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Re: Multiple Keyboard Layouts In Horizon Pools

Lieven — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 06:19:35 GMT

Hi,

I have a similar situation were some users use a Belgian Dutch keyboard and other users use an English US keyboard layout.

STEP 1: look up the keyboard layout code (see http://kbdlayout.info/ )

In my case this is:

409 = English US
813 = Belgian Dutch (Period)

In your case this will be

409 = English US
c0c = Canadian French

STEP 2: Create AD groups per keyboard layout

Security group G_Keyb_409 containing all users requiring default US English Keyboard Layout
Security group G_Keyb_c0c containing all users requiring default Canadian French Keyboard Layout

STEP 3: Create condition sets in DEM

English US keyboard users
- User is a member of AD group "G_Keyb_409"
Canadian French keyboard users
- User is a member of AD group "G_Keyb_c0c"

STEP 4: create registry settings in DEM (User Environment - Registry settings)

Setting 1:
- Name: Keyboard Preload (409) English-US
- Condition Set: English US keyboard users
- Registry settings:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Immidio\Flex Profiles\ImportMarkers]
"Pre"=dword:86928386

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000409"
"2"="00000c0c"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Immidio\Flex Profiles\ImportMarkers]
"Post"=dword:464c582b

Setting 2:
- Name: Keyboard Preload (c0c) Canadian French
- Condition: Condition set "Canadian French keyboard users"
- Registry settings:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Immidio\Flex Profiles\ImportMarkers]
"Pre"=dword:86928386

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload]
"1"="00000c0c"
"2"="00000409"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Immidio\Flex Profiles\ImportMarkers]
"Post"=dword:464c582b

I also add another registry key for all users to display the option to the user in the taskbar to change the language bar

Name: Language bar docked in taskbar with text labels
Registry Settings:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Immidio\Flex Profiles\ImportMarkers]
"Pre"=dword:86928386

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\CTF\Langbar]
"ShowStatus"=dword:00000004
"Transparency"=dword:000000ff
"Label"=dword:00000001
"ExtraIconsOnMinimized"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Immidio\Flex Profiles\ImportMarkers]
"Post"=dword:464c582b

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Lieven

Re: Horizon 8 Enterprise - Sizing - Best CPU- Nutanix

Lieven — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 15:23:39 GMT

Hi Petros,

I have a very similar setup.

6 Nutanix nodes with (unfortunately) varying CPUs. The varying CPUs are due to the fact that there are more and more VDIs being used and therefore we needed to extend the capacity. We initially started with 3 nodes, later on added another node and two years ago another 2:

3 nodes with Xeon(R) E5-2650 v4 CPUs (24 cores, 2.2 GHz), 382 GB RAM and Tesla M10 GPUs
1 nodes with Xeon(R) Gold 6226 CPUs (24 cores, 2.7 GHz), 382 GB RAM and Tesla M10 GPUs
2 nodes with Xeon(R) Gold 6226R CPUs (32 cores, 2,9 GHz), 382 GB RAM and Tesla M10 GPUs

CVMs have 12 vCPUS and 36 GB RAM

Hypervisor: ESXi 7 U3

Horizon 8 2303, FSLogix, DEM, App Volumes

Non-persistent VDIs:

Pool1:
- Win 10
- 4 CPU
- 8 GB RAM
- GPU profile: grid_m10-1b
- Office 365 (including NS Teams), Adobe, 7-zip, Notepad++, other business software
- SentinelOne Antivirus
Pool2:
- Win 10
- 6 CPU
- 12 GB RAM
- GPU profile: grid_m10-1b
- Office 365 (including NS Teams), Adobe, 7-zip, Notepad++, other business software
- AutoCAD
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- SentinelOne Antivirus

Logon times = +/- 45 seconds during peak hours, +/- 30 seconds during off-peak hours

We are running +/- 110 VDIs concurrently (+ 15 spare, powered on VDIs).

90% of the VDIs is from Pool1, 10% of the VDIs is from Pool2

Due to the varying CPUs the load of the nodes is very different (varying from 50 to 90%). On the nodes with the best CPUs we can run +/- 28 VDIs.

The bottleneck for us currently is CPU load on our oldest Nutanix nodes (> 5 years old).

Cluster-wide disk latency = +/- 1ms (with peaks to +/- 2 ms)

Cluster-wide IOPS = +/- 10000 (with peaks to +/- 18000)

We are thinking of replacing the entire infrastructure with 6 new (identical) nodes:

NX-3155GN-G8 Nutanix nodes
2x Intel Xeon-Platinum 8360Y processors (2.4 GHz/ 36-core)
256 GB RAM
NVIDIA A16 GPU

This config should allow us to run +/- 140 concurrent VDI sessions without any problem with some room for growth.

Regards,

Lieven

Re: Horizon 8 Enterprise - Sizing - Best CPU- Nutanix

Lieven — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:45:07 GMT

Which vGPU profile are you using on your VDIs?

Are you using persistent or non-persistent VDIs?

How can I add a file to an Android's "Internal Storage/Documents" folder using Workspace One UEM

Lieven — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 08:37:23 GMT

I need to add a json file to the Android's "Internal Storage/Documents" folder using VMware Workspace One (The Android devices are registered to Workspace One UEM.)

How can I add this be done using Workspace One UEM?

Enable Apple Stagemanager on iPads

Lieven — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:26:20 GMT

Is there a way to enable Apple Stage Manager on iPads through Workspace One UEM?

Re: Cannot publish Android Private Apps on Workspace ONE UEM console

Lieven — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 14:41:53 GMT

Support Request # 22374573110 has been opened for this issue

Cannot publish Android Private Apps on Workspace ONE UEM console

Lieven — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:07:27 GMT

Anyone experiencing the same issue with VMware Workspace when trying to upload an Android Private App: Can't Publish app. Try again in a few minutes.

Same issue as explained in https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/79573 but we are using SaaS version 22.9.0.1 (2209)

Re: App Volumes 2111 - Apps on demand

Lieven — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 11:39:41 GMT

Hi,

I have updated both the App Volumes agent and App Volume Manager to version 4.7.0.64 (=version 2206) and can confirm that App Volumes On-Demand works fine now.

I have tested it with the application brackets (www.brackets.io). Desktop shortcuts, start menu shortcuts, context menus, ... are being created without the app stack being attached. Once a shortcut or a context menu is selected the actual app stack is being attached to the VDI.

During the app stack creation, I created the shortcut in c:\Users\Public\Desktop

The shortcut in the VDI looks like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\CloudVolumes\Agent\svservice.exe" app launch "appvolumes://launch/?app={36c9ee76-0aa3-4013-8034-61e78a820b29}&entry_point={46964696-0000-0000-0000-fe036b309d19}&name=Brackets"

Where 36c9ee76-0aa3-4013-8034-61e78a820b29 is the GUID of the application as visible in the App Volumes Manager

The entry_point 46964696-0000-0000-0000-fe036b309d19 has something to do with context menus, but I did not figure out yet where to get the value from

Once the application has been delivered (takes < 2 seconds), the shortcuts is changed to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Brackets\Brackets.exe"

Re: Privilege Elevation works but not really elevating

Lieven — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 10:58:15 GMT

Is there already some news on this.

I also need to perform a taskkill, but privilege elevation does not elevate enough

Re: App Volumes 2111 - Apps on demand

Lieven — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 10:07:03 GMT

Hi @julatoski

Any news on this?

Re: Restrict Remote Access through UAG - customise error message

Lieven — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 10:07:35 GMT

I raised a support ticket for this and according to support this is not possible. Therefore I raised a feature request https://wsone.ideas.aha.io/ideas/HZI-I-601

Restrict Remote Access through UAG - customise error message

Lieven — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:12:27 GMT

I want to disallow a number of users the right to access the VMware Horizon View environment from outside the corporate network. To do this I have multiple AD groups defined:

VDI_Allow_External_Access
- ==> contains users that are allowed external access through UAG
VDI_Exclude_External_Access
- ==> contains users that are not allowed external access through UAG
  - this group is not actually necessary but I add it just as a double check so each user is at least in one of the groups VDI_Allow_External_Access or VDI_Exclude_External_Access

VDI_Pool_01_Access
- ==> contains users that have access to Pool #01 (used in the pool entitlement)
VDI_Pool_02_Access
- ==> contains users that have access to Pool #02 (used in the pool entitlement)

A user which is not allowed to access the VMware Horizon View environment from outside the corporate network is a member of the following groups

VDI_Exclude_External_Access
VDI_Pool_0x_Access

A user which is allowed to access the VMware Horizon View environment from outside the corporate network is a member of the following groups

VDI_Include_External_Access
VDI_Pool_0x_Access

I have added the AD group VDI_Include_External_Access to the Remote Access, which allows all the members of this group to access the environment through the UAG servers which are only used to access the environment from outside the corporate environment

This configuration works fine and users that are not in the VDI_Include_External_Access group are not allowed to access the VDI environment from outside the corporate environment but can access it perfectly from inside the corporate environment.

However, the error message the user receives is "YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO USE THE SYSTEM". This message is actually not entirely true because the user is entitled to use the system, but only when the are accessing it from within the corporate environment.

QUESTION:

is it possible to customise this message or is this something I should ask as a feature request?

Re: App Volumes 2111 - Apps on demand

Lieven — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:15:33 GMT

Hi @julatoski

Yes, I am using folder redirection (through GPO).

When is the next release planned?

Regards,

Lieven

Re: iOS Boxer app crashes immediately

Lieven — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 20:07:57 GMT

We also see the same behaviour for some users

Graph the number of Horizon View (concurrent) sessions

Lieven — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 20:03:08 GMT

Is there something available to graph out the number of Horizon View (concurrent) sessions overtime for the current version of VMware Horizon?

Something comparable as what was available in the previously available Horizon Toolbox

Re: App Volumes 2111 - Apps on demand

Lieven — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 17:57:00 GMT

@julatoski

I tested again the App On Demand functionality and everything is working except for the desktop shortcut.

When I create appstacks I always copy the desired desktop shortcuts to C:\Users\Public\Desktop (=outside the user's profile). This works fine when using classic appstacks, but with on-demand apps the desktop shortcut does not appear on the desktop (it is however available in the startmenu).

So the question remains the same: How do I get desktop shortcuts when using Apps on demand

Re: App Volumes 2111 - Apps on demand

Lieven — Tue, 10 May 2022 04:57:51 GMT

@Micheal_A

This is getting really complicated.

Maybe a (non-marketing) step-by-step technical video would be useful. Looking at the comments in this thread, I am clearly not the only one not understanding how all this works.

The main problem seems to be related to shortcuts and how to create desktop shortcuts for on-demand apps, directly or through DEM.

Re: Chrome Cookies

Lieven — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 13:44:17 GMT

I have the Google Chrome configuration under Applications.

The URLs/usernames/passwords are saved under <AppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data (see also https://www.groovypost.com/howto/howto/look-up-or-back-up-google-chrome-saved-passwords/)

You might also want to include the following files:

<AppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data For Account
<AppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data For Account-journal
<AppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data-journal

Re: Chrome Cookies

Lieven — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 08:01:43 GMT

For me this works perfectly with the below config file:

[IncludeRegistryTrees]
HKCU\Software\Google

[IncludeFiles]
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\First Run
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Local State
<AppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\profile.pb
<AppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Login Data

[IncludeFolderTrees]
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

[ExcludeFolderTrees]
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\old_Cache_000
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Code Cache
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\GPUCache
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\IndexedDB
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Service Worker\CacheStorage
<LocalAppData>\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Service Worker\ScriptCache

Re: App Volumes 2111 - Apps on demand

Lieven — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 07:46:33 GMT

Hi @julatoski

Thank you for your response. It would be great to have a session regarding Apps on Demand.

I am especially interested in how Apps on Demand publishes desktop shortcuts, handles file type associations, ...

My time zone is UTC+2. You can schedule a session any day between 08h00 and 22h00 UTC+2