VMware UAG and Horizon Broker Certificate Gotchas in 2020
New year and some of my clients need to update their certificates for the new decade. Here were some little issues we ran into while upgrading certificates on…
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IPM’s new Remote Session Super Switcher utility
Here is the issue: Users can easily get lost when running (and trying to navigate among) multiple full-screen VDI desktops, be they Horizon View, Citrix, Microsoft RDP, or…
How to upgrade your Horizon Infrastructure (7.7 Edition)
Sometimes you have to bite the bullet and just upgrade everything! I recently went through the exercise of looking up all of the various solution components in the…
Cleaning up Horizon Database Errors
vSphere vCenter is great. Horizon is great. Composer is great. Sometimes though, they go off script and start getting out of sync. I’m sure everyone who has run…
VMware Horizon View Maintenance releases/updates
By now, most of my clients are running at least version 6.x of Horizon. Occasionally, I’ll get emails asking if it is time to upgrade or what the…
VMware View 6.2 XP Support issues.
Recently, I was working with a client on an upgrade to their VMware View environment. We were upgrading from View 5.2 to 6.2. A nice jump in versions…
Citrix Netscalers and Heartbleed Bug
If you haven’t heard about the 2 year old OpenSSL security flaw named Heartbleed, check out the official site for information : Heartbleed.com. Sadly, it was just ‘discovered’…
Possible issue with VMware View 5 and vSphere hardware v8
Jeff Miller ran into some interesting issues with his VMware View deployment and kindly shared. I have been working with EMC support for a few months now trying…
How to add a Shortcut for all users in a VDI environment via Group Policy Preferences
Jeff Miller was using VMware View 5 with Wyse p20’s and needed the ability for users to disconnect from their desktop rather than just locking their machine and…