Hi All, first thanks for information provided. is there a way to automate this, ie, populating the shortcuts dynamically per user? (I guess you need to lookup member atrribute in ADSI for each application and then go to AD to see if user is a member of the group etc to create the shortcuts user has permission to launch) Any news whether this will be in the future updates? Thanks in advance.
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Re: Horizon 6 Published Apps Desktop Shortcuts
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Re: Changing password after expiration notice
I have opened a case with VMware at this point. The engineer assigned to the case claims they have other similar cases right now as well. He is sending it to development and they are testing to see if this is a bug in the VMware View Agent. I will post any updates I get.
Thanks
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Re: Moving/Migrating VDIs
If you are using linked clones, the short answer is no. We went thru this exercise last xmas. There was a ton of misleading documentation out there, some said you could do it, others said you could not. We tried for an entire weekend and in the end gave up.
Linked clones have their info stored with the composer, most likely installed on your current vCenter. Unless something has dramatically changed in 6.0, it won't work.
You'll need to re-create your pools, re-assign your users , then (if you're using them) re-attach the personal disks. Believe me, this was not a fun undertaking moving from one VC to another.
Here is my thread from Xmas time, it may help somewhat
Best Practice Help For Moving To New vCenter With Linked Clones
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
This is still an issue when upgrading to Horizon 6!
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Re: SmartCard reader as a pass-through device for VMware View 5.0 (NOT USED FOR AUTHENTICATION)
Great solution. It works!
Thanks.
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
Are you sure you're seeing the exact same issue with the 6.0 install? There was an explicit action put into the 6.0 installer to stop the v4v_broker_agent service during the upgrade process.
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
Yep.. vcops agent was running all the time.. and after i stopped it and reinstalled horizon, horizon works like a charm...
before I stopped it.. debug log file showed exactly the same error.. (that's how I came to this discussion..;-) )
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Re: Inconsistant Dual Monitors
Excellent - Please reply back if/when a resolution is found. Thank you!
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
Can you share the 6.0 installer upgrade log? If there's still an issue I want to make sure we fix it in the next release.
Should be either under c:\programdata\vmware\log or %TEMP%, vmmsi*.log and vminst*.log.
Thanks!
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
As mentioned, this is a known issue with the vcops for view component - while it's running, it's actively using files that are part of the connection server install. The 5.1 uninstall, unable to remove those files, schedules them for delete on reboot. It's a known issue that we created a KB article for, you need to stop the vcops service before upgrade as a workaround, and we plan to fix it by stopping the vcops service during the upgrade automatically in future releases.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2075114
[Edit: the KB article was not originally marked as public, link has been updated]
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
I managed to find the files... files dated from the 14th are containing the failed installation... files from the 15th containing the upgrade I just did and wend well..
Hope this shed some light..
Cheers,
Michel.
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Re: Slow Authentication using RADIUS 2FA and custom UPN suffixes
Is the 45 second delay before or after the subsequent username password prompt?
RADIUS delays can be caused by setting a non zero accounting port for a RADIUS server that doesn't support RADIUS accounting. If your RADIUS server does not support accounting on the specified port, set it to zero to disable it.
If the delay is after the username password prompt it is probably something else. Is mycompany.com resolvable in DNS? If you disable RADIUS authentication is UPN login also slow?
As Mike says, the logs should also help.
Mark
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View logins for external users to use specfic pool
I have two view servers. One for internal to the college and one for outside the college. In our environment we have 15 pools but I would like the external users to be assigned to one specific pool to get their non persistent desktop. The reason for this is that each room gets its own pool with a specific amount of machines. I don't want some logging in and taking a vm that is assigned to a class that is full at that time, and other reasons.
Thanks
Dave.
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Re: View logins for external users to use specfic pool
You should use tags - tag all internal-only pools with "internal" or similar, and mark your internal connection server with the same tag. Connections coming through your second server will find that pools with the "internal" tag are filtered out from the selection.
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Change icons for applications in Application Pools - Horizon View 6
Is it possible to change the icons used for an application in an application pool? I would like to perform some simple icon modifications. Horizon seems to grab the default icon from the application started on the RDS Server.
Single Security Server (no lb) and single Connection Server all running View 6.0
Along the same lines, I have a few applications published that properly display when logging in using the latest View Client (3.0). Icons appear correctly when testing from internal network. When testing from external networks (same URL and address as internal), only the names appear, no icons. I can manually launch the applications correctly by clicking in the general vicinity of where the icon "should be." Are there any specific firewall ports that need to be opened for icon display? I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling the View Client to no avail.
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Re: Upgrade View 5.1 to 5.1.3 or 5.3 failed
On first glance it looks like the installer should have worked by stopping the service, but the file replacements were definitely still blocked by something. I'll try and get a second opinion on what the issue is.
MSI (s) (4C:38) [13:13:19:237]: 10 application(s) had been reported to have files in use.
MSI (c) (A0:04) [13:13:19:238]: File In Use: -v4v_broker_agent_svc- Window could not be found. Process ID: 3488
MSI (c) (A0:04) [13:13:19:238]: File In Use: -v4v_broker_agent_cfg- Window could not be found. Process ID: 3104
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MSI (s) (4C:38) [13:13:19:240]: PROPERTY CHANGE: Adding VMServiceControl property. Its value is 'v4v_broker_agent;0;1'.
MSI (s) (4C:38) [13:13:19:240]: Doing action: VM_StopV4VBrokerAgentService
Action 13:13:19: VM_StopV4VBrokerAgentService.
Action start 13:13:19: VM_StopV4VBrokerAgentService.
MSI (s) (4C:34) [13:13:19:244]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\Windows\Installer\MSIDEF3.tmp, Entrypoint: VMServiceControl
Action ended 13:13:20: VM_StopV4VBrokerAgentService. Return value 1.
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Info 1603.The file C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\jre\lib\rt.jar is being held in use. Close that application and retry.
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Re: Slow Authentication using RADIUS 2FA and custom UPN suffixes
Indeed, digging through the log bundle, I see a timeout on accounting (strange that it only happens in this specific use case.)
I've attached the debug, I'm checking the accounting settings now
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Re: Slow Authentication using RADIUS 2FA and custom UPN suffixes
That was completely it! Set accounting port to 0 and I pass through instantly now.
Thanks for the help - I'm not going to dwell on why it wasn't an issue when not using the UPN
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Re: Horizon 6 Session Disconnects
Updating clients is not possible in all environments due to another issue:
Horizon View Client (2.3 and 3.0) Silently Dropped Support for 32-Bit Macs? (Core Solo, Core Duo)
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Re: Horizon 6 Session Disconnects
All of our production machines are using Dell/Wyse P25 zero clients with the latest firmware. They still disconnect after the 1200 minutes maximum timeout is reached.
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