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Bulletproof WMS Auto-Discovery: Ditching CNAME for DNS SRV and DHCP Option Tags

Bulletproof WMS Auto-Discovery: Ditching CNAME for DNS SRV and DHCP Option Tags If you’ve been deploying Dell thin clients, you know that Wyse Management Suite (WMS) is the undisputed central nervous system of your EUC environment. But before we get to policy inheritances and firmware updates, we have to talk about step one: getting the clients to actually talk to the server right out of the box. Before diving into the auto-discovery configuration, let’s quickly recap your WMS architecture options to ensure you are routing clients to the right place: WMS Standard: This is your on-premises only solution. Keep in mind that Standard requires registration now, but it is completely free . WMS Pro: The enterprise tier, which is offered both as cloud and on-prem. Regardless of which tier you're running, you need a solid auto-discovery foundation. A lot of old documentation and community posts still talk about using CNAM...
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How to Deploy Wyse Management Suite (WMS) Standard in a vSphere Lab

How to Deploy Wyse Management Suite (WMS) Standard in a vSphere Lab If you are following along with my previous guides on building a VMware vSphere home lab, or if you are gearing up to deploy Dell Thin Clients in a corporate environment, you need a way to manage those endpoints. Dell's Wyse Management Suite (WMS) is the centralized command center for configuring, updating, and managing both ThinOS and Windows 11 IoT devices. Before we start building, it is important to understand how Dell offers this platform: WMS Pro (Paid): This is the enterprise-grade solution that offers subscription-based licensing. It can be deployed either fully on-premises or consumed as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application in the public cloud. WMS Standard (Free): This edition is completely free and supports small to medium deployments, but it is only available for on-premises deployment . Note that while the software is free, Dell does now require you to register for a...
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Building a low cost VMware vSphere Lab using VMware Workstation

So you want to build a home lab for testing or to help study for a exam but you don't have a large budget to do this. You are in luck with the use of VMware Workstation you can create a nested vSphere lab on a single piece of hardware even a laptop so you can take your lab with you. Below I am going to cover what is needed to create this lab and how to build the basic items required to have your lab up and working. This will be broken into 8 steps to complete the lab setup process. Step 1) What is needed to build your vSphere lab on VMware Workstation This section will cover everything you need to have ready to get started with your home lab including hardware and software.  Step 2) Plan and design your vSphere lab networking in VMware Workstation This section will cover how to setup the networking inside of VMware Workstation to allow the lab to communicate. Step 3) Plan and create a windows template in VMware Workstation This is part of making this lab a l...
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Understanding what solution to use for your user profiles on VDIs

Today I am going to talk about the design decision on how to manager your user profiles on VDIs. This topic has been evolving over the years as technology has made new solutions possible. The important thing to point out is out of all the solutions none of them are bad. It just depends on the use case you are working with as to what is the best fit. Below you will find 6 profile solutions and details about when to use each. Don't Use Any Solution - With this solution you chose to not do anything with the profiles. This means if you are running a non-persistent VDI when the VDI is refreshed all user data will be deleted. This has no real impact in a full persistent VDI environment. Recommended use case: Full Persistent VDI or Non-persistent VDI where you do not care if you do not retain user data. Horizon Persistent Disks - With this solution you redirect the user profile to a 2nd hard drive on the VDI. This allows you to be able to refresh the C drive of the VD...
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VMware Horizon 7.5 JMP Integrated Workflow

With the recent release of VMware Horizon 7.5 a new feature was added to the product. This Feature is called JMP Integrated Workflow. JMP is a marketing term used by VMware to mean Just-in-Time Management Platform and really this is just a combination of 3 products inside of VMware Horizon Enterprise. The 3 products are Instant Clones, App Volumes, and User Environment Manager. With the introduction of the workflow in Horizon 7.5 it adds a new HTML5 console for user centric management. This is VMware's solution to bringing all the solutions under a single console to define what the users workspace will be and automate the creation of that workspace. Recently VMware created a Quick Start Guide for using this new console if you are using the 3 products i listed above or are looking into using them i would highly recommend giving this guide a look over.
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Need Support for Windows 10 (1709) but still running Horizon View 6.x

As the title states you are wanting to run the new Windows 10 build 1709 in your VMware Horizon environment but are still running View 6.x. I got some good news for you VMware Horizon View 6.2.6 released on March 29th now supports 1709. I would like to point out if you can start looking to move to Horizon View 7.x as 6.x is end of general support on 06/19/2019. You can find find more information in the release notes listed here and you can download View 6.2.6 here .
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VMware App Volumes 2.12 and upgrade from 2.11 to 2.12

VMware Release Notes Release Notes What's New? The latest release of App Volumes includes many enhancements that improve end user login times, security, Microsoft Office support, and Windows 10 support. Performance improvements for faster user login and application launch Optimized handling of application registry hives by not blocking end-user login. Addressed a bug that caused the App Volumes agent to scan Appstacks and Writable Volumes before the Windows explorer shell is available. Integration with Active Directory You can manage application and writable volumes assignments across multiple Active Directory domains and forests. You can add multiple domain controllers that App Volumes Manager leverages to query Active Directory users, computers, groups, and OUs. You can move and retain application and writable volumes assignments even when Active Directory objects are moved out of an OU or Group. Security Enhancements By default, communication between App ...
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