Recently got involved in designing and building a new awesome blistering fast Omnissa Horizon environment for a hospital. This new environment is based on the latest Horizon ESB, DEM, AppVolumes, Windows 11 etc. And as many hospitals do, they use Imprivata OneSign. We ran into a bug. When logging in to the desktop (either Imprivata Client or Horizon client directly) we got confronted by the Imprivata GINA screen. Once again entering credentials and the desktop continues. Reco

Ran into a little bug yesterday while implementing VMware Horizon and Imprivata. Appliances rolled out, configured the site, policy's etc. etc. On the regular Windows endpoints this worked as expected. Login went fine, tabbed a badge, entering additional credentials if required by policy and the session would beautifully start, locking, roaming, smooth as silk.. Pushed the Imprivata agent to the Thin Clients (Dell Wyse based on Windows 10 IoT, although the brand does not matt

On a recent project I had to deploy multiple VMware UAG’s for external access. The UAGS are hosted at a cloud provider and the only access I had was the vCloud director. So no PowerShell deployment or the default OVA deployment trough vCenter. Unfortunately the deployment did not work, the backend team was not available at the time (bigger priorities and Ok fair enough Friday late in the afternoon) so no escape to a regular deployment and of course I gave myself a deadline fo

VMware Horizon Instant Clones and Active Directory Computer GPO’s.. There is just a little caveat with Instant Clones where the GPO's don't always seem to apply.. I’ve seen a couple of times people struggling with this especially when they are used work with Citrix PVS, MCS, VMware Linked Clones, persistent VDI's or anything that has a regular boot process.. So in this blog I will explain why this happens with Instant Clones and a way to cope with this. We seem to always need

Regularly I get questions about the flow when a user is getting external access and the relationship between the Unified Access Gateways, load balancers and the Connection servers. Especially because we sometimes need to deviate from the VMware Reference Architecture. This deviation could generate an error on the connection server. Most engineers cannot stand an error... they just want to eliminate it! (And of course, I praise them for it!) NuBut like many things in life, som

Buffer Overflow: [a] condition at an interface under which more input can be placed into a buffer or data holding area than the capacity allocated, With al little creativity and bending we also see this in a VDI environment, I name this a User Overflow: [a] condition at an environment under which more users try to be placed into a pool than the capacity allocated, Of course with VMware Horizon you can make the pools dynamic in size but you will be limited by the available har

Last week I was exposing my VMware Horizon environment externally. Of course I wanted the single sign on experience. So enrolled the Workspace One Access tennant, deployed the sync server.. configured directory sync, authentication rules, next Virtual Apps etc . On the connector SAML to required, configured SAML authenticator to Access, connector in Workspace One mode, deployed enrollment server, created TrueSSO template, configured TrueSSO, deployed UAGS etc etc and let the