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Workaround instructions to address CVE-202144228 in Horizon DaaS 9.0.x and 9.1.x
VMware has released new a critical security advisory, VMSA-2021-0028. This advisory is for multiple VMware products that use the popular open-source log4j Java logging component, which was discovered to have a critical vulnerability in it (CVE-2021-44228) This needs your immediate attention, not just at the VMware product level, but also for all other software in…
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Load Balancing UAG’s with NSX-T
Unified Access Gateway for end-user computing products and services needs high availability for Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon on-prem deployments. Unified Access Gateway appliances work with standard third-party load balancing solutions that are configured for HTTPS and also has an out-of-the-box High Availability solution. The out-of-the-box HA solution will reduce complexity and lower your TCO but it comes with the following…
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Domain-Join account Horizon DaaS 9.x
For Horizon DaaS the Tenant environment needs 2 types of domain service accounts. A domain bind account that is used to perform lookups in your AD domain and a domain join account that is used for joining computer accounts to the domain and performing Sysprep operations. The domain bind account is rather simpel. Just create…
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Replacing the Horizon Version Manager and Horizon Air Link appliances
With the release of Horizon DaaS 9, VMware introduced two new appliances the Horizon Version Manager (HVM) and the Horizon Air Link (HAL). The HVM is the automation appliance, based on Rundeck automation. The HAL is the resource manager for the management appliances. With the release of a new version of Horizon DaaS 9, these…
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Instant-Clone Clean-up
An instant-clone desktop pool is an automated desktop pool created from a golden image using the vmFork technology (called instant clone API) in vCenter Server. Instant clone technology replaces View Composer linked clone as the process for creating non-persistent desktops in Horizon. In addition to using the instant clone API from vCenter Server, Horizon also creates several types of internal…
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Horizon DaaS 9.0.1 upgrade
This week Horizon DaaS 9.0.1 hotfix has been released. With this release, Horizon DaaS is a step closer to aligning with Horizon Cloud 20.2.0. The hotfix is available for download on My VMware. This version includes the following: Enhanced installation functionality, including new automation for domain bind and compute assignment. Support for Horizon Agent Installer…
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Adding VMware Verify to VMware Workspace ONE Access
My colleague Arno Meijroos wrote a nice blog on “How to integrate Horizon DaaS 9.0 with Workspace ONE Access“. In extent on his blog, I want to explain how to add Vmware Verify for two-factor authentication (2FA). VMware Verify You can use the Verify app to secure login to VMware Workspace ONE and other apps. The Verify app…
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Customize Vmware Horizon DaaS User portal
Customizing the Horizon DaaS User portal with a custom logo is not an easy job. Below you will find the instruction to change the default logo and background for a custom one.
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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…
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How to add GPU enabled Cluster to Horizon DaaS
Lately, we see a lot of customers adding GPU cards to their ESXi hosts to support GPU-accelerated VDI’s. In this blog, I will explain how the GPU enabled cluster is added step by step to VMware Horizon DaaS.