Have you applied or are you thinking about applying for vExpert? Starting June 12th Martin Micheelsen and I will be running the vExpert Candidates Open Office Hours again. This is an online zoom call where we discuss what it takes to become a vExpert but also where we can go… Continue reading
Some people who read release notes will have noticed that the last few version of Horizon have a api limit these days for the rest api’s. With soap being depracated and the q3 release of this year probably being the last that will have soap api in it these maximums… Continue reading
Have you ever dreamt about becoming a vExpert? When I became one in 2016 I had no idea what was needed and the vExpert Pro’s where not around yet. Several years ago the vExpert team setup this vExpert Pro program that is aimed at enabling hopefulls to be able to… Continue reading
Today at VMware Explore I have launched a new version of the Horizon Golden Image Deployment Tool aka hgidt. This new version is a complete rewrite of the old one as I moved the code base to Python. As base I used a converted framework of the old tool (using… Continue reading
In a previous post I described on how to configure the Horizon Event database using the REST API’s. In this post I will describe on how you can retreive those events using a script that I have created. To get the first few events is easy, just use the /external/v1/audit-events… Continue reading
For a long time I have been wanting to have some kind of portable lab but I had a few requirements that where limiting me: Not so long ago I got a newer laptop from ControlUp to replace my (not that old) annoying heat and noise generating Dell Lattitude 5401.… Continue reading
Intro Some of you might have seen previews on the socials but for the last few months I have been working hard on a GUI based tool to deploy golden images to VMware Horizon Instant Clone Desktop Pools and RDS Farms. This because who isn’t sick and tired of having… Continue reading
With the recent release of Horizon 8 build 2212 one of the new api calls available was that of getting and configuring the event data base. This time I will not use powershell but do everything from the Swagger page. First of all I the used url is /config/v1/event-database and… Continue reading
I have just added a page that lists the Horizon 8 2209 changes in the API’s. If you’re interested in the overall release notes, please see this link. Some of the changes that stand out are brand new calls related to Radius & SAML settings but also options to bind… Continue reading
With Horizon 8 2206 one of the new features is the fact that you can select a new amount of cpu’s and memory when deploying a new image. If you know me a but you might understand that I want to know how we can do this using the api’s.… Continue reading
