What's new

Parallels RAS 20.2.1

• Support for sending keyboard input and events from remote applications to the active application on the local device for the Parallels Client for macOS, managed centrally by RAS policies

• Support for FSLogix version v25.04 and dropped support for v2210_HF_02

• Added PAP (UTF-8) and CHAP (UTF-8) password encoding support for RADIUS MFA login with passwords containing characters like Umlauts (ä, ö, ü) and the section sign (§)

Parallels RAS 20.2

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 20.2:

• Ability to choose several datastores during host pool creation

• Ability to change Z-Order for published applications

• Ability to repair an AVD deployment

• Ability to schedule Agent updates for AVD

• Ability to use more than five automations for RADIUS MFA

• Ability to change account group for group users

• Ability to add custom root certificates

Deprecations and updated system requirements:

• See Software Requirements for updated system requirements for components and clients.

Parallels RAS 20.1

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 20.1:

• Ability to use the available area for an application on a single monitor

• Support for Nutanix AOS 6.10

Parallels RAS 20

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 20:

• Ability to launch applications from local devices

• AWS Availability Zones support for RDSH and VDI host pools

• Added support for SC//HyperCore 9.4

• Added support for the Swiss and Belgian keyboard layouts in the policies

Parallels RAS 19.4.2

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.4.2:

• Ability to redirect local disk drives as read-only.

• Ability to limit clipboard to plain text.

• Ability to use SAML SSO together with credentials for user authentication.

• Ability to add a custom background for User Portal.

• Ability to select whether unenrolled users can see the The user name or password is incorrect error when they enter incorrect credentials for TOTP, Google Authenticator, and email OTP.

• Ability to automatically connect to an alternative Connection Broker.

Parallels RAS 19.4.1

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.4.1:

• Ability to select if Parallels Client detection is triggered on sign-in to User Portal or after the user confirms it via a prompt

• Ability to configure a Service URL through which User Portal will detect the IP of the browser it is running on

• Added an option to map the Windows key to a key combination when running User Portal on Chrome OS

Parallels RAS 19.4

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.4:

• Ability to send OTP via email.

• Ability to automatically upgrade Agents on RD Session Hosts, VDI, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

• Support for IGEL 11 and 12.

• Extended image management for Nutanix AHV (AOS).

• Support for Scale Computing SC//HyperCore 9.2.

• Ability to enable tunneling for the <Default> Theme.

• Ability to edit the message that will be shown by Parallels Client when users sign in using MFA for Radius and TOTP.

• Active Directory (AD) based permissions for session management.

• Ability to add a customizable URL that points to internal support from RAS Console and Management Portal.

• Administrator permissions to view license information.

• Ability to configure the minimum key size of certificate authority templates.

• Validation of HTTP host headers to protect against host header injections.

• New predefined reports:

  • Sessions disconnections for host pools

  • Transport protocol for host pools

  • Bandwidth availability for host pools

  • Latency for host pool

  • Connection quality for host pool

  • UX Evaluator for host pool

  • Logon duration for host pool

• Azure Virtual Desktop improvements.

Parallels RAS 19.3.1

Important: Do not update to Parallels RAS 19.3 if you assigned multiple templates to a single VDI host pool.

Important: If you are using Azure Virtual Desktop in Parallels RAS 19.3, you need to update Parallels Client to version 19.3.

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.3.1:

• Ability to automatically reset sessions on user logoff.

• Azure Virtual Desktop improvements.

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.

Parallels RAS 19.3

Important: Do not update to Parallels RAS 19.3 if you assigned multiple templates to a single VDI host pool.

Important: If you are using Azure Virtual Desktop in Parallels RAS 19.3, you need to update Parallels Client to version 19.3.

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.3:

• Template versioning for RD Session Hosts, VDI, and Azure Virtual Desktop. This feature includes the following:

  • Version management

  • Version tags

  • The ability to assign template versions to host pools for RD Session Hosts, VDI, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

  • Scheduled template recreation for RD Session Hosts, VDI, and Azure Virtual Desktop.

• Ability to configure user profiles and other settings on the host pool level.

• Ability to change user passwords via third-party IdPs.

• New policy for configuring drive redirection cache.

• New policy for prohibiting saving username.

• Ability to drain and power off hosts based on the workload.

• FSLogix Office Containers support and enhanced management for FSLogix.

• Dynamic printer mapping.

• Azure Virtual Desktop improvements.

• Add multiple provider addresses for the SC//HyperCore provider.

• Ability to hide billing information on Tenants.

• Ability to recreate hosts keeping the existing MAC addresses on the SC//HyperCore provider.

• TLS 1.3 support.

• FIPS 140-2 compliance.

• Terminology updates:

  • References to Pools/Groups have been standardized as "Host Pools".

  • Reference to Desktop/Guests have been standardized as "Hosts".

• New predefined reports:

  • Session activity

  • Disconnection reasons

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.

Parallels RAS 19.2.3

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.2.f3:

• Ability to turn off audit database synchronization across Connection Brokers.

• Support for drive redirection cache in a session initiated by Parallels Client for macOS.

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.

Parallels RAS 19.2.2

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.2.2:

• Ability to modify the license type of a host when it joins a host pool. You can also manually change the license type of any host within a host pool.

• Ability to lock or log off from a computer when all user sessions are closed.

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.

Parallels RAS 19.2

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.2:

• Integration with MSIX app attach for AVD.

• Disk storage cost optimization for VDI and AVD.

• Ability to choose the transport protocol for connections between Parallels Client and a server on RDSH, VDI, and Remote PC.

• Ability to use RDP Shortpath for single-session and multi-session AVD hosts.

• Ability to connect to AVD resources using Parallels Web Client.

• New policy for selecting the display configuration.

• Ability to assign persistent hosts by the client device hostname.

• Ability to recreate RD Session Hosts and hosts with their original BIOS UUID on ESXi and vCenter (works automatically).

• Added Microsoft Authenticator as a TOTP provider.

Deprecations and updated system requirements:

• See Software Requirements for updated system requirements for components and clients.

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.

Parallels RAS 19.1

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.1:

• Integration with MSIX app attach for VDI.

• Search for client policies.

• Ability to update all agents in an AVD host pool simultaneously.

• New policy for configuring dynamic desktop resizing for published applications.

• New policy for configuring multimedia redirection on Azure Virtual Desktop.

• Ability to register public domain addresses when using a secret key for joining a RAS Tenant Broker.

• Ability to supply public domain addresses when joining a tenant to a RAS Tenant Broker using a secret key.

• Ability to easily view the details of a failure to create a hosts.

• New predefined reports:

  • Transport protocol (TCP/UDP)

  • Network latency

  • Connection quality

  • Bandwidth availability

Deprecations and updated system requirements:

• See Software Requirements for updated system requirements for components and clients.

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.

Parallels RAS 19.0

The following new features were added in Parallels RAS 19.0:

• Support for Amazon Web Services as a cloud provider and ability to use EC2 instances.

• Integration with MSIX app attach.

• Let's Encrypt certificate management.

• New Parallels Client for Windows for ARM64.

• Expression-based client policies, filtering for published resources and MFA configuration.

• Power management: starting up and shutting down servers on schedule. Schedules can be created for RD Session Hosts, VDI, and AVD hosts.

• Email-based account discovery that gives users quick access to the RAS resources when using the Parallels Client.

• Logon hours restrictions that allow to restrict user access to published resources during specified time frames.

• Ability to assign different MFA providers to different Themes.

• Ability to specify URLs to be redirected to local end user device or to be launched in the remote session.

• Ability to delegate to Custom administrators permissions for working with specific publishing folders.

Deprecations and updated system requirements:

• See Software Requirements for updated system requirements for components and clients.

For the complete list of new features and improvements, see Release notes: https://kb.parallels.com/en/129018.