I recently received quite a few complaints that users were unable to change settings such as page sizes and colour on printers they used to be able to do so after they were migrated to
Changing a virtual machine’s port group via the vSphere Client GUI is simple enough as it’s just 6 clicks but what if you had to change this for 70 virtual machines? Working out the math
I ran into an interesting issue today in a vSphere 5 / ESXi 5.0 environment with a few virtual machines that had 2 port groups listed in the network section of the properties: What lead
I find that most often than not, I would always want to have the VMware View virtual desktops automatically connect USB devices that users plug into their physical desktops or thin-clients but as some of
Problem You have to deploy VMware View Client on a number of Windows XP workstations and installing the client manually is not an option because there are too many workstations in the environment. Then environment
One of the common issues that I find fellow professionals bring up when we’re talking about VMware View desktop customizations and deployments is that if the environment is trying to extend the life of their
I’m not sure why I never wrote a blog post about the items I typically go through when I have a VMware View virtual desktop deployment but as some of you may know, I’m currently
I haven’t really gotten in a chance in the past to document the process of packaging and streaming an application with VMware’s ThinApp and since I’m currently deploying a new VMware View environment and had
The client I’m currently working with is trying to extend the life of their desktops that was around since I was still attending university and slowly move to thin-clients as they require replacement and one
Update – February 22, 2012 As it turns out, the reason why the virtual machines were losing their network connectivity was because the following checkbox was checked: Allow the computer to turn off this device
