Author: Arun PC

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was introduced to the ideas in the book during casual(and superficial) coffee or beer conversations with people who are generally not into reading. That actually got me interested. “What is so interesting about this book” is the reason… Continue reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari →

This policy is only a part of the Horizon Client 5.0 release. The idea is to have your company's custom error message. You could place the URL of your Helpdesk or instructions on filing a service request or helpline number or a link to the FAQ or anything else you wish. Please note this a… Continue reading Custom Error Text for Horizon Client →

This morning a customer contacted me regarding connection timeout issues while his end users are connecting to Manual Dedicated Desktops via Horizon Client. First thing I did is to check whether the status of his desktops is "Available". After which, I checked the Power Policies to find the desktops were not configured to be "Always… Continue reading Power Policies – Horizon Client Connection Timeout Issues →

I ve lost count on how many times I messed up but turns out i am not alone. Just last couple of weeks, 3 other folks reached out to me for help on their vIDM and Horizon integration. Troubleshooting various elements was laborious and time-consuming but I did notice patterns. Number#1 – Time synchronization This… Continue reading Top 5 ways to mess up your Workspace ONE (Identity Manager) with Horizon Implementation →

I had a customer had a Horizon 7.4 system was running perfectly fine for months and he started to get intermittent errors such as these on this Instant Clones and Linked Clones. Error for Linked Clones which says " The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship"… Continue reading Active Directory Errors for Linked Clones and Instant Clones →

Please note this is an over simplified version and I have not shown components such as vIDM Connector, Horizon Client, Connection Broker, VDI desktop or UAG separately. I ve made it as high level as possible. Thanks for visiting my blog!  

I recently upgraded by home lab from vCenter 6.5 to vCenter 6.7 and Horizon 7.4 for Horizon 7.5. But was stuck with the following error for few days and I almost started to regret my decision to upgrade. “Error during provisioning: Cloning of VM Win103 has failed: Fault type is SERVER_FAULT_FATAL - Runtime error: No… Continue reading VMware Horizon 7.5 Instant Clones throws errors with vCenter 6.7 →

One of the key features VMware User Environment Manager(UEM) and my personal favorite is Printer mapping. It allows you to map printers based on very granular conditions like: Client IP address User groups Environment variables Registry keys A good use case is the Location based printing where you can map printers on where you login… Continue reading VMware UEM – Mapping printers via Print Server and mapping Directly →

This is a book that I have avoided for 10 years. My extreme point of view that life is meaningless and insignificant kept me away from picking this book for so long. However when my friend @asifaslam recommended this book, despite my belief and past actions, I decided to give it a try this time.… Continue reading Man’s Search for Meaning →