Vembu recently added the capability to restore backups of your on-premises virtual machines to Azure. In this blog post, I want to explore the different use cases this capability brings and why you should care. Goodbye secondary datacenter, recovering to Microsoft Azure The most obvious use case is to use…
After recently having partnered with Vembu, they reached out if I wanted to check out and review their BDR suite for Microsoft 365. I have several mailboxes present in Exchange Online, and seeing as I regularly tinker in AzureAD as part of my Workspace ONE lab, a back-up or two…
Overview Over the years, I’ve had to deal with numerous installations of the NVIDIA licensing server, which is required in vGPU setups to provide licenses to the endpoints. While I haven’t had many issues with the releases since 2019, it never really felt right to install a Windows or Linux…
So you thought you and your security team would finally be best friends, as you’ve just deployed VMware’s Secure Email Gateway (SEGv2) to finally make Exchange ActiveSync a safer place.Only to find out that same security team ran an SSL Labs test which came back with a B. There goes…
Since the release of Horizon version 2006 it’s possible to upgrade your Connection Servers in parallel. Instead of upgrading them one by one, you can now upgrade all Connection Servers (up to a maximum of three pods) simultaneously. Which can save you a huge amount of (down)time! In this blog…
As I recently rebuilt some components in my lab I had to set up True SSO again as well. Seeing as I prefer being lazy over being tired I decided it was a good moment to give the True SSO Configuration Utility fling a spin.The fling won’t set up everything…
Even though we’re approaching the half way mark in October and the weather took a turn for the worst, at least in the Netherlands it did, it’s still a good moment to look back at September. As I’ve mentioned in my first post I already knew September would be a…
** Update December 2020 **The link to the KB article is working again. Last week a customer raised a support ticket who had an issue with their Connection Servers. They would end up with the VMware Horizon View Blast Secure Gateway service in a Paused state. This behavior occurred after…
Over a week ago VMware released Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) version 2006, which now follows the same versioning format as VMware Horizon and App Volumes. One of the things which got me really excited in this release is the added feature to manage ADMX-based computer settings. This means that any…
“My problem” A lot of my customers running VMware Horizon have been using NVIDIA GPU’s in their ESXi hosts leveraging vGPU to accelerate their virtual desktops, especially since they made the move to Windows 10. When using vGPU one of the requirements is the installation of a driver on the…