Category: Virtulization
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How to Pull Logs from Horizon Edge Gateway
If you are running Horizon Cloud Control Plane, or even Horizon Edge gateway for On-premises Connection Servers and you are running into issues with the Edge Gateway you can pull logs without calling support. But its not very fun, So lets jump into this. Connect to the Edge Gateway console in vSphere or AOS. Log…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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As Built Report for VMware Universal Access Gateway (UAG)
Well, its official, I have completed all the Horizon on-premises As Built Reports now that this UAG report is published! You can get it live > AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.VMware.UAG (github.com) The other reports: As Built VMware Horizon > AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.VMware.Horizon (github.com) As Built VMware App Volumes > AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.VMware.AppVolumes (github.com) If you want to take a look at the…
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Unleashing the App Volumes 4.x API via Edge or Chrome, Empowering Operations with PowerShell
This article provides an updated guide on using Chrome or Edge for App Volumes APIs, including PowerShell, developer tools, and REST methods. It covers discovering, launching sessions, getting version data, working with online entities, and managing storage groups, applications, and user assignments. The author also shares insights on navigating the developer tools.
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As Built Report for VMware App Volumes updated for 2309
As promised over the last few weeks i have been working on the App Volumes report. Well, it’s finally done! You can get it live >>>>> AsBuiltReport/AsBuiltReport.VMware.AppVolumes (github.com) What is in the update, Well a bunch of things as you can imagine. It has been updated to support App Volumes 2309 and below. I have…
