At a customer this week, where BitLocker To Go is mandatory on Windows 7 machines, we discovered a problem encrypting USB memory sticks (flash drives). With the GPO settings at the customer, BitLocker To Go detects when a removable disk is plugged in to the machine, and prompts the user to either encrypt the drive or mount it read-only. When [...]

I was discussing something with one of my former colleagues a couple of days ago. He asked me what the impact was of running VMware View in an environment without HA. To be honest I am not a View SME, but I do know a thing or two about HA/vSphere in general. So the first thing that I mentioned was [...]

VMware has just released version 1.1 of the VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC). As I know many of my readers are actively working on View projects I thought it might be of interest for you. VMware Desktop Technical Marketing & TS Research Labs are jointly announcing the availability of VMware Desktop Reference Architecture Workload Simulator (RAWC) version 1.1.  [...]

Those doing planning might well be interested in these stats from a real-world ThinPrint deployment in respect of how well it compresses jobs. We started by testing a job typical of the users; a PDF consisting of scanned black and white pages. He we measured the data passed on the network for each of ThinPrint’s compression settings. Setting Job size [...]

How to identify which View Composer replicas are not in use and can be deleted

I had discussion with Richard Garsthagen during the Dutch VMUG about View/VDI related blogs, or better said the lack of. It appears that desktop is a topic bloggers are avoiding. The weird thing about it is that in the industry View is picking up more and more. Yes there are a couple of bloggers out there who are focussing onView [...]

For some weird reason I never picked up on this tool. Months ago Richard Garsthagen released a beta version of vAudit and recently it was updated to version 1.5. Why would you use vAudit? vAudit has been developed to show you when your VDI Users are logging in and for how long they are using the virtual desktop. I think [...]