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I recently had a requirement to build a non-persistent VMware View desktop pool that acted as if the linked-clone virtual desktops had static computer names with static IP addresses. The reason was that the vendor of a particular clinical application ties its licensing to both the computer name and its IP address. If they don’t …
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For the past year, my primary project at work has been to engineer, develop, and deploy a VMware View virtual desktop infrastructure for the hospital and its dozen off site locations. I realize that this parody video may be only funny to those who work with VDI solutions, but I just had to share. The …
I have a vendor with a web-based SAS service that requires a password encrypted .PFX certificate to be imported into the user’s Personal certificate store. For physical desktops, this is a one-time import procedure. But for VMware View VDI desktops that are non-persistent, users receive a new desktop every day and would thus have to …
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In my previous article “Using BgInfo with VMware View,” I discuss how to use Microsoft’s BgInfo utility within a VMware View desktop pool to write the following information to a user’s wallpaper: Username Physical and Virtual PC name Physical and Virtual IP address Physical and Virtual MAC address Example of BgInfo wallpaper for my VMware …
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VMware View Security Servers require an SSL certificate to be installed for mobile VMware View clients to function properly. It’s also a good practice. Chapter 7 of the VMware View 4.6 Installation manual attempts to document the procedure of how to export a certificate from a Windows 2008 IIS server and import it into a …
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