Category: Microsoft

  • VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Pools & Pool Groups

    VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Pools & Pool Groups

    My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to create a pool and how to add the pool to a pool group and entitle the group. Pools To create a pool you must have a published image. The pool will…

  • VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images

    VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Images

    My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – deployment. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to Add an Image and Publish the image. Images allows us to provide desktops and publish application to end-users in Azure. You can add images from the Azure Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Compute…

  • VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Deployment

    VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Deployment

    My previous blog explained the VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Prerequisites. In this blog, I will explain which steps you need to take to start the Horizon Cloud deployment. Getting started First, we will need to log in to the Horizon Universal Console. Once logged in you will see the Get Started page. Select Horizon…

  • VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen –  Prerequisites

    VMware Horizon Cloud Next-Gen – Prerequisites

    This blog post is part of a series of posts I will be creating regarding the Horizon Cloud Next-Gen deployment. In this post, I will explain the prerequisites for Horizon Cloud deployment. Coming posts in the series will have topics like image deployment, Pool creation, App Deployment, Dynamic Environment Manager integration, and maybe more. Prerequisites…

  • Impact of CIS Benchmarks on performance

    During a VMWare Horizon Cloud project, the customer had the following wishes. The workspace needed fast and secure. Security is almost always at the expense of performance. Because the customer wanted us to align with the CIS Level 1 benchmark for the Windows OS. We wanted to see what kind of impact the CIS benchmark…

  • About me

    My name is Niels Geursen and I work as an IT Architect. I started my career in the year 2000. I learned about IT challenges from small to enterprise companies in the past years. In all these years I also got the opportunity to educate myself by following courses and doing exams for Citrix, Microsoft, and…

  • Slow application start times VMware UEM and App-V

    When users need to wait for 60 seconds until they can interact with the application the user experience is impacted. We encountered this behaviour at a costumer and needed to troubleshoot this. To read more on how I found the problem by excluding antivirus and group policy settings see my guest blog post at Logit Blog  

  • App-V 5.0 registry import not working using dynamic config

    A few weeks ago I called my colleague Ryan Bijkerk of www.logitblog.com with the question can VDI tuning break App-V? This inspired him to write a nice article on how performance optimization van break App-V which can be found here. Within our company we are using VDI for desktops and App-V 5.0 for application virtualization.…