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VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) Vulnerability Alert!

If you are running VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) which comes from Workspace One known as Workspace One Access or in vRealize Automation (vRA), this is something you need to take note and action right now. The security advisories with a CVSSv3 rating of more than 9 is been release and it is best to update to the fixed version. Since this is used for SSO access and all many users will be leveraging this, to avoid serious impact it is best to apply the fixed at soonest. Refer to VMSA-2022-001 .

VMware Horizon 6 Bundle Licensing Confusion

There are some confusion out there on VMware Horizon 6 Bundle.  You can take a look at the available products that are in Horizon Standard, Advanced and Enterprise Edition https://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-view/compare. Here we will use the Horizon Enterprise bundle as an example as the products which are available in the Advanced Edition will be what we will be going through. All editions from the bundle except Horizon Standard (only CCU) comes in both Named Users (NU) and Concurrent Users (CCU) licensing.  However there are products in the bundle that has no way in doing a CCU licensing even if you have purchase the CCU licensing.  This is because the way it is used is an active connections or active user and not possible to be a concurrent connection method. Let's take for example: Horizon View, this can be in NU or CCU.  Reason is simple you can have a fixed number of users who will always access the virtual desktops, that will help with a NU licensin...