Adobe Flash Player End-of-Life and VMware Horizon
This post, Adobe Flash Player End-of-Life and VMware Horizon, originally appeared on the VMware Digital Workspace Tech Zone Blog. Adobe Flash Player will stop working on January 1, 2021. For those of you who have perhaps missed this, you can read about the Flash end-of-life on Adobe’s website here. This is potentially very important if you are a VMware Horizon 7 customer running a version of Horizon prior to 7.10. It is unlikely that...
Quickly Populate your Workspace ONE App Catalog with Enterprise App Repository
Let’s face it; Windows applications are hard! In fact, two-thirds of IT effort is spent getting these apps merely ready for the user, that is, packaging and testing these applications. The rest of the pain is shared in keeping these apps up-to-date or “patched.” Enterprises can have thousands of apps they need to push to users’ devices. However, most only patch less than 50 on a regular cadence. Also, awareness...
Smarter Groups – Workspace ONE Intelligence and Advanced Assignment Scoping for macOS Devices
The smart group functionality built into VMware Workspace ONE® UEM contains several types of assignment criteria that you can use when scoping the deployment of an application or configuration. These assignment criteria include organization groups, user groups, device platform or model, operating system versions, enrollment category, and others. However, what if you need to include some other assignment criteria to scope one of your...
VMware Advanced Monitoring for Horizon Powered by ControlUp
In a previous blog, I took a look at ControlUp and the ways VMware customers can purchase ControlUp licenses—to monitor Horizon environments—as add-ons to their Horizon licenses, directly from VMware. With ControlUp, Horizon customers can monitor their EUC environments in real time and proactively track the experiences of their end users. ControlUp’s guided troubleshooting and built-in actions can quickly remediate problems within...
Deploying Custom App Settings for On-Demand macOS Apps
With macOS and VMware Workspace ONE®, administrators have a lot of flexibility in precisely how native macOS applications are deployed and configured. Specific applications might use Privacy preference settings, require kernel extensions or system extensions, and require a custom settings profile for configuration. Administrators might choose to deploy certain apps automatically to assigned end-user devices or make them available...
Announcing The New Expert Talk: Community Series Show!
I’m happy to announce we are releasing a new show that we call Expert Talk: Community Series. In this show, we’ll dive deep into the minds of IT professionals from all around the world. We’ll learn what works, best practices and overall recipes for success in designing, deploying and managing VMware End-User Computing technology. This long-form show will be released as a video on YouTube and as a podcast so that you can tune-in...
