Adding a Lightning Sensor to Home Assistant
This weekend I tried out the Blitzortung.org Lighting Detector custom component. Super easy to install via HACS and a great addition to my Home Assistant configuration. For a…
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What’s New in VMware UAG 3.10
The 3.10 version of the Unified Access Gateway was released early July but I have only recently been getting some experience deploying it at clients. Here are my…
MS Edge (Chromium) issues on Citrix with Fixes
I love Chrome but there is no denying Internet Explorer in the enterprises. Recently, Jacques Bensimon installed Edge (from the “Edge for Business” MSI download) on a Windows…
What’s new with VMware Horizon 8 (Or 2006 as it prefers to be called)
Is it VMware Horizon 8 or Horizon 2006? Confusing times call for confusing naming standards. Horizon 2006 is the next version of VMware's End-User Computing platform. In my…
How to Enable Alexa Guard Mode via Home Assistant using Presence Detection
Amazon Alexa Guard needs Presence detection. Having to say "I'm home" or "I'm leaving" is an annoying way to arm/disarm such a helpful feature like Alexa Guard Mode.…
How to Deploy VMware UAG to Azure
You've downloaded the Azure Unified Access Gateway Appliance from VMware, you've downloaded the UAG Powershell scripts along with it and all you are getting are errors when deploying.…
zLauncher v2: Introducing “Thin Client Mode”
Written By Jacques Bensimon When we premiered zLauncher in this post 3 months ago, I predicted that I probably wasn’t done with it and that more features might…
How to configure Garadget for LOCAL MQTT Only
I've had this TODO item on my list since September 27th 2019 when Garadget released firmware version 1.20. Reconfigure the two Garadget Garage Door openers to use LOCAL…
Best ways to Shrink and Optimize FSLogix Profile VHD files
This is the FSLogix Magic Hammer You Didn't Know You Had! by Jacques BensimonAs you probably know, as a result of the Microsoft acquisition and of the generous…