by Tom Fenton | Jan 14, 2021 | ControlUp, Horizon, virtualization and cloud review, VMware, Win10
In this article I look at VMware’s latest release of Horizon – 2012 . In this release they remove the last vestigages of Linked Clones, have a sharper new interface and over 60 new REST API endpoints. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 14, 2021 | ControlUp, Horizon, virtualization and cloud review, VMware, Win10
In this article I upgrade my environment from Horizon 2006 to Horizon 2012 and go over the features in it. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud Review . Related Links: What’s New in Horizon 8 Version 2012 Hands on with VMware Horizon 8 (2006)...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 12, 2021 | ControlUp, virtualization and cloud review, Win10
In this article I show you how to set up a RDSH server, integrate it with VMware Horizon and how to deploy applications from it. I also give you a peek at how you can monitor published applications using ControlUp. Read the full article at Virtualization & Cloud...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 10, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, Win10
In this article I rank MS PowerToys. PowerToys are not really toys but more of productivity tools that allow you to do things like organize your Windows 10 desktop, do bulk renaming of files and resizing of photos. The beta version of PowerToys lets you mute the...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 4, 2021 | Tips, VMware, Win10
The other day I need to Download the Windows 10 ISO. When I went to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Microsoft wanted me to use the “Download tool” to get around by impersonating an iPad this I used Google Chrome and set...
by Tom Fenton | Jan 4, 2021 | virtualization and cloud review, Win10
In this article I discuss setting up and using MS Windows “Virtual Desktops” not VDI virtual desktops but something more like “Space” in Mac OS. MS virtual desktops are setup and managed using Task View. Read the full article at Virtualization...
by Tom Fenton | Dec 29, 2020 | PowerCLI, PowerShell, Tips, VMware
The other day I need to see a list of installed software displayed as a webpage so I hacked a script (sorry original author lost to time) the following script to display it as a web page, along with other system information. ## PowerShell script to list all...
by Tom Fenton | Dec 28, 2020 | PowerCLI, PowerShell, Tips, VMware
The other day I need to see the names of the processes using network ports so I created the following script to do just that! ## PowerShell script to list all the processes using network connections## Version 1.0 12/28/2020## Tom Fenton## # $netstat = netstat...
by Tom Fenton | Dec 23, 2020 | PowerCLI, PowerShell, Tips, VMware
This morning I need to shutdown all the VMs in a folder as it was Christmas eve. So I created the following script to do just that! ## PowerCLI clone off all VMs in a folder## Version 1.0 12/24/2020## Tom Fenton## ## Specify vCenter Server, vCenter Server...
by Tom Fenton | Dec 22, 2020 | PowerCLI, PowerShell, Tips, VMware
This morning I need to clone a couple dozen VMs to test a dHCI system so I created the following script to do just that! ### PowerCLI to create VMs## Version 1.0 12/20/2020## Tom Fenton## ## Specify vCenter Server, vCenter Server username and vCenter Server...