The ACE 2.0 Release Candidate is now available here. A ton of work went in between the last beta and this build. I think all the developers deserve a huge pat on the back for their late nights and hard work hammering though last minute issues. A new cool feature in this build is the integration of ThinPrint. This greatly enhances the printer management and capability of ACE instances. Its easily configured using the policy settings of an ACE Master. Once enabled, it automatically handles the addition of the required virtual serial port as well as installing the .print components for ACE packages. When an ACE instance that has the virtual
printer option enabled is deployed. The .print client manager is automatically installed on the host and accessible from the system tray icon for controlling the behavior. Its only available while the ACE instance is running.
ThinPrint.
In addition, a lot of work was put into how Pocket ACE's handle situations where a user may accidentally or purposely unplug their USB stick. This is a interesting situation. In essence, a USB flash stick becomes your hard drive and unplugging it while the VM is running is the same as unplugging the hard drive of a physical system as it running. Needless to say, some amazing work has gone into Pocket ACE to protect the integrity and recovery of an ACE instance if this occurs. All the skins and GUI's are finalized as well so, for early beta testers there will be some changes in the way things look. A few weeks back I received a Garmin 60CSx. Since I do not really own my own personal computer I keep an ACE instance for my personal stuff that I need to move around. Obviously, being able to load Maps and Waypoints was going to be a must have. Using after loading the Mapsource software from Garmin that includes the USB drivers my ACE instance picked up my GPS unit right away and I am golden.
ThinPrint.