There are a few ways to preload the Omnissa Horizon client (formerly the VMware Horizon client) with a default Horizon Connection Server. One method is to deploy the Horizon prefs.txt file with the Horizon connection server. For more information about the prefs.txt file method, my blog post, Omnissa Horizon Client prefs.txt, goes into detail. Another…
There’s not a lot of official information about the prefs.txt file that the Omnissa Horizon client (formerly the VMware Horizon client) creates and uses. I’ve figured out that the prefs.txt text file is in XML format and is generated by the Horizon client, usually once the user changes a setting in the Horizon client. It…
With Microsoft Windows installations, there’s a hidden user profile called Default. Anything in that user profile is copied directly to any new user account that logs into the computer. It is a template for each user who logs onto that system. The default user profile is located C:\Users\Default When a user logs into a Windows…
On November 18th, 2024, the certificates that the Palo Alto User-ID agent and the Palo Alto Terminal Server agent use to communicate with a Palo Alto firewall will expire, causing all communication to fail. Palo Alto Networks has made new versions of the User-ID and TS agents with updated certificates that will expire on January…
The way I manage my email might seem a bit strange. Due to working in IT, I get lots of emails. Some emails need action, some are regular emails, and some are notifications I want to know about as soon as they happen. I feel like a normal person would make an Outlook rule to…
Usually, when you want to control the Windows Update settings, you create a GPO to manage the settings or tweak some registry entries. Both methods alter the registry values in the registry key To reset any custom Windows Update settings, I nuke out that registry key or reverse the GPO or both, and restart the…
Microsoft has stopped deploying the original version of Microsoft Teams (now called Microsoft Teams Classic) with new Microsoft 365 apps installs. I’ve been using New Microsoft Teams for quite a while now and I honestly can’t tell the difference between the two anymore. An issue I do have with New Teams is that it doesn’t…
With the release of geoSCOUT version 9.0 geoLOGIC has upgraded the geoSCOUT launcher. As part of the upgrade process to version 9.0, you should be upgrading the geoSCOUT launcher as geoSCOUT users will get a warning message stating that they need the new launcher. They can still use geoSCOUT even if the launcher isn’t upgraded…
Recently I needed to expand a disk on a Windows 10 VM and a Windows Server 2022 VM, but I couldn’t because the Recovery Partition was in the way. When searching for a way to do this I discovered that the internet is full of posts about simply deleting the Windows Recovery Partition. I am…
While I was looking into various ways to restore an ESXi config backup I came across a bug. If you read VMware’s documentation about how to restore an ESXi config backup (you can find that here) you will see that it is full of references saying the build numbers must match. The bug is that…
