Unlike XenDesktop, VMware View 5.0 does not natively package a remote support tool that leverages Microsoft’s Windows Remote Assistance to provide remote assistance for virtual desktops when an administrator needs to assist a user with
Retrieving a user’s virtual desktop information based on their Active Directory user name isn’t too difficult to do within the VMware View Administrator GUI as you can always click on the Desktops node under Inventory
I encountered an interesting issue last night while trying to migrate a user from a linked-clone desktop over to a full dedicated virtual desktop due to some software licensing restrictions and the following are the
Most of the VMware View 4.5 and 5.0 deployments I’ve been involved in usually include the use of headsets at some capacity and one of the requirements I’ve always come across in the past with
Although VMware provides a KB article on how to request and install a new SSL certificate for VMware View 5.0’s Security Server, sometimes I wished it there was a GUI available to do it because
I’ve been asked a few times as to what was the best way to adjust a VMware View linked-clone pool’s virtual desktops’ memory and I have to admit that I never really tested all the
I’ve always liked how there was a ThinApp-ed VMware vSphere Client 4.0 available for download as it was always handy to have but when I recently did a quick search for version 5.0, I noticed
It’s been a while since I’ve had to do any serious ThinApp work and even longer when it comes to Adobe Acrobat (not the reader). I recall attempting to ThinApp Adobe Acrobat 8 or 9
I’m not much of an operations administrator as most of my work are project based deployments so I always tell my clients that they’ll always know more about how to streamline tasks and manage their
One of the tasks I find myself doing quite a bit is creating new snapshots for a bunch of virtual machines a in a folder after a routine patch window and while using the vSphere
