A few weeks ago, I did a research with Leee Jeffries for GO‑EUC on NVMe memory tiering versus traditional swap  in VMware ESXi. VMware ESXi Memory Management Reimagined: NVMe Tiering vs Traditional Swap | GO-EUC The article sparked some great discussions and there is an important caveat when it comes to vGPU desktops that I want to highlight. vGPU Desktops Always Need Full DRAM Here’s the thing that often trips people up: every VM with a vGPU requires all of its RAM to be res

Over the past few months, I’ve been looking into some of the trickier issues in environments that combine Omnissa Horizon Instant Clones, Hybrid Azure AD Join, App Volumes and even TrueSSO. A true resonance cascade For issues with PRT when federated EntraID to Omnissa Access and when using TrueSSO read my previous post: The Hybrid Join Incident: Recovering the Lost PRT 1. PRT unpredictability and the “Wait for Hybrid Join” setting One of the biggest headaches in Instant Clone

A few years back, VMware Verify reached end of life (2022). Since then, we basically had two options left from the Omnissa perspective: a TOTP authenticator app based on RFC 6238 or Intelligent Hub MFA with push notifications. The TOTP option works well, especially for Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) , but users still end up typing in codes constantly. Intelligent Hub MFA solves that with push, but the downside is that it requires some level of device management or registration

Single Sign-On in modern environments can be a beautiful thing, until it isn’t. You’ve federated Entra ID to Omnissa Access, implemented Hybrid Join, and everything works perfectly when users log in with their username and password. But then you try it externally. TrueSSO is in place to make VDI logins seamless, certificates replace passwords and suddenly the PRT never shows up. Microsoft apps (Teams v2 being the most noticeable) rely increasingly on the PRT for full Single S

If you’ve integrated Workspace ONE Access with Microsoft 365 before, the steps will look familiar. Omnissa Access is the evolution of VMware Identity Manager, and while the interface and URLs have changed slightly, the principle remains the same: let Microsoft 365 trust Omnissa Access as the identity provider for your domain. This post walks through the new way to federate Entra ID with Omnissa Access using the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK. It replaces the legacy MSOnline m

Measuring Real Latency — The Missing Piece in VDI Performance Latency isn’t just a number you pull from monitoring tools. It’s about the delay  users feel , the gap between when they click and when something actually happens on their screen. In virtual desktop environments, traditional latency metrics (like server response times or network delays) only tell part of the story. Users interact with their device locally, so the real question is: how long does it take until their

You know, most VDI environments run like a well painted canvas. The default FSLogix GPO covers most users with smooth even strokes. They...

Omnissa Intelligence has been in the stack for a while now. Most people knew it existed, but it often got ignored, to many day-to-day...

On december 18, 2024, I had the honor to do a live webinar with  Leee Jeffries . "Mastering the Multi-Layered EUC Environment: A Journey...

So… on December 19th of 2024, Omnissa released App Volumes 2412. One change I’m most thrilled about: MSI for Windows Endpoints AND and...

Although with many implementations of the Workspace One platform Workspace One Access is configured as the IDP (personally preferred when...

Recently got involved in designing and building a new awesome blistering fast Omnissa Horizon environment for a hospital. This new...

A while ago I created a discission tree to explain/help customers and coworkers with a couple of the design choices possible with the...

More and more authentication methods are available to Workspace One Access and one of them is FIDO2. I’ve seen multiple use cases with...

A while ago I wrote a cross reference blog with my buddy Henry Heres about integrating Citrix Gateway and VMware Workspace One Access. A...

A new feature available since vSphere 8.0 U2 is federated authentication with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) and provision...

As you probably already know App-V was originally scheduled to end in January this year (2023). Recently Microsoft announced they pushed...

Recently I got involved in multiple projects implementing and resolving issues relating FSlogix. At the same time I noticed that as of...

Ran into a little bug yesterday while implementing VMware Horizon and Imprivata. Appliances rolled out, configured the site, policy's...

Recently I had a little challenge with an on Prem VMware Horizon VDI environment and the implementation with FSLogix Office and Profile...