Here we go! Workspace ONE Access 22.09.0.0 is GA! There are many new features and improvements that can be read here.. In this blog post, I will cover the online upgrade from Workspace ONE Access 21.08.0.1 to 22.09.0.0.

Important: Although we perform an online update, the following additional steps are required!

Log in to the VMware Customer Connect portal and navigate to the VMware Workspace ONE Access (VIDM) Download page. Navigate to the update-fix.tgz section and download the file to your local client. All important steps and a short guide can be found under the “Read More” section

Let’s check the appliance version via the command line, and you see that my appliance is running on version 21.08.0.1. Then, let’s start with the update

First, we need to upload the update-fix.tgz to your Workspace ONE Access appliance! This can be easily done with a tool like WinSCP After we’ve uploaded the file, we need to extract this one. This can be done on the appliance itself via the following command:

tar -xvf update-fix.tgz

The command for this task is the following one:

chmod 755 configureupdate.hzn

The last step before the update can start is to update the permission as below:

sudo chmod 755 configureupdate.hzn

Check if an online update is available:

If yes, you can start the online update:

Workspace ONE Access will take some minutes to apply the update, and you should see the following progress screen:

After a few minutes, and if the update went fine, you should see the following output, and then you can just reboot the Workspace ONE Access appliance:

When the Workspace ONE Access appliance is up and running again, we should see the following screen:

In addition to this, we can check the version again via the command line If we now log in via the web console (https://youraccessurl.yourdomain.com), we will see the redesigned Workspace ONE Access navigation!

So happy updating and enjoy the new features and enhancements!