20 articles tagged “vmware”
Don't expand VPN, open RDP 3389, or disable MFA in a panic. COVID-19 forced mass remote work overnight, but there's a right way to handle it. Here's how to make sound EUC decisions under pressure.
If you're looking at WVD, here's my full walkthrough. Covers Windows 10 multi-session, FSLogix, MSIX app attach, and how to integrate WVD with your existing Citrix and VMware investments.
Part 2 of my passwordless series. Windows Hello, Authenticator, and FIDO2 aren't a suggestion anymore, they're a requirement. Here's the real-world deployment experience and technical depth.
This is Part 1 of my 2-part series on why now is the turning point for passwordless. If you're running a Microsoft environment, it's time to plan for Windows Hello, Authenticator, and FIDO2.
I contributed to Byte-Sized, a community-driven book on cloud design and architecture for Citrix, VMware, and Microsoft environments. Written by EUC practitioners, now on Amazon.
If you're building a VDI or DaaS environment, here's how to get the dependency layers, user experience, and security right across Citrix, VMware, and Azure Virtual Desktop.
Your EMM project will fail if you only focus on security and ignore user experience. Here's why consumer-level UX, converged ecosystems, and wearable readiness matter just as much as MDM and MAM.
If you want a weekly AD security group membership report emailed to your Citrix admins, here's a PowerShell script that does it automatically with Quest ActiveRoles.
I attended Brian Madden's Desktop Virtualization seminar and came away with some solid takeaways on XP end-of-life, VDI sprawl, and why the foundation matters most.
If you need to reset memory limits to Unlimited on all your VMs during a migration, this PowerCLI one-liner does it in bulk.
If your vMotion and Management VMkernel ports get swapped when you apply a Host Profile, you need to reorder the kernel port entries in the profile first. Here's the fix.
If Firefox is blowing out roaming profile storage quotas in XenApp, XenDesktop, or View, redirect the cache out of the user profile to a local path using profiles.ini.
If vMotion fails with 'The operation is not allowed in the current state', your ESX host is stuck in phantom maintenance mode. Restart mgmt-vmware and vmware-vpxa to clear it.
You don't need a dedicated web server to install PowerPath/VE via VMware Update Manager. Host the patch repository on your existing vCenter Tomcat instance instead.
Got an IP conflict and traced it to a MAC address in your VMware cluster? This PowerCLI one-liner finds the exact VM and NIC causing it across all your ESX hosts.
Here's how I build a clean VMware vSphere VM template for Server 2008 R2. Covers hardware config, OS settings, and the steps to get a reusable base image right.
If your P2V migration gets stuck in an endless 'PCI to PCI Bridge Detected' install loop, version 7 VMs create 32 bridges and you have to install them all. Or just disable pciBridge in the VMX.
Here are my favorite PowerCLI scripts for ESX admins. Start with vCheck, which emails you an automated daily health report every morning before you even sit down.
