Author: Arun PC

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman My rating: 3 of 5 stars The characters in the book are quite ordinary and so is the storyline. But when all of the elements come together, it forms a splendid cocktail of wit, suspense, and fun. The story is centered around Eleanor Oliphant, a loner with… Continue reading Spectacular finish! Witty narration. Easy read →

The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results by Gary Keller My rating: 5 of 5 stars Review in 3 words - "Pareto Principle on steroids".The book falls under the category of 'self help' and most ideas written in the book are clichéd. I promise everything you read in this book are already… Continue reading Book Review – The One Thing →

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am not sure whether this book can be tagged as 'entertaining' or 'informational'. Maybe both. Maybe neither of them. The book drives the point that our thoughts and decisions made from split-second impressions may actually be more relevant… Continue reading ‘Blink’ Review →

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 →