Dell Wyse ThinOS 9.0 & Wyse Management Suite 2.0

Dell has released a new major version of their ThinClient OS ThinOS, which focuses only on Citrix Workspace app enhancements.

Dell Wyse 3040

A few days ago, Dell released ThinOS Version 9.0. To quote the release notes:

ThinOS 9.0 is a Citrix-specific release, which integrates Citrix Workspace app. Other Broker agent connections such as VMware, RDP, and Amazon WorkSpaces are not supported in this release. ThinOS 9.0 does not support the usage of INI parameters. You must use either Wyse Management Suite or the local Admin Policy Tool to manage your systems.

The important part is, that you can no longer rely on your good old FTP server and the wnos.ini. You have to implement Wyse Management Suite Version 2.0, which is currently the only way to manage ThinOS 9.0. Wyse Management Suite Version 2.0 is free up to 10.000 devices with a slightly limited feature set. You can find all details in the Wyse Management Suite feature matrix. ThinOS 9.0 is available for the following devices:

  • Wyse 3040 Thin Client
  • Wyse 5070 Thin Client
  • Wyse 5470 Thin Client
  • Source: Supported platforms

According to Thomas Möllerbernd from technicalhelp.de:

ThinOS 9 is completely new. Dell has rewritten the whole code as they were kind of stuck when it comes to new enhancements. With the brand new codebase, they are now able again to easily and quickly react to customers’ needs and 3rd-party vendors’ wishes.

ThinOS 9.0 focuses massively on the improvement of the capabilities of the Citrix Workspace app (formerly Citrix Receiver) and makes a version jump from Citrix Receiver 14.0 Citrix Workspace app 1912.

Here is a quoted list of the most notable features, for a full list please check out the New and enhanced features from the official Release Notes:

ThinOS is tested with all the latest versions of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, most notable:

  • Citrix Virtual Apps 6.5 (XenApp 6.5)
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.6 LTSR
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.15 LTSR
  • Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 1811 and later

Source: Dell Wyse ThinOS Version 9.0 Release Notes

Author: Marco

Marco is an IT-System administrator and IT-Consultant with 10+ years experience. He is specialized in the delivery of virtual Apps and Desktops with Citrix solutions. In 2017 he has been awarded Citrix Technology Advocate by Citrix for his community work (#CTA). His second core area is availability & performance monitoring with Zabbix, a leading open-source solution. His employer is the German IT-Company ANAXCO, which is developing a Transport Management Software (TMS) based on Microsoft Dynamics AX. More about Marco

6 thoughts on “Dell Wyse ThinOS 9.0 & Wyse Management Suite 2.0”

  1. Yes, but how do you get this on to the thin client at all? We can not find any files except Merlin and a couple of packages.

      1. I don’t want to be rude, but the release notes are very clear about ThinOS 9.0 being Citrix only. I also mention that in my article and the video you posted also does that at the beginning. But mistakes happen all the time.
        I don’t share your opinion, that this was a time waste by Dell. They clearly pushed the features first, that were highly demanded by their customers and ThinOS is very well adopted all over the Citrix community. They once even had a purely Citrix focused product line, the Xenith Client, which was ThinOS with only ICA support if I remember correctly.
        Does ThinOS 8.6 lack any RDS feature you have been desperately waiting for? Because ThinOS 8.6 was way behind the feature stack for Citrix.

  2. Is there a way to deploy on a Dell Wyse 5070 a fresh install of ThinOS (9.X) via PXE?

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