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Installing and Configuring VMware Horizon Application Manager Part 1
First of all, download the Application Manager and Connector virtual appliances from VMware’s download site. Get them added to your environment and turned on. You’ll be prompted for network and hostname information, you’ll then proceed to connect to the Application Manager using a web browser for the remainder of the configuration. Click here to find […]
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Converting VMware Horizon Application Manager OVA’s for Use in VMware Fusion
Both the Horizon Connector Virtual Appliance and the Horizon Service Virtual Appliance come packaged as OVA’s. Of which you know will not work natively within VMware Fusion. (Come on VMware… fix this!) So first, you must convert the OVA’s to VMX files, to do this; you need VMware’s OVFTOOL Once installed, its just a couple of commands […]
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Notes from ThinApp’ing the DropBox Client on Windows 7
So, when ThinApp’ing the DropBox client on Windows 7, I was able to come up with a couple tips. First, get dropbox downloaded on your ThinApp workstation. I have a snapshot of a VM that’s already run the pre-scan, so that I always have a fresh starting point when doing any ThinApp packaging. We’re then […]
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How to ThinApp the vSphere 5.1 vCenter Client for Windows 7
Creating a ThinApp package of the vSphere client is much like creating other ThinApp packages. Lets start by starting the ThinApp Setup Capture client and taking a pre-scan of the target system.
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