I recently encountered a strange issue with VMware Horizon that resulted in a black screen presenting to the VDI users when they logged in. When you search for this issue, you will find a lot of information about various solutions to the blank screen issue. However, none of them solved the problem I was running…
Installing an SSL/TLS certificate on the VMware Horizon Connection Server is a common task. The whole process may feel daunting if you’ve never installed a certificate on the Horizon Connection Server. VMware Horizon has had a few names, and some of those old names are still present at its core. VMware Horizon was originally called…
Installing your own certificate is one of the first things you’ll need to do when setting up the VMware Unified Access Gateway appliance. In this post, I will detail step-by-step how to install a certificate on the VMware UAG. Prerequisites The Process
You usually want to connect VMware Horizon directly to VMware vCenter, but it can make sense to leave them disconnected from each other in some situations. In this post, I’ll show you step-by-step how to install the VMware Horizon Agent without using the VMware vCenter integration. You can do this on persistent VDIs and Physical…
I’m a big fan of using copy paste as it helps me reduce typos and allows me to paste links or other information quickly between systems. Previously I wrote a post that covers how to enable copy paste with VMRC (VMware Remote Console) however that’s not super useful for the users that are using VMware…
In this post, I will detail step-by-step how to install the VMware Horizon GPO templates. Technically speaking you can fully use VMware Horizon without any of the GPO templates however there are a lot of useful settings in them that you can configure. Before installing the Horizon GPO templates I recommend you create a Central…
In this post I’ll show you step-by-step how to install the VMware Horizon Connection Server on-premises specifically version 2303 (other versions will follow a very similar process). Prerequisites The Process
VMware Horizon’s web portal has a decent appearance out of the box. However, I wanted to customize it to make it look like my own. If you have a customized login background on your Microsoft 365, it could be beneficial to create a consistent end-user experience by making them look similar. I couldn’t find any…
I needed to get geoSCOUT working in VMware Horizon but geoLOGIC doesn’t officially support publishing geoSCOUT to systems like Citrix, RD Web, and Horizon. Due to the way that geoSCOUT works you can’t just launch the geoSCOUT exe and have it work. On the first launch a user would normally run the geoSCOUT Desktop_Build_NonAdmin_v8.exe installer…
