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View Client Device Detector

Some times, you need to know some things about devices that your users are connected to their virtual machines by them. For example, you need to Zero Client IP address for changing some configurations on that or need to its MAC address for changing some ACL on your switches and router. Some information storing in virtual machine registry under “Current User” registry hive when VMware View session is established. You can check them in virtual machine registry directly and use them for the above situations or other situations. I’ve developed an application that it can do it for you. VCD (View Client Device Detector) can retrieve the information from registry easily and even, your users can use that and send needed information to you by use “Copy to clipboard” feature.The application will run automatically on start-up and you can find its notify icon beside of Windows clock. It’s compatible with 32/64 bit of any Windows just you need to .Net Framework 2.0 and above. *Windows XP (Figure 1) – Windows 7 (Figure 2) Click to download I’ve developed that in 2012.

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VMware View 5.3 Features

Finally, VMware Horizon View 5.3 is available and you can download that from this link. Some new features are added to this product by VMware: 3D graphics with virtual dedicated graphics acceleration (vDGA) Improved Real-Time Audio-Video experience and performance Enhancement to mobility features in HTML5 and Unity Touch Windows 8.1 support VMware® ThinApp® 5.0 Combining View with VMware Horizon Mirage™ 4.3 Reduce storage with VMware Virtual San™ (VSAN) beta Support for Windows Server 2008 for virtual desktops View Agent Direct Connection (VADC) All of the features are awesome. You can deliver better experiences to your users by new graphic acceleration even for gaming, reduce your application management by ThinApp 5.0 that this new version supporting 64 bit applications. Use your local disk as SAN storage by vSAN and reduce cost. vSAN is introducde with vSphere 5.5. New plugin is very useful when you need to use a virtual desktop as dashboard, you can access to disjoined virtual desktop or login to more than one virtual desktops by that same as RDP sessions. I recommend, use this new version of View, if you have a plan for deploy virtual desktops. in new site

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Using Windows Server 2008 R2 as desktop operating system in View 5.3

Using Windows Server 2008 R2 as a desktop is a new feature in VMware Horizon View 5.3. I thought that the new feature is like Teradici Arch but It should be differrent. You able to connect to your virtual desktops in a terminal service pool via PCoIP by Teradici Arch. But it seems, you can connect to a Windows Server via PCoIP in new version of View. You need to enable that manually (I’ve read a same article on myvirtualcloud.net about hacking in VMware View 5.x ) on your View server, also you don’t have some features: Smart card SSO on Windows Server 2008 R2 Virtual printing (ThinPrint) Multimedia redirection (MMR) Unified Communications (UC) APIs Microsoft Lync 2013 SDK View Persona Management vCenter Operations Manager functionality Local-mode desktops As I know, View Agent can’t work in multi session mode, so I think, it’s another feature that not supported and you can not connect to a Window Server in multi session mode by View like RDP session.

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VMware products and their virtual hardware version

This table lists VMware products and their virtual hardware version: Virtual Hardware Version Products 10 ESXi 5.5 Fusion 6.x Workstation 10.x Player 6.x 9 ESXi 5.1 Fusion 5.x Workstation 9.x Player 5.x 8 ESXi 5.0 Fusion 4.x Workstation 8.x Player 4.x 7 ESXi/ESX 4.x Fusion 3.x Fusion 2.x Workstation 7.x Workstation 6.5.x Player 3.x Server 2.x 6 Workstation 6.0.x 4 ACE 2.x ESX 3.x Fusion 1.x Player 2.x 3 and 4 ACE 1.x Lab Manager 2.x Player 1.x Server 1.x Workstation 5.x Workstation 4.x 3 ESX 2.x GSX Server 3.x Consider this information about virtual hardware versions when dealing with related problems: A VMware product cannot power on a virtual machine with a virtual hardware version that is higher than what it supports.Note: If a virtual machine is created on a VMware product that supports a given virtual hardware version and is then migrated to a VMware product that does not support this level of virtual hardware, it does not power on. Consult the chart above. Virtual machines created by VMware products and versions located higher up in the chart cannot be powered on by products lower on the chart. A VMware product can power on a virtual machine with...

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Viewing the services registered with Single Sign-On

To obtain a list of services that are currently registered to SSO: Log into the vCenter Server as an administrator. Open a Windows Command Prompt. Navigate to the %Program Files%\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\ssolscli directory. Note: The default directory path to the ssolscli.cmd is C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\SSOServer\ssolscli. Run this command: SET JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre Note: Verify the path first. The listed path is default, but this can be C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\jre1 after multiple installs. To create a text file with a list of the services registered with SSO, run this command: ssolscli.cmd listServices https://FQDN:7444/lookupservice/sdk > c:\sso_services.txt To open the text file that contains the list of registered services, run this command:notepad c:\sso_services.txt You can see an example of the file:

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View Agent 5.1: Best Solution to Install Silently

I had a big problem on last week for upgrade my clients View Agent from 5.0 to 5.1. We are using Windows XP 64-bit form 2 years ago for our Call Center’s clients and I have a plan for upgrade my View servers from 5.1 to 5.2, so I have to upgrade View agents t0 5.1 for compatibility with View 5.2 at least. As you may know, this OS is not supporting by View agent officially but View agent 4.6, 5.0 and 5.1 can working on that properly. I had upgrade from 4.6 to 5.0 before but I faced with some issues in test step and wrote a script for upgrade agents completely silent. First Step, Prepare Client for View Agent Installation First, I want to mention that if you have plan for deploy the agent by SCCM, you should forget that, because it’s impossible. Anyway, you have 3 issues that you should resolve them to do silent installation: First step, copy your installation data and scripts to a shared folder with everyone access. Second step, if you have very secure environment like me that administrative share is disabled on that by your security manager, you have to enable it via registry....

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Install Android-x86 v4.0 RC1 on Oracle VirtualBox

Android-x86 is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance led by Google. Android supports ARM,MIPS and x86 platforms. Because Android has been developed on x86 platform, we can install it on some virtualization software as a virtual machine such as VMware Workstation, Oracle VirtualBox, QEMU and etc. In this post we will install Android x86 v4.0 RC1 (Latest version) on Oracle VirtualBox, we need to a source so please download it from this link: http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list Please download android-x86-4.0-RC1-eeepc.iso, because we can have network connectivity just on this. After download completed, run your VirtualBox and if you don’t have it, you can download it form this link: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Android-x86 Installation Steps 1. Click on New in VirtualBox for create a new virtual machine. 2. Enter your VM name and select OS type, you must select “Linux” for operating system and “Other Linux” for version. 3. Android need to 256 MB memory but 512 MB is recommended. 4. We need a medium for saving Android files on that, so like other virtual machines, we add a hard disk to it. 5. Select VHD hard disk type, I will explain about...