VMworld 2016: What's new in Horizon 7.0.2?

One of the two best weeks of the year is in progress. VMworld 2016 and this year’s US version is located in Las Vegas. traditionally, a lot of announcements were made around new features and new products. Let’s find out what’s new in Horizon 7.0.2.

Blast Extreme

Support for over 60 thin/zero clients by Dell, HP, Igel, 10ZIG, Fujitsu and Atrust
Grid GPU support for nVIDIA Grid K1, K2, M6, M10 and M60 cards including H.264 encoder option for lower CPU consumption and increased scalability (less latency, 4K support and 6-13% better FPS).
Bandwidth Optimization and controls (for stuff as bandwidth cap per user, H.264 encoder quality levels and audio level).
SteelHead support for application and networking optimization.
vRealize Operations support with session statistics (Round Trip Latency, encode frame rate, throughput and estimated bandwidth)
UEM SmartPolicies

Intel vDGA Graphics support with Intel Skylake GPU

RDSH Hosted Apps

Realtime Audio/Video support for applications (webcam and audio support on HTML Access, Windows, Linux and MacOS).
Generic USB redirection support (windows client only).
Support parameter pass-through in RDSH apps (launch RDSH apps with dynamically generated parameters such as a SAML token).

Client improvements

URL content redirection for MacOS client.
Windows Media MMR is now supported for Linux-based Thin Clients

File upload and download for the HTML Access client
Windows 10 UWP client (supports client hardware like Raspberry Pi, several windows based thin clients and Hololens!)
The Android client will be ready for Nougat.
The iOS client will get iOS 10 support (including support for the Swiftpoint GT mouse, how cool is that!?)
Increased clipboard size for multiple clients
All clients have updated OpenSSL for enhanced security.

Furthermore:

Official Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 support for Virtual Desktops and RDSH servers.
Ability to map one certificate to multiple accounts so one smartcard could be used one one certificate on that smartcard can be mapped to multiple users.
DPI Synchronization so remote content can be displayed pixel-to-pixel in 4K.