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The Future of VMware Updates: How to Survive the Broadcom Download Token Shift
In mid-2025, Broadcom retired VMware’s public update repositories, necessitating a shift to token-based authentication for updates via customer-specific URLs. To update VMware systems, users must obtain a Download Token from the Broadcom Support Portal and utilize a PowerShell script, ensuring all configurations are modernized for future security and functionality. Read more
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Mastering vdmadmin.exe Commands: The Ultimate Guide for Omnissa Horizon Administrators
This guide on vdmadmin.exe equips Omnissa Horizon administrators with essential skills for managing virtual desktop infrastructures. It covers command execution prerequisites, a comprehensive list of 56 commands, best practices, and troubleshooting tips to enhance administration efficiency. Mastering these commands ensures secure, scalable, and effective Horizon operations. Read more
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Ultimate Guide to lmvutil Commands for Omnissa Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture
This guide details managing an Omnissa Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA) using the lmvutil command-line tool. It explains 39 commands for configuring and managing pods, global entitlements, and security settings, enabling effective desktop and application delivery across data centers. The guide emphasizes best practices and troubleshooting techniques for successful implementation. Read more
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Omnissa OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) Build: 12943850210 Not supported on Windows 11 – 24H2!
The deployment of Horizon 2412 for a new customer involved installing Windows 11 24H2 and creating a master image. Several issues arose, including problems with removing Store Apps and Sysprep failing due to BitLocker. Workarounds were provided for these issues, but inherent problems remain with the OS version that need addressing. Read more
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Unlocking Secrets: A Guide to Windows Credential Manager in PowerShell
Redux of Previous Post that has been archived as I felt like I could do it more justice. Over the years I have done ton of different ways of dealing with Credentials in scripts, the whole just do Get-Credential and enter it every time I run the script but that is a great for one… Read more
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Commvault Cleanroom Recovery
As I kid, we always thought that the boogieman was lurking in the dark and under our bed, now days we have a boogieman lurking in the cyber world. That boogeyman is just waiting to pounce on your precious data and wreak havoc on your digital world. In a serous manner we all know that… Read more
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Login Enterprise Custom Session Metrics
Intro: Over the last few months, I have been spending a ton of time in Login Enterprise in my home lab doing testing of various things to come in the blog. Stay tuned for more to come with this as I have free time will write more on this as I progress deeper and deeper… Read more
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In-depth User Inactivity Analysis for VMware Horizon Environment
In running a Horizon Environment has your boss asked you to run a report of who is logging in or who has not logged in to the Horizon environment? Well guess what, to my knowledge there is no tool out there that will give you the ability to run a report of all users that… Read more
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Horizon Usage Report: Understanding your users, well maybe!
If you’re tired of not getting useful reports from Horizon, I’ve got good news for you! I’ve updated my PowerShell script to help you export pool connection data easily. You can get CSV or Excel reports, with or without Pivot Table. Check it out and make your life easier! Download the script [here]. Read more
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The greatest coding tool to date! GitHub Copilot long term review.
GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI. It offers a chat feature for custom commands, autocomplete for faster coding, code documentation, error fixing, and even code test generation. It’s not perfect, but a huge asset for boosting productivity, saving time, and well worth the investment. Read more
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