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All Good Things Must Come To An End

After 47 years in Information Technology, including 35 years with Personal Computers, 24 years in software development, 10 years with mainframes, and 33 years in the End User Computing community,…
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Webster’s Rules

In my almost 47 years in the IT industry, I have developed the following rules to live by: Nothing is impossible for the one who doesn't have to do the…
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26 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Advice, Conclusions, and Lessons Learned

[Updated 8-Nov-2021]

If you have followed this series, we have learned a lot together. I started working on this series on 4-Apr-2021 and finished this, the last article, on 28-Jun-2021. Then, from 27-Aug-2021 through 29-Aug-2021, I updated all the articles for CVAD 2106 and Horizon 8 2106. I spent 706 hours learning, building, testing, playing around, destroying everything, rebuilding, retesting, playing around some more, writing, editing, and uploading the 1,334 pages and 1,633 screenshots to WordPress.

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My truth on EUC, with a touch of #DevOps

This post was originally posted on my blog at  https://www.cloudsparkle.be/2020-10-19-EUC-DevOps/ on October 19, 2020. See what I did there? Some sneaky clickbait. But just keep reading; I promise the rest…
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Notice of Site Cleanup

Recently I came across a broken link in one of my articles. I then found a Broken Link Checker tool for WordPress and ran it. The results left me speechless. After running for over 48 hours, the tool found almost 7,000 broken links. Most of the broken links are for images put on a server that must no longer exist. I have fixed almost 3,000 missing images and other broken links. There are still almost 4,000 missing images left to fix. Almost all the missing images are for old articles for products that Citrix and Microsoft no longer offer or support. I have decided that I don’t want to spend the days it will take to replace all the missing images in the articles for dead products.

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Learning the Basics of VMware Horizon 7.12 – Part 16 – Tearing Down the Horizon Lab

[Updated 4-Sep-2021]

Whew, that was a lot to cover in over 400 screenshots and 450 pages. After completing your Horizon testing, there is a step-by-step process to undo all the work done in Chapters 1 through 15. Others may prefer their order, but I am sure we all accomplish the same end goal, returning the lab to the pre-Horizon 7.12 state.

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Learning the Basics of VMware Horizon 7.12 – Part 13 -Dynamic Environment Manager Prep Work

[Updated 4-Sep-2021]

VMware Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM) is a multiple-purpose product. DEM can manage profiles and policies across virtual, physical, and cloud-based Windows desktops. DEM can also handle mappings such as drives, networks, and printers. DEM can also dynamically apply end-user policies and personalization based on a wide variety of conditions.

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Learning the Basics of VMware Horizon 7.12 – Part 12 – Using Update Manager with Instant Clones and Creating Additional Machines

[Updated 4-Sep-2021]

Shortly after learning VMware Horizon, I used Update Manager to apply VMware updates to my cluster. I was shocked when my hosts would never enter Maintenance Mode. I asked a question on Twitter about this issue, and a friend directed me to look at https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2144808.

That KB article explains the process to follow on how to use Update Manager with Instant Clones. Unfortunately, my Update Manager shows no updates of any kind to ESXi 6.7U3 since 27-Apr-2020. Even though there are no updates to apply, I’ll still walk through the process for you because it isn’t that hard.