Category Archives: Horizon View Utilities

Brain Surgery…one year out

Tomorrow is the one year Anniversary of my Brain Surgery at Johns Hopkins. It’s been a really hard year but I am proud of the progress and adjustments I have made. It’s been quite a ride 😁 I encourage anyone … Continue reading

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VMware Access Point Deployment Utility

A GUI wrapper for the VMware OVF tool, to easily deploy VMware Access Point Continue reading

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Add Restriction Tags to VMware Horizon 6 Hosted Applications

Background I have had several customers ask if it is possible to add restriction tags to Hosted Application pools in the same way they can be applied to desktop pools.    Restriction tags allow you to choose which connection server … Continue reading

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SyncFiles Utility

I actually wrote this utility a few months ago, but it was very useful for the customer I developed it for so I wanted to share it.   This utility was developed because a customer of mine was looking at … Continue reading

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VMware Horizon View AutoConnection Utility – UPDATE

 Updated Version 1.0: I have released a version 1.0 of the AutoConnection Utility with the following updates / fixes: Updates: Disable Shade Ability to enable / disable the “shade” for View Sessions by checking the “Disable Shade” option. This is the … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi as a Horizon View Client

How to use a Raspberry Pi as an endpoint for VMware Horizon View using View Open Client and Chromium for Blast / Workspace Access. Blog post in progress….  

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Horizon Mirage Settings Utility

In my new role I have been doing a lot of Horizon Mirage demonstrations.   Mirage is designed to run in the background and not affect end-user performance.   This is great for end-users,  while administrators are deploying base layer … Continue reading

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Horizon View Events Notifier

*Note:  The direct download and version information is available below There were some questions on my team regarding how to send emails based on events generated in the Horizon View EventsDB.  The Horizon View Events Database was first introduced with … Continue reading

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