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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
Lots of customers use VPN to access virtual desktops and apps instead of directly landing on an application proxy from the internet. One of them quizzed me on the merits and demerits of using VMware UAG versus Client VPN to access Horizon Desktops and Apps. Before doing a compare and contrast, the following are what… Continue reading Why use Unified Access Gateway(UAG) over Client VPN?
People love the simplicity and intuitiveness of the VMware Digital Workspace. But under the hood lies a suite of products to secure and provide that experience. Here are the most common questions i get from my customers: So what products power VMware Digital Workspace? What are their capabilities? Brian Madden even wrote a blog on… Continue reading VMware Digital Workspace – Under the hood
I lost count on how many times I ve been asked by an ADFS customer “Why VMware Identity Manager when I already have ADFS?” Since I ve hear it almost every week, I decided to pen it down. Here I go! VMware Identity Manager(vIDM) can do many things. It can be your primary IDP for… Continue reading Contrasting VMware Identity Manager with ADFS
One of my customers asked me yesterday what Client ID represents on the Horizon Administrator Console. My first reaction was to assume it was the MAC address of the Client device but quickly realized that was far from being true. I couldn’t find official documentation, so thought I ll write this one up. “Client ID… Continue reading VMware Horizon Client ID explained
I am delighted to publish on vmware.com on a new feature released for Horizon called VMware IP Transparency. Do check it out and let me know what you think! https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2017/11/vmware-client-ip-transparency-explained.html
Migrating to VDI from a traditional laptop/workstations world is like relocating to a new city. Lesser the baggage, easier it is. Migrating 1000s of applications deployed through SCCM (or any other tool) from laptop/workstations landscape to a VDI infrastructure is exactly that. You will first need to conduct few preliminary exercises to understand more about… Continue reading VDI Application Deployment Strategy
Integration with Symantec Multi-Factor Authentication Symantec Multi-Factor Authentication can be integrated with vIDM in two ways: via RADIUS using Enterprise Gateway via SAML using VIP Login service Limitations of RADIUS integration Integrating vIDM via RADIUS with Symantec Enterprise Gateway to use Security Code is seamless and straightforward. References below: http://pubs.vmware.com/vidm/topic/com.vmware.wsair-administration/GUID-79EF08F7-B2FD-4E85-A2A8-1FEA28DDD414.html https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.INFO3360.html Typical RADIUS integration involves… Continue reading Integrating VMware Identity Manager(vIDM) with Symantec VIP Push
Lately, I have been getting a lot of queries around sizing RDS servers for Horizon Applications. Though there is guidance around RDS sizing in the VMware Horizon 6 Reference Architecture Technical White Paper, there still seems to be lot of people requiring a simple tool do so. Page 22, 23 and Page 25 of the… Continue reading RDS Sizing for VMware Horizon Applications
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