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Automatically Switch App Volumes Managers in Multi-Site Deployment

Posted on May 17, 2021May 17, 2021 by Nick Burton

Typically in a multi-site VDI scenario, you would have a global load balancer URL that would resolve to the App Volumes VIP in the local datacenter, preventing you from having to crack open the golden image each time you update your pools on each side. Sometimes having a global URL that only resolves to the […]

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Use the Same Image for Type 1 and Type 2 Imprivata Desktop Pools

Posted on May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 by Nick Burton

Imprivata is heavily used across many healthcare industries today due to their tap-and-go and EPCS functionalities. If you have used Imprivata before, you are likely aware of the difference between “Type 1” (Single User) and “Type 2” (Shared Kiosk) agents and workflows. When it comes to VDI, Type 1 is sometimes also paired with a […]

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Visualize Horizon Data with Power BI – Part 1: The Basics

Posted on April 28, 2021April 28, 2021 by Nick Burton

Rarely do you hear the terms “Horizon” and “Power BI” within the same sentence. Because Horizon basically pumps everything into the Events database, you can get some pretty cool statistics that can be visualized with Power BI. This includes user logins, reconnects, and even admin events like desktop restarts. I’m going to talk about these […]

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Bad True SSO Template Causes Horizon Launches to Fail

Posted on March 17, 2021March 17, 2021 by Nick Burton

Recently I ran into an issue where a misconfigured True SSO template caused Horizon launches to fail when launching through Workspace ONE Access. The error looked similar to this: The desktop agent logs were not reporting any errors whatsoever, and SAML was succeeding just fine because we were able to authenticate into the Connection Server. […]

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Load Balancing Kerberos with Workspace ONE Access

Posted on March 2, 2021March 2, 2021 by Nick Burton

There are a lot of good posts and documents on how to setup Kerberos on your Connectors to function appropriately with Workspace ONE Access. However, many of them are inaccurate when it comes to load balancing your Connectors for Kerberos. Load balancing is the only way to ensure your Kerberos authentication mechanism is highly available […]

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Workspace ONE Access – Duo RADIUS MFA without True SSO

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Nick Burton

So you went through the process of getting Workspace ONE Access setup for MFA/RADIUS authentication. You sign into WSO-A, get MFA’d, and you jump for joy! But when you launch a virtual app, you are prompted for your password again… The prompt is happening because RADIUS is not recognized as a valid method for password […]

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Streamline Browser and Adobe Updates in VDI Images

Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 by Nick Burton

Typically customers opt to place browsers and Adobe Reader in their VDI images due to the majority of their users utilizing them. Sometimes it is an extra half hour of work just to get them updated and often a step gets missed along the way. Just as you push the image to production, you realize […]

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List Horizon Desktop Pool To Global Entitlement Associations

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Nick Burton

As promised from my last post, here is the function for listing Desktop Pools to their associated Global Entitlements – Get-HVPoolsToGEs. Enjoy!

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List Horizon App to Global Entitlement Associations

Posted on December 24, 2020December 29, 2020 by Nick Burton

Sometimes it is handy to list all of the associations between Horizon Application Pools to Global Entitlements. Here is a quick function I wrote to do so! Introducing Get-HVAppsToGEs. You must first install the HVHelper Modules with PowerCLI, as well as a really cool module called Join-Object for performing SQL-like joins within two PowerShell arrays. […]

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Get VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Session Count Using PowerShell

Posted on April 24, 2020February 28, 2021 by Nick Burton

With the recent COVID-19 catastrophe, we had the need to automatically pull UAG session statistics and report them to a dashboard so we could keep track of our external Horizon users to ensure the 2k limit per UAG was not exceeded. What better way to automate this than a little PowerShell? VMware has some documentation […]

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