vCloud Director 9.7 – Troubleshooting SMTP server settings
In this blog I will explain how you can troubleshoot vCloud Director 9.7 SMTP settings when you receive a Fail - Error while configuring the SMTP server. Before we start, I would like to explain the different log files vCloud Director uses: All the logs for a cell can...
Install public SSL certificates on vCloud Director 9.7
In this article I will explain how to install public SSL certificates on vCloud Director 9.7 appliances. VMware points to this article to create and import a Signed SSL Certificate to the vCloud Director environment. The difference here is that most of us already own...
DaaS UAG changes not working after some time
Hi, For DaaS you can deploy a UAG (Unified Access Gateway) if you need one. Once you do, you need to run the command "sudo /usr/local/desktone/scripts/apsetup.sh" from the tenant appliance. Basically your UAG is now configured and ready for use. But after some it...
PowerCLI – Identify and disconnect all CD drives from VMs
In this article I will explain how you can easily identify and disconnect connected CD drives from VM's on VMware vSphere using a simple PowerCLI command. Connected CD drives can cause issues when you for example want to remediate your VMware vSphere cluster using the...
VDI – Outlook OST caching on a User Profile Disk
Configuring the File Share for Storage of User Profile Disks: Create a file share with the following NTFS and Share permissions: In our case : \\fs01.uwsd.loc\UPD Share Permission User Account/Group Permission Everyone Full Control NTFS Permission User Account/Group...
New category for VMware vCloud Director
New category for VMware vCloud Director For the last eight months we've been writing articles about VMware Horizon DaaS, Powershell and PowerCLI . During this period we've received nice comments, good feedback, vExpert recognition and of course eternal fame. Because...
Horizon Daas: Change tenant appliance vlan
Horizon Daas - Change tenant appliance VLAN Some time ago we had to deliver multiple tenants and mixed up the VLAN's for our tenant appliances. And in a normal situation it is not possible to change the VLAN or IP settings for a set of tenant appliances. But I was...
Horizon DaaS: My image is giving up!
It has been a while since my last blog, but last week I had a nice one... It happened to me that I configured something in a image for our customer weeks ago to accomplish something and knowing that settings where not 100% correct. But on the way I forgot that I...
Horizon DaaS explained session on NLVMUG 2019
I'd like to share the presentation I gave at the Dutch VMware User Group (NLVMUG) on March 21st 2019. Note to non-Dutch viewers: This session was given in Dutch so it will be hard to follow if you're not speaking the language. If you have questions related to...
Horizon DaaS – Horizon view client – password change not working
When you start the horizon client and you get a popup to change your password, or the admin requires you to change the password. It could happen that you receive a message to input a valid username and password... If you enable the debug mode on you tenant appliance:...
VMware vExpert 2019!
Unfortunately I was away from my keyboard(s) the entire week, but today I'm back and happy to announce that Matthijs, Sander and myself have been rewarded with a VMware vExpert 2019 status last week! This is the first time we've received this reward and we are very...
Horizon DaaS Migration Tool
Hi, In this Blog post i will describe some more about the Fling Horizon Daas Migration Tool https://labs.vmware.com/flings/horizon-daas-migration-tool From the Fling website it's clear what this does Horizon DaaS Migration Tool helps migrating from earlier versions of...
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