Activating Cloud-Based GPOs with Workspace ONE UEM
What are Cloud-Based GPOs? When taking advantage of Windows 10 modern management, you are likely to encounter challenges with policy management. Common challenges include: • Increasing user mobility deconstructing the traditional workspace. • Multiple management tools, creating policy conflicts. • Figuring out how to push policies to domain-joined, Azure-joined, or even workgroup devices. • Lack of feature parity between MDM profile...
Drop-Shipping Windows Devices for VMware’s Virtual Customer Advisory Board: The User Experience
A couple of weeks ago, we concluded yet another successful EUC Customer Advisory Board (CAB) event featuring executive staff and thought leaders from 30+ influential companies. As expected, we had to pivot this year to a virtual set up instead of our original plans of being in the beautiful Napa Valley. The shift to virtual also forced us to get creative around the “experiential elements” at this annual event. And so, we chose to...
Retiring Horizon Client for UWP
Sometimes things just don’t work out. Microsoft launched the Metro-tiled version of Windows 10 with visions of apps that would run seamlessly on all Windows devices – including Windows Phones! VMware answered with Horizon Client for UWP. Since then, things have changed: Microsoft has dropped support for Office Mobile and acknowledged that customers want 32-bit apps. VMware is following Microsoft’s lead and dropping our Horizon Client...
Announcing the Updated VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture
The VMware EUC Technical Marketing team has been hard at work, and I am delighted to announce an update to the VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture. The Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon Reference Architecture provides a framework and guidance for architecting using VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Horizon 7, or VMware Horizon Cloud Service on Microsoft Azure, whether using cloud-based deployments or installing...
WWDC20 – Digging Out What Matters for Enterprise
Over the last few years, I’ve followed WWDC from afar, watching the video replays days after and relying on the crowdsourced community knowledge. This year was completely different, as I was able to be in the mix! Hat tip to Apple on a thoughtfully planned and well-executed virtual event. Yet, amid all the humor about memojis, the “crack marketing team,” and more, Apple gave us a HUGE number of new features for the enterprise. Here...
Managing Identity Preferences to Streamline Single Sign-On for macOS Revisited
I previously wrote about managing identity preferences to streamline single sign-on in macOS. At the time, VMware Workspace ONE UEM did not natively support the identity preference payload for credentials. The lack of native support forced admins to do some careful crafting with a custom settings payload to facilitate easier SSO for their end-users. Now with Workspace ONE UEM version 2005, Identity Preferences (and Certificate...
