Here’s another really nice video showing the the configuration and user experience for View 4.0 with the SA product, courtesy of our technical marketing guru, Kevin Fletcher.

Thanks, Kevin!

Here are the screenshots for the new Junos Pulse client running on iPhone.

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For those who are running the SPE virtual appliances, the license server is a requirement.  By simply installing the license server enabling license on any hardware capable of running the 7.0 software (SA2000, SA4000, SA6000, SA2500, SA4500, SA6500 — sorry, SA700 is not supported for this use case), a virtually unlimited number of licenses can be applied right on the license server.  Once the license are installed on the server, they can be easily moved around the various virtual appliances as needed.

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Right along with the DTE version of the virtual appliances lies the Service Provider Edition (SPE).  The major differences between the two include…

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The Juniper SSL VPN Virtual Appliance-Demo and Training Edition (VA-DTE) is a live and ready.  Just download it from the Juniper web site and enjoy.  And yet, it is the full Juniper SSL VPN.

A few caveats worth mentioning:

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Every now and then some admin somewhere gets asked to blast out a message to all of the remote access users informing them of something really, really important.  While we have the ability for user home pages to have such customized messages displayed, there are just so many users out there today that aren’t set up for traditional Core Access and instead go straight to Network Connect.  Soooo… in order to allow the admins to now get the message out in a timely fashion, this feature allows a message to be displayed in a separate dialog box, nearly ensuring that the e-mail that 50% of the users have ignored for the past week informing them of your planned downtime can now get through to them.  Every little bit counts and I’m pleased that we can do our part to help.

Note that this covers pre and post authentication events, not providing dynamic messaging after the user has signed in, i.e. 4 hours into an 8 hour session.

First of all, there is absolutely no change in the functionality of Cache Cleaner (CC).  All that has really changed here is that Cache Cleaner has been integrated directly into Host Checker (HC).  Now whenever you create any HC policy, you will simply see that  CC options are available under that settings.  This makes things easier to administer, reduces the number of executables that are pushed to the client machine, provides better support for NC and WSAM launchers, and offers integrated logging through NC.

One of the features that we will ship in 7.0 is the 2 phase upgrade.  The basic idea with this is to allow an administrator to pre-position software upgrade packages on remote SSL VPNs ahead of time, so all that is needed during the downtime is to trigger the upgrade.  This will obviously save many a great deal of time.

As you can see in the screenshot below, we wanted to also call out that anyone pushing upgrades to remote clusters over slow links should pre-position the files on each node prior to starting the upgrade. This will allow all nodes in the cluster to upgrade in minimal time. Not taking this advice and allowing the first node to essentially push to all remaining cluster nodes (again, over slow links) could mean that the upgrade takes so long that you will start to see errors in the logs and wonder when the upgrade will ever finish.

The motivation for this one is really simple: we wanted to provide the best Java applet experience possible for those wishing to securely access Windows Terminal Services inside their network using Windows, Mac, or Linux machines…no admin rights required.  And since customers have tried to upload these themselves and have often times found themselves with support issues, we decided it was just better to bake it into the product and take on any support and upgrade issues ourselves.  It just makes for a better user and administrator experience.

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Those of you not running a FIPS platform can just ignore this.  But for those of you who are, we though you could use a little extra peformance on the web rewriter (Core Access) and the FIPS operations have been tuned up to do just that: provide rather fast page response times. 

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