Slow Windows Logon? Enable Verbose Messages

Slow Windows Logon? Enable Verbose Messages

Slow Logons can be a real pain.  I am in the business of trying to create as fantastic a user experience as possible, so a 2 minute logon is not a good start, especially if we are talking about a non-persistent VDI environment where every logon is an initial logon!

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VMware UEM script repository

VMware UEM script repository

The ability for EUC administrators to easily deploy scripts who may not have access to NETLOGON shares and group policy management can be tricky.  UEM provides an environment variable created by default pointing to a script repository in the Configuration share.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 3 NSX Installation

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 3 NSX Installation

Continuing from where we left off in part 2 the next step is to prepare the hosts. Host preparation simply means installing several VIBS to each of the hosts within the cluster to enable functionality such a distributed firewall, distributed routing and VXLAN.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 4 Deploying NSX Controllers

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 4 Deploying NSX Controllers

This part will cover deploying NSX Controllers to the environment. These are responsible for control plane information for all logical networks as well as maintaining VTEP, MAC and ARP tables.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 2 NSX Manager Initial Configuration

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 2 NSX Manager Initial Configuration

Following from Part 1 the NSX Manger virtual machine should now be running and accessible via the web interface. To begin the configuration login to the NSX Manager Virtual Appliance using the admin account.

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Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 1 Deploying NSX Manager

Deploying VMware NSX-V – Part 1 Deploying NSX Manager

In this series of blogs posts, I’m going to cover the deployment process of NSX-V and how to configure some of the components required to demonstrate functionality such as micro-segmentation, logical switching and distributed routing.

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Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event - CloudGen Firewalls

Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event - CloudGen Firewalls

Another big growth area from Barracuda is their CloudGen Firewalls, not just as traditional or NextGen firewalls, but because of their SD-WAN capabilities.

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Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event - Network Security

Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event - Network Security

Barracuda’s complete Security Platform orchestrates, monitors and protects across Users, Apps,Data, Sites and Devices, with more deployment options than ever.

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Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event - Email Security

Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event - Email Security

With the rapid adoption of Office 365, as well as need for compliance, data protection and an increase in security attacks, Barracuda have seen their number of customers on their Essential Platform increase.

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Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event

Barracuda Discover 18 Partner Event

I was fortunate enough recently to attend the EMEA Partner Event for Barracuda in Monte Carlo. In this blog series, I will summarise the key advancements that Barracuda have made and any announcements that were made at the event.

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Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers Tips

Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers Tips

I am currently using Ivanti Patch for Windows Servers to patch our virtual demonstration and test environment and thought I would share a short blog post around some of the common misconfigurations that can be made when setting up the automated patching

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vCenter High Availability

This feature was introduced with vCenter 6.5 and allows the vCenter Server Appliance to be clustered using an active/passive failover configuration.

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[VIDEO] Article 17 - Right to Erasure - GDPR with Veeam & ComputerWorld

[VIDEO] Article 17 - Right to Erasure - GDPR with Veeam & ComputerWorld

Barry and George discuss how your businesses contacts have 'the right to be forgotten'. But what does this mean for your business and importantly, your IT?

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[VIDEO] Accelerate your GDPR journey with Veeam & ComputerWorld

[VIDEO] Accelerate your GDPR journey with Veeam & ComputerWorld

In this video Barry and George discuss how Veeam are helping customers overcome the challenges of GDPR in regards to availability, resiliency of systems and disaster recovery.

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Manual install of NSX VIBs to ESXi Hosts

Manual install of NSX VIBs to ESXi Hosts

I’ve had a few problems (predominantly in labs) where the NSX host preparation stage has failed.  There can be a few reasons for this but I have found the most consistent way around this is to deploy the vibs manually.

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Installing vCenter 6.5 with an External Platform Services Controller – Part 2

Following on from part 1 this post will show the steps to configure the vCenter Server Appliance. The process is very similar except this time we are deploying the vCenter component.

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How to enable Session Collaboration in VMware Horizon 7.4

How to enable Session Collaboration in VMware Horizon 7.4

In a previous post I talked about the new session collaboration feature in VMware Horizon 7.4 and this post looks at how to enable this feature.

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