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VMware Tools Repair or Change

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If you experience problems with mouse actions or enhanced graphics, there might be a VMware Tools issue in cause. There is simple fix by repairing VMware Tools installation. You can do a VMware Tools repair from the user interface of many VMware products, not only vSphere. The thing is that you can’t invoke the “repair” […]

VMware Workstation update – 9.0.1 released

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VMware Workstation update – version 9.0.1 – Maintenance release In this “maintenance” release we can see that few OS support has been added and some bug fixes has been issued as well. This release comes only after two and half months, Now the latest VMware Workstation update – release 9.0.1  is here. VMware Workstation 9.0 was released […]

Windows 8 RTM Downloads

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Windows 8 RTM download – 90 days trial Microsoft has released the RTM version of their latest OS for MDSN subscribers the 15th of august. You can read about the roll up schedule in my post here, with release for everyone is schedulled for October 26. If you’re not MSDN subscriber or Microsoft partner, you can […]

Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View

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Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View New book by Mr Mike Laverick and Mr Barry Coombs which treats VMware desktop virtualization technology. It’s a non profit projects by those two fellow bloggers, since the whole profit goes to UNICEF. I don’t think that I do have to introduce Mike Laverick (Elvis) to my readers […]

Desktop Virtualization VMware – CRBC cache

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Desktop Virtualization VMware with View Storage Accelerator (CRBC). The VMware View Storage Accelerator or Content Read Based Cache (CRBC) uses RAM on each host to cache common data blocs to avoid boot storms or lower the number of IOPs during recompose operations.  The amount of RAM to enable on the host is very reasonable and […]

How to Install VMware Horizon Application Manager in a lab – part3

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How to entitle Thinapped applications and Installation of Horizon Client. In this third part we will first do an some applications entitlements to an AD group which you should create (or you can use existing AD group), We will install the Horizon Agent onto a client system, and we also install a certificate in our client […]

Thinapp 4.7.2 release – new Horizon features introduced

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Thinapp Updated to 4.7.2 – brings relink –h command for Horizon and more. This is not an usual maintenance release of VMware Thinapp, but more closer integration with Horizon application manager. You could probably follow my 2 articles on installing Horizon Application manager in a Lab.  Those articles will grow up soon, when I found more […]

How-to install Horizon Application Manager in a lab

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Horizon Application Manager – The setup of the two appliances. I’ll try to show you the the installation and configuration steps for trying out a Horizon Application Manager 1.5. First of all, make sure that all your underlying architecture is corectly setup. That you got your DNS servers ready and operationnal, vSphere up and running […]

Thinapp Factory Released – Create ThinApp Packages Automatically

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Thinapp Factory Released as Fling (tech preview). This application makes me think of the future, sci-fi, where all is automated, but wait, it’s the present actually. It’s happenning right now at VMware…-:) VMware has always been at the edge of progress. They’re always creating those tools and applications which makes the life easier, and the Flings […]