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Horizon View 6.0 Part 1–What’s New and Improved
Back in April, VMware announced Horizon View 6.0 during a special End-User Computing webinar. The announcement heralded some major feature additions to the desktop virtualization suite including...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 2 – Prerequisites and System Requirements
In order to deliver virtual desktops to end users, a Horizon View environment requires multiple components working together in concert. Most of the components that Horizon View relies upon are VMware...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 3–Desktop Design Considerations
Whether it is Horizon View, XenDesktop, or some other package, the implementation of a virtual desktop environment requires a significant time investment during the design phase. If care isn’t taken,...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 4–Active Directory Configuration
When you build a Horizon View environment, the virtual desktops that users connect to run Windows. The servers that provide the virtual desktop infrastructure services run on Windows. So, as you can...
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Doing Things Because They Are HARD–My Virtual Design Master Experience
“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 5–SSL Certificates
SSL certificates are an important part of all Horizon View environments . They’re used to secure communications from client to server as well as between the various servers in the environment....
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 6–Configuring the Horizon View Service Accounts and...
Back in Part 4, I mentioned that Horizon View required up to a few service accounts to function properly. One of these accounts is for accessing vCenter to provision and manage the virtual machines...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 7–Installing View Composer
The last couple of posts have dealt with preparing the environment to install Horizon View 6.0. We’ve covered prerequisites, design considerations, preparing Active Directory, and even setting up the...
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#vBrownbag TechTalk at VMworld
The great folks who run #vBrownbag are hosting another series of Tech Talks at this year’s VMworld. These short talks are given in the Hang Space and feature community members presenting on topics...
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The Changing Face of EUC
The first section of Tuesday’s keynote was devoted to VMware’s End-User Computing division, and they shared their vision for the future of the market. And let me tell you – it’s game changing. {Note: I...
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Community Matters – A VMworld 2014 Retrospective
This year’s VMworld was the second that I had the pleasure of attending. Last year had been my first, and while I had a good time, I didn’t really know anyone or even know what I wanted to get out of...
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My VCDX Journey – One Year In
Last year, I set a rather challenging goal for myself – to become a VCDX within three years. I’m now one year in, and I wanted to update my progress. When I first set the goal, I had only just...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 8 – Installing The First Connection Server
Connection Servers are one of the most important components in a Horizon View environment. Connection Servers come in three flavors – the standard Connection Server, the Replica Connection Server, and...
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Horizon 6.0.1 Upgrade Experience
Lsat weekend, I upgraded my Horizon View environment to Horizon 6.0.1. I wanted to do this upgrade to take a look at the expanded printing support that VMware added in this minor release. The major...
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Simplifying VM Provisioning with PowerCLI and SQL
Virtualization has made server deployments easier, and putting a new server into production can be as easy as right-clicking on a template and selecting Deploy VM and applying a customization spec....
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Upcoming Presentation–The Passion of the Geek
On October 15th, I will be presenting at the Northeast Wisconsin chapter of the Association of Information Technology Professionals. The title of my presentation is “The Passion of the Geek: How to...
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Using PowerCLI to Prepare a VM for SQL Server
SQL Server is one of those applications where performance can be greatly impacted by the initial server configuration. One of the big contributing factors to this is storage configuration. If this...
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Horizon View 6.0 Part 9–Configuring Horizon View for the First Time
Now that the Connection Server and View Composer are installed, it’s time to configure the components to actually work together with vCenter to provision and manage desktop pools. Logging into View...
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A Whole Month of Blogging – Introduction to #NABLOWRIMO
November is known for a few things – Thanksgiving, the religious shopping holiday known as Black Friday, and National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). National Novel Writing Month is basically a novel...
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Simple Baked Mostaccioli–#vDM30in30
Sunday isn’t always the best day for writing a tech blog. So instead of trying to shoehorn a technical topic in on the weekend, I thought I would do Recipe Sundays where I share a recipe from my...
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