping, & Okta
ThinScale now allows for Multi Factor Authentication login support for the Management Console. Allowing the organization to apply extra security to their management platform users logging in with their Azure AAD, Ping or Okta credentials. This ensures only authorized users will be able to access the ThinScale Management Platform.
This enforces access control on IT administration - not just employee endpoints- lessening the potential attack surface of your environment.

In 7.2, ThinScale solutions that are providing resources from a remote desktop can now extract application resources to display as applications inside the ThinScale UI. This allows us to support the latest and greatest version of Azure Virtual Desktop!
This feature has been heavily requested for our customers using AVD, so we are delighted to provide this now.
Also, as access to the relevant applications is much more visible, and not hidden behind a prior client icon, this will greatly enhance the end-user's working experience.

In 7.0 we introduced our Dual persona feature, creating separate drives where ThinScale users could securely save to. In order to provide more flexibility to our customers using Dual Persona we have given IT teams the option to assign additional write locations aside from the main secured drive.
In the profile settings of Secure Remote Worker, admins can now specifically designate drives to be made available to employees while also running Dual Persona. This will allow employees to work within a secured, encrypted drive, while also allowing them to access resources from other locations.
This will be particularly useful for deployments that depend on Network Share drives.






