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Today, VMware released User Environment Manager 9.5. The main new feature is to be able to download Configuration Templates directly from the console. You can download User Environment Manager 9.5 from here As noted in the release notes these Configuration Templates are pre-configured Flex configuration files that are available for many …
Below are instructions to thinapp the VMware Horizon Client. (version 4.8.0 build 8547331) A Thinapped version of the VMware Horizon Client might be very useful in situations where you do not want to or cannot install software on your Windows PC. Build Capture & build machine Windows 10 (fully patched) …
To backup/restore the VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) with an embedded database using Veeam follow the below instructions Backup To backup the VCSA with Veeam, it’s important to understand that Veeam does not directly support Postgres SQL (VMware’s embedded DB). Instead, it’s optimal to perform backup in 2 parts: Part …
When using VMware vSphere 6.5 with self-signed certificates, I noticed that I could not upload files to a datastore. This is due to the fact that the self-signed certificate is not trusted in the browser you are using. To resolve the issue follow the below steps (See also https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147256): Go …
The client I am working at today has some questions and doubts on how to license Oracle in a VMware vSphere environment. Today I exchanged some emails with one of the people at the client who has to deal with licensing. He was asking me if the ESXi server where …
Since the future direction of VMware for the vCenter server is to supply vCenter only as a vCenter Server Appliance it is important to know how to backup and restore a VMware vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). There are several methods available to backup and restore a VMware vCenter Server appliance. …
To replace the App Volumes Manager SSL certificates, you should follow VMware KB article 2095969. However, there is one important step missing in the KB article: After having replaced the original svserver.crt and svserver.key files with your own certificate files you should also edit the nginx.conf file to use svserver.crt and …
With the introduction of VMware Horizon View a new Help Desk Tool was introduced (See one of my previous blog posts). The documentation for the Help Desk tool is very limited and does not clearly specify which permissions are needed to use this helpdesk tool. After consulting with VMware, I …
In a previous post, I explained how to do the initial install and configuration of UEM 9.2. This blog post explains the different components a bit further. UEM Profile Archive Share The UEM Profile Archive Share contains a subdirectory per user which stores all the UEM configuration data for this …
VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) offers personalisation and dynamic policy configuration across virtual, physical and cloud-based Windows desktop environments. It simplifies greatly the end-user profile management. VMware User Environment Manager does not require any special infrastructure. A couple of file shares, some group policies, a UEM Agent, a UEM management …