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VCP6-DTM Objective 4.3 – Troubleshoot connectivity between Horizon (with View) components

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VMware Desktop and Mobility certification exam continue today with a new topic. VCP6-DTM Objective 4.3 – Troubleshoot connectivity between Horizon (with View) components. All exam topics can be found on VCP6-DTM Study Guide page on this blog. Difficult to do a post on troubleshooting when having a lab deployment only and not a large scale […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 6.3 – Manage VMware Workspace Portal

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Horizon Workspace config and manage. Like other VMware products, Workspace is evolving. The curent release 2.1 shall be updated with upcoming Workspace one that we reported already and which will be integrated with Horizon 7 and Cloud Volumes 3.0. But today we (still) focusing on VMware certification exam for desktop and mobility: VCP6-DTM Objective 6.3 – […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 6.2 – Configure VMware Workspace Portal

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This is a follow-up post concerning VMware Workstation portal. We’ll going through another certification objective for VCP6-Desktop and mobility exam. VCP6-DTM Objective 6.2 – Configure VMware Workspace Portal. Another lesson towards VMware Desktop and Mobility VCP6 level certification exam. More Simple Deployment – Since the 2.1 release it’s a single VM packaged as OVA for easy deployment […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 6.1 – Install VMware Workspace Portal

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Today’s objective is VCP6-DTM Objective 6.1 – Install VMware Workspace Portal. Workspace Portal provides a central, integrated repository where end users can access company resources from a variety of endpoint devices. These resources can include software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, Windows applications, View desktops, RDS-hosted applications, ThinApp packages, and Citrix published applications. The end users can use to access their applications and content […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 3.5 – Configure RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) Application Pools

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Today’s post will be focused towards VMware VCP6-DTM (Desktop and Mobility) exam – VCP6-DTM Objective 3.5 – Configure RDSH (Remote Desktop Session Host) Application Pools. Previously called Microsoft Terminal Services pool, now RDSH pool. It’s one of the tree types of desktop pools that you can create in Horizon View. All exam topics will be […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize Desktop Images

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This lesson will teach us some tweaks on optimization of desktop images. VCP6-DTM Objective 3.4 – Build and Customize Desktop Images. VMware has an excellent utility (recently updated to support Windows 10) called VMware OS Optimization Utility. The tool can Analyze/Optimize locally, remote Analyze (not optimize). Has optimization history and rollback. It also can manage templates […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp applications and a ThinApp repository

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Today’s objective will dive into Thinapps. VCP6-DTM Objective 2.5 – Create ThinApp applications and a ThinApp repository. ThinApp has been historically one of the software pieces present in Horizon View as it allows the software distribution across your domain architecture with central management through View admin console. ThinApp creates virtualized applications. In Horizon implementation, these virtual packages […]

VCP6-DTM Objective 2.4 – Configure and Manage Security in Horizon (with View)

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Today’s post will focus on security – VCP6-DTM Objective 2.4 – Configure and Manage Security in Horizon (with View). We will have a look at certificates and certificate-based authentication as well as other security options like smart cards, RADIUS and configuration of SAML authenticator. We’re cleared more than half the objectives from the official VMware blueprint. […]

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