A Brief History of User Profiles …and an Idea for Microsoft!
Here is a great piece written by Jacques Bensimon. Before getting into it, let me stress that this is not a survey of all available (native and third-party)…
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VMware Horizon 7.9 Upgrades – What’s new?
I recently did some upgrades to VMware’s Horizon version 7.9 at a few clients and here are some of the little changes I noticed that you should be…
VMware PowerCLI – Quick query to list VMs restarted in an HA event
I don’t practice my PowerShell scripting nearly enough day to day for it to really stick so when I see/use these quick little one-liners that are so useful,…
How to add Physical Disks to EMC’s VxRail Hyper-converged Solution
Sometimes the easiest looking things can be ‘not so easy’, if you don’t know where to look. Adding physical hard drives to a VxRail array seems like it…
Disk 2000 is not Moving – Crazy weird message from VMware
If you are trying to Storage vMotion a machine in VMware vSphere and get this crazy strange message. Disk ‘2000’ is not moving, so any transform requests will not…
PSA: Purple Screen of Death when collecting logs on VxRail Cluster
This is probably just an edge case but I figured I would put it out there into the `webs so admins are aware. While troubleshooting an unrelated VxRail…
Restrict VMware Horizon Users from using UAG remotely
Today I was asked by a client if there was a way to restrict a group of users from accessing a VMware Horizon environment from the internet using…
Migrating Windows Based vCenter to VMware Virtual Appliance 6.7 Walk Through
All of my new implementations are running VMware’s vCenter Virtual Appliance. It is SOO easy to deploy and includes everything you need for your infrastructure including Update Manager. …
VMware Distributed switches or stick with Standard switches?
Distributed switches have been around for a couple of years now. I run into them at about half the clients I work with. For context, at least half…