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VMware Horizon View Persona Management Gotcha!

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Remember back in the release of VMware View 5.0 (yes the name Horizon wasn't there then), I wrote an article on Deploy Persona Management Overview .  I also helped to answer one question in details here on Persona Management in the communities which now when I read it, I seems to know a lot I have forgotten already (am I aging). While doing a POC I gotten some difficulty in getting Persona Management to work even though policy was applied via Active Directory as well as even tried on the "master" VM used for creating the desktop pool.  Here is a KB on it. This is a screenshot on my customer environment apparently they have a global police in place to use only Local User Profiles so your persona will not work even settings it at domain policy or at local image policy.  I log into one of the View Desktop and run rsop.msc (you would need administrator rights), to see what policy is applied in the domain.  Some domain might take a bit of time up to 10mins to see t...

VMware Horizon Workspace Reviewer's Guide Gotcha!

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On my previous post on VMware Horizon Suite, in it I provided some of the articles and one of them is a Reviewer's Guide . Going through the guide you might hit some hiccups.  Here I have show some of the resolution to get around it. Before we start, I assume you would have done your VMware Horizon View 5.2 if you are keen to integrate with Horizon Workspace. An overview before configuring the vApp. Make sure you do have the resources stated to run the Horizon Workspace vApp.  Do not downsize the resources as this will results in unexpected errors. Prior to setup, make sure you have create all entry for Forward and Reverse DNS and as well as SMTP server. Create IP Pool under vSphere Client under Datacenter. On Page 30, for Base DN,m its best to put the domain that you are going to work with entitling the user.  If you use a Group, the user can only below within that group. On Page 31, include all the groups and OU where the users will be located.  Tha...