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Certificate question

February 18, 2018, 11:48 am
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Hi,

 

We a configuring a Horizon View in a closed network, no access to internet.

I was wondering about the certificate that is created under installation, as I understand this certificate should be replaced since this system will be production.

Do we need to create a own CA system within our domain for this ? Or is it possible to create a CSR and request some kind of certificate from a certificate vendor like godaddy.com ? or will this fails since we don`t have access to internet and it will then not be able to verify the chain ?

 

I don`t have much knowledge when it comes to certificates

 

Thanks for reply

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Datastore Clean-up Question

February 19, 2018, 9:32 am
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We are running Horizon View 7.0.1.

 

I was looking in a datastore that is exclusive to linked clones.  I noticed all these folders with log files for linked clones that no longer exist.  I checked the ADAM database and found no information on the machines.  Should I run an SviConfig cleanup or could I just delete the folders?  I should say that the machines do not show up in View Administrator.

 

Thanks for the help.

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os permissions for View 6.2 PowerCLI scripts

February 20, 2018, 3:45 am
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Hi,

 

I cannot find information about Windows os permissions nedded for running Horizon View 6.2 PowerCLI scripts.

 

When a user have Local Administrators permission it works well.

 

But when a user don't have Local Administrators permission it ends with following error:

 

View Server connect FAILED

    + CategoryInfo          : NotInstalled: (vmware.view.powershell.cmdlets.GetUser:GetUser) [Get-User], Exception

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Node Manager not running,vmware.view.powershell.cmdlets.GetUser

    + PSComputerName        : xxxxxxx

 

Does anybody know what minimum os permissions is needed for running Horizon View 6.2 PowerCLI scripts?

 

Thanks for any help.

Pavel

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viewdbchk on Horizon 7.3.2

February 20, 2018, 4:36 am
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We use viewdbchk every now and again to cleanup pools in Horizon, when the View Admin console is having issues doing such. Just like everyone else. However, since the move to 7.3.2, we can't seem to run it.

 

According to the release notes there was a change:

 

  • In Horizon 7 version 7.2 or later, the viewDBChk tool will not have access to vCenter or View Composer credentials and will prompt for this information when needed.

 

This is fine, we know what credentials to use. When we run the command though ("viewdbchk --removeMachine --machineName Xyz --noErrorCheck"), and are prompted for our service account password for vCenter (https://vcenter.fqdn:443/dsk) and for Composer (https://composer.fqdn:18443), when we enter, no characters show not even masked (this might be by design), and when we hit enter to confirm anyway, we are greeted with "ERROR: Cannot get password for user "service_account".

 

We know the password, we even tested it separately. Anything we can provide within the command differently perhaps?

 

Thanks in advance.

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Replicating appstack between DCs

February 20, 2018, 5:31 am
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I was reading documentation about appstacks and non-attachable storage, but I still don't really know how to move appstack between DCs. If I have FC storage then I can not present a lun to both datacentres that are on different continents with only IP connectivity.
So I guess that you need some storage which support array level replication over IP so you basically have non-attachable storage LUN that is in each DC presented from local array.

Other two options that comes to mind are:

- use some SW like veeam and replicate appstack VMDKs. Can you even replicate VMDKs that are not part of a VM ?

- use some VM where you do NFS export which is then mounted on vsphere in both DCs. This is questionable how would NFS datastore work over something like 200ms latency.

 

Any better ideas ?

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Using Windows Folder Redirection with View Persona

February 21, 2018, 2:40 pm
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Customer has an interesting design goal:

 

* keep view desktop profiles on one share, to manage things like outlook, user experience, etc.

* have their major folders point to the same location they use when the log into a normal desktop/laptop via the Home Drive feature in AD. Apparently they use both.

**** for example: Documents, Desktop, Favorites

 

Since the View Persona folder redirection GPO only works by using a UNC path they cannot use this without a TON of GPOs because there are probably 50 different home drive paths in place at the large customer. the View persona setting doesn't have a table to map users to different paths. however in windows AD folder redirection you can point it to the home drive letter is my understanding.

 

The idea is they log into any floating desktop (non-persistent) and they get the same desktop experience on all View Desktops and when they open Documents for example they see all the files they normally see from their laptop. These of course are just pointed to a network path, of which there are over 50 across all users.

 

Most people get the same drive letter (H:) but they all point to many places.

 

Can you exclude those folders from redirection in view persona GPO and then turn on folder redirection in windows setting instead? hopefully this makes sense.

 

what settings specifically would I enable for this?

 

this is latest version of horizon view

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Location based Printing based on AD group instead of IP

February 21, 2018, 2:46 pm
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Is it possible to manage what printers users see automatically in their view desktops where the following is true:

 

* floating desktops, all on same DHCP scope. cannot be organized into pools based on location on campus.

* 400+ printers are all over the place, multiple buildings, floors, wings.

* printer IPs are not organized by location

* printers would be have an AD object that is a mapped to a security group

* users who are a member of said security group would see that one, along with any others in their printer list upon logging into a random floating desktop. the idea is that users are typically in certain areas

* will printer default settings a user sets up be retained somehow? in persona profile share?

 

latest version of view.

 

thanks! trying to understand the location based printing document.

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"The External URL must not be load balanced." - What does it mean ?

February 21, 2018, 3:03 pm
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Based on all documentation you clearly CAN load balance view connection servers or security servers.

So why is there warning like:

 

and same for Blast or PCoIP protocols.

 

What is the true meaning or intention of this warning ?

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UAG external load balancing

February 21, 2018, 3:22 pm
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I'm reading this document: Load Balancing across VMware Unified Access Gateway Appliances and wondering what is practical difference between:

a) Method 3 - Multiple VIPs (from document)

 

b) Having two UAGs on different IPs with different FQDNs (A records), without any LB. Users are accessing it via CNAME so they still have single URL and a simple load balancing via round robin is performed.

 

 

Drawbacks for method B can be further eliminated by using e.g. f5 gtm or similar solution. Am I missing something here, but I really don't see use for LB (ltm like) in front of UAG.

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2-way forest trust - domain status error detected

February 22, 2018, 5:25 am
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I have established 2-way forest trust between existing forest containing view servers and everything and a second forest which hold some of the users.

However it seems to not be working.

 

 

In the logs I see the following error:

<WSWinAuthDomainTimerThread> [ws_winauth] OpenObject could not bind to LDAP://<my domain>/rootDSE (0x000000008007203B (A local error has occurred.))

 

 

The trust itself seems to work fine since I can login into Windows servers in either forest using credentials from another forest.

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Rebooting UAGs

February 23, 2018, 10:45 am
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We have 2 UAGs in our DMZ, that are connected to 2 connection brokers via an F5 LTM. Our understanding was a benefit of the UAGs vs. security servers, was that if users are connected using UAG, they will not get kicked if we have to restart one of the UAGs. Essentially if the connection is brokered, the UAG is out of the mix. But that's not what we're seeing. When we reboot a UAG, the person gets bounced. Is our expectation of this behavior incorrect?

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MultiScreen

February 27, 2018, 3:03 am
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Hello,

 

I'm using Horizon View 7.X and Windows Server 2016 RDS Host to publish session for my users.

I would know how to restrict Horizon Client to use only 1 monitor if users get 2+ monitors instead of using all monitors by default.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Benjamin.

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DPI Synchronization vs. Display Scaling

February 27, 2018, 5:34 pm
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Hello,

 

Seeing an interesting issue and I want to know if anyone is experiencing the same thing. In our environment we have a GPO that disables DPI Synchronization. When connecting from a high resolution device such as a Surface Book, everything looks really tiny. Even with Allow Display Scaling checked. If we toggle Display Scaling off and back on it scales as expected. If you log off and back on you again, need to toggle display scaling off and on. We are using the 4.7 Horizon Client and the 7.3.1 Horizon Agent. We notice this on both Windows 7 and Windows 10 VM's.

 

If we use DPI Synchronization alone it effects the performance of the VM. Mouse moves slower and graphics are not a crisp.

 

Thanks

 

Jeff

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Horizon Client for Windows v4.7 233MB download

February 28, 2018, 8:14 am
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Hi All and thanks in advance for your attention and time. 

 

My question is why is the Horizon Client 233MB's in size.  When extracted the actual 32 bit app is 1.4MB's.  What is the additional bloat that is included in this executable?  Am I in the clear just deploying the 1.4MB client to 32 bit and 64 bit systems?  Thanks again. 

 

-Alex

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Pool publish error after agent upgrade

March 1, 2018, 1:23 pm
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Current Infrastructure:

 

ESXi/vCenter: 6.0u2

Connection Server: 7.4

Agent: 7.1

Gold Image: Win7 sp1

 

When I upgraded Horizon 7.0.3 to to 7.4 the connection server will throw the timeout error below:

 

2018-03-01T13:09:22.765-08:00 ERROR (0E58-1788) <WFE-06> [WaitForInternalTemplateAction] Internal Template: vm-25841 customization appears to not have succeeded. State = error

2018-03-01T13:09:22.766-08:00 ERROR (0E58-1788) <WFE-06> [WaitForInternalTemplateAction] Hit an error in waiting for internal template com.vmware.vdi.logger.Logger.error(Logger.java:92)

com.vmware.daas.cloneprep.common.CPException: Internal Template: vm-25841 customization appears to not have succeeded. State = error

at com.vmware.daas.cloneprep.action.WaitForInternalTemplateAction.execute(WaitForInternalTemplateAction.java:132)

at com.vmware.daas.cloneprep.workflowengine.ActionLink.execute(ActionLink.java:216)

at com.vmware.daas.cloneprep.workflowengine.Task.executeNextAction(Task.java:478)

at com.vmware.daas.cloneprep.workflowengine.WorkflowEngine.processReadyQueue(WorkflowEngine.java:883)

at com.vmware.daas.cloneprep.workflowengine.WorkflowEngine.run(WorkflowEngine.java:651)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

 

I have installed every agent release on the gold image from 7.0.3 to 7.4 and anything > 7.1 will throw the publishing error.  Was there anything that changed from the 7.1 to 7.2 release that I am missing that could be causing this?   Any help would be appreciated.

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ThinPrint (Horizon 7) - Printing via PDF (Garbled Text)

March 2, 2018, 2:51 am
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Hi folks,

 

We recently deployed Windows 10 desktops and App Volumes/ UEM.

 

Give you an idea - linked clone/floating:

- Windows 10 Pro x64

- VMWare Tools 10.1.15.6677369

- Horizon Agent 7.4.0

 

The problem: A user prints off a PDF file using Thin Print and it sometimes (not always) prints it out as garbled text, other times, it will not print out the whole document, only parts.

 

I'm not sure why this is happening. I have generated Thin Print logs but am not sure what I'm looking for - perhaps someone here might know?

 

I've tried different versions of the agent/tools to no avail. Different PDF applications. Various printer settings.

 

Anyone come across this and could possibly advise on some things to try?

 

Many thanks,

Travis

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Youtube Performance Poll

March 2, 2018, 9:58 am
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Hey guys,

 

Simple question here, if I have a basic Horizon setup, say v7.2, should I be expected to be able to view Youtube videos at 480p?

 

No GPUs or anything, nothing fancy, just 1 or 2 vCPU and 2 GB RAM. I'm testing this and where I wouldn't necessarily expect it to play 720p+ videos very well I would have thought 480p is a reasonable expectation.

 

I've tested with PCoIP and Blast, Blast is slightly better and it's kinder watchable but I'd give it a 7/10 as they break up a fair bit. Maybe just a general poll in response as to what should be expected for this sort of setup would be useful.

 

Cheers,

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Multimonitor setup - USB Display Adapter

March 4, 2018, 10:02 am
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Hi,

 

My Windows 10 laptop currently has one HDMI-out port, which I use to connect one external monitor.  I also have a Dell USB 3.0 display adapter (470ABHH) that will allow me to connect a 2nd display via the laptop's USB 3.0 port.  The adapter works when using Windows.

 

The goal is to use dual monitor remoting via the Horizon Client on these external monitors.  When I log into the remote machine via Horizon client (but with USB display adapter disconnected, and thus 2nd external monitor disconnected), I can see dual remote display on my external HDMI-connected monitor and on my laptop screen.  So it works in this case.  However, when I log into the remote machine via Horizon client (but with USB display adapter connected, thus 2nd external monitor connected), the dual display stops working, and the desktop from the remote machine only displays on my laptop screen.  I want to see the remote desktops on my two external monitors, but it doesn't give me the option.  Am I doing something wrong, or does Horizon client not work with the USB display adapter? 

 

Will it work if I can turn off USB redirection for the adapter? 

 

I know this question was touched upon several years ago in thread: USB Display Adapters

 

But that was several years ago, and I wanted to know if this capability was added. 

 

Thank you..

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vDesktops Naming convension

October 16, 2017, 7:20 am
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Hi,

 

is there is away to customize linked clone vDesktops naming pattern , to make some  how manual

most of customer asking to map the User name to his Desktops ...as add his name to desktop name

any ideas ? is it possible

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Pool wont start provisioning

March 6, 2018, 2:03 pm
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Weird issue here. I've got a pool of floating linked clones that has been relatively stable. I wanted to create a test pool, so that I can test out changes to the golden image before pushing to the production pool. So I cloned the production pool. Everything is set identically. The pool is enabled but will not do anything. Nothing at all. I'm not getting any messages or errors in view or vcenter. Our company is 100% vdi and I've been doing this for several years, so not a newbie. All of the normal stuff has been checked. I've checked the logs on composer and I don't see anything that stands out or indicates that there is an issue. Meanwhile, other pools are working fine. Anyone have any idea of what might be causing this? We're on relatively current versions of everything.

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