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  • Dec 19 / 2019
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Horizon, UEM, VMware

Impact of CIS Benchmarks on performance

During a VMWare Horizon Cloud project, the customer had the following wishes:

  • The workspace needed to be fast
  • The workspace needed to be secure

The trick is to balance the security measures so that performance still is adequate enough for customer needs, without compromising security requirements.

“Security is almost always at the expense of performance”

The customer wanted us to align with the CIS Level 1 benchmark for the Windows OS. At that current time, we already invested a lot of time and energy in getting deeper into the CIS baselines for all current OS’es. We wanted to see what kind of impact the CIS benchmark had on the performance. In order to make de impact visible, we did a performance test with Login VSI in the VDI-Like-a-Pro labs.

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  • Dec 09 / 2019
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DaaS, Horizon, VMware

Customize Horizon DaaS User portal

During the installation of the VMware Horizon DaaS environment we often are getting the question if it is possible to customize the User portal. Because VMware Horizon DaaS consists of Linux based appliances the customization is not that straight forward. Below I will explain how you can customize the Logo and the Background image.

Prerequisites:

  • Logo with the following size: Width 236px and height 111px or smaller
  • Image format: PNG
  • Tool like WinSCP and Putty
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  • Jun 11 / 2019
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Horizon, UEM, Uncategorized, VMware

VMware UEM – Unable to browse AD groups in Conditions and Condition Sets

Within VMware UEM you are able to filter out settings based on conditions. These condition can be set directly on the config or by creating a condition set and attach the condition set on the config. Some examples of conditions are Endpoint IP Address, Environment Variables, Group Membership, IP Address and a lot more.

Problem

At a customer we experienced a very strange problem. Once starting the VMware UEM Management console and changing or creating a condition or condition set. We were not able to browse the AD when selecting the condition Group Membership. The browse button was grayed out and we got the following message: Browsing for groups is only available on domain-joined computers. So the strange part is: The machine is domain joined.

Group Membership Condition
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  • May 09 / 2019
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DaaS, DVS, UAG, VMware, vSphere

Horizon DaaS: Unable to start VMware UAG

The VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a virtual appliance primarily used to allow secure external access to your organization’s applications. These application can be native windows applications, software as a service (SaaS) applications, and desktops. VMware UAG is typically deployed in a DMZ. For more information see: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Unified-Access-Gateway/index.html

Problem

A while ago a customer had an issue with deploying the VMware Unified Access Gateway. The customer imported the OVA and did the necessary config to deploy the OVA. Once installed the OVA didn’t start and came back with a strange error message:

Cannot initialize property ‘gateway2’. Network ‘DAAS-01_BE’ has no associated network protocol profile.

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  • Mar 06 / 2017
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Citrix, Microsoft, Uncategorized, VMware

About me

My name is Niels Geursen and I work as a consultant at Login Consultants.

I started my career in the year 2000. The past 17 year I learned the IT challenges from small to enterprise companies. In all these years I also got the opportunity to educate myself by following courses and doing exams for Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. This let to the following certification: MCSE 2012, CCE-V, VCP6-DTM and a lot more.

My experience is mainly focusing on end-user computing however I am currently trying to get familiar with VMware Airwatch to get the hang on Enterprise Mobility Management.

Hope you have fun reading my Blog!

  • Mar 31 / 2016
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App-V, Microsoft, UEM, VMware

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