Horizon View 6, Unified workspace, thin client questons
We are looking at a new installation of Horizon View 6 with 40 workstations. We would be putting in new thin clients. I went to the demo of Horizon View 6 last week and would love to use the unified...
View ArticleRedirection of a non-default printer with PCoIP connection
Hi, I have a general question with View 5.3If I am right, during a PCoIP session the default printer only is redirected to the View desktop. During a RDP session ALL printers are redirected to the View...
View ArticleThe administration of VDI Clients and Thin Clients - Sort out the mess?
Hi all!We can really see the benefits of using VDI clients rather then using traditional physical machines. I have been at several VDI workshops (VMware, Citrix, MS etc) and now we finally running a...
View ArticleView 5.3 not powering on dedicated view desktops
I just recently upgraded to View 5.3 from View 5.1. Everything is green and working normally in my dashboard. Prior to my upgrade to 5.3, when a view user tried to connect to their desktop and it was...
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View 5.2 linked clone pool w/persona management, 1 pool entitlement, one...
Because we are using Persona Management, we choose to use 1 pool entitlement and one session per user. We also refresh on logoff. This prevents persona management from failing on a second session if...
View ArticleView Client exit code without specifying "-unattended" or "-noninteractive"
I am using a powershell script that uses get-credential to prompt for credentials and then launches the view client with the "-username" and "-password" switches. (For various reasons) I don't want the...
View Article5.3 vs 5.3.1
We are currently on 5.1 and want to upgrade to 5.3.Looking online, the only difference between 5.3 and 5.3.1 is vSAN support. Can anyone confirm this?Since we don't need vSAN, I'm thinking of sticking...
View ArticleChange Block Tracking cannot be changed to false prior to recompose
Under ESXi 5.1 and View 5.2 we always disabled change block tracking on our master image before recompose per this...
View ArticleCBT enabled on linked clones at recompose
I've been seeing errors where space reclamation was failing on all my linked clone VMs. I tracked the problem down to the fact that CBT is enabled on all the linked clone VMs. However, it is not...
View ArticleLicense Consumption
Quick question.If I have VMWare View agent installed on a physical machine, when someone is logged on to that machine at the console, it shows in View Manager - Given that the user is at the console,...
View ArticleWhy should I install two connection servers?
Hi,I have to install a very small View environment (about 10-20 Users). Now I have installed one View Connection Server and connected it with one View Security Server (in DMZ) for remote access and...
View ArticleDesktops stuck at Deleting
Hi, Hoping someone can help. We have 1 pool with 100 desktops that has 20 desktops that are missing and 1 desktop that is stuck at deleting. Can someone advise why the desktop is stuck at deleting, can...
View ArticleLinked Clone Windows 7 VDI losing desktop icons
We've deployed Windows 7 32bit persistent linked clones in a VMWare View 4.5 environment and occasionally users will report that their desktop icons will disappear. The user profiles are redirected to...
View ArticleVDI sharing
HelloI have a licensing question.Company A has VDI (Horizon View Add-On).Company A has a small subsidiary company B.Is there any licensing violation if company B users connect to/use VDI of company A?...
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Creating Custom Policies in Horizon View Administrator
I have deployed a VMware horizon suite 5.3. i have created dedicated linked clones. Windows 7 Professional acting as a parent VM. Users are on both View Client as well as Thin clients. Now i want to...
View ArticleHow to get View pool desktop status
Hello All, I am looking for a PowerCLI script where I can define my pool name then get a total count of the status of the desktops in that pool. I have tried several searches that have led me no...
View ArticleInstalling Client on Ubuntu 14.04
Has anyone had any success getting the view client installed on a Ubuntu 14.04 x64 host? It's not in the canonical repo (it is in 12.04 x32) I can get the client installed by doing the following:...
View ArticleCould not find VC object of type VirtualMachine, and id (please check the...
I have a new replica that I am trying to recompose existing vms with. but some vms are giving this error and stays shut down Could not find VC object of type VirtualMachine, and id (please check the...
View ArticleVMware Horizon View : Select print to map
Hi everyone ! I would like to known if it's possible to select printer to map from the client computer.I want prevent mapping of some printers We have Vmware Hozrion 5.2 and user use client 5.4...
View ArticleRepeated RECONFIGUREDONE entries
I have a View 5.1 environment I inherited, running on vCenter & ESXi 5.1. For the most part everything is running ok, such as my link cloned/non-persistent pool can provision/destroy desktops...
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