Hey everybody and welcome back to part 3 of this article series on Workspace ONE Access in combination with Microsoft Azure and VMware Horizon On-Premises and on Azure. In the last parts we have covered the general design and how to configure the Access appliances. In the second part we covered the load balancing part, which has been configured via VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer, including the cloning process of the Access Appliances and the changing of the FQDN. In this Episode, we will ensure, that we’re able to synchronise Active Directory users to our Workspace ONE Access appliance, t ..read more

Today I came across a new challenge, when it comes to VMware products running on Azure. A friend of mine pinged me and asked, if the latest Azure Marketplace template for vRealize Operations isn’t working anymore.  And for most of the people that know me, these are exactly the challenges I love to tackle and to find out what’s going wrong, so I decided to review and in case I found the issue / remediation task, write a blog about it! Table of Contents What is vRealize Operations Manager and why Azure? vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) is a monitoring and analytics platform for h ..read more

Hey everybody, it’s Patrick again with a new blog post on how to install and configure Workspace ONE Access On-Premises. Many of my customers and community friends have asked for support during the last weeks on how to get up and running with Workspace ONE Access in combination with a Microsoft Azure federation. There are some quite good community posts out there on how to configure this, but to get to the point to configure Workspace ONE Access to work with Azure (or to federate to Azure), you must install the Workspace ONE Access appliance on-premises, which might now always be too easy ..read more

On the 11th February 2022 I had the pleasure to attend the GeekSprech Podcast. Eric Berg, fellow MVP and Blogger / Podcaster is running this awesome format and invited me to be a guest in his show!  It was a real fun session where we have spoken about all things Azure Virtual Desktop and Horizon Cloud on Azure. We explained the differences and the advantages of VMware’s solution on top of Azure Virtual Desktop.  It was real fun and I’m already looking forward attending another session one day! Listen to the episode here:  ⁠⁠⁠GeekSprech Podcast · #69 - GeekSprech - VMware Hor ..read more

After a few years working on old hardware (self made PCs) running VMware ESXi it was getting time to upgrade the lab environment to be able to write blogs about VMware Horizon and Cloud Pod Architecture, as well as doing more advanced blogs on Azure migration scenarios in the future.  I researched a lot, which device could be a good fit to save space in my office, but providing great power for my testings. Finally I decided to go for Intel’s 11th generation of the “Next Unit of Computing”, in short NUC. I bought the Extreme Kit, which provides also possibilities to extend the setup with ..read more

Welcome back everyone to the next chapter of the Mastering Horizon Cloud on Azure article series.  In the past articles, I have shown you how to setup the Azure subscription, Resource Groups, networks and accounts as well as the creation of the first POD infrastructure on Azure.  In this article, we’re going to complete the setup by enabling the infrastructure to authenticate to the domain controller, that you should have in place on Azure or on-premises. In addition to that we will configure the Broker and will enable monitoring.  Workspace ONE Access 22.09 – Integration w ..read more

Welcome back to my article series on VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. In the previous articles, we have learned what is needed to prepare the infrastructure to be able to enroll new virtual desktop via the VMware Universal Console. We went through the initial Azure configuration and had a look on how to prepare the certificate for the UAG setup, which we will complete in this tutorial.  If you missed my previous articles, please find them hereafter: ArticleSeries Workspace ONE Access 22.09 – Integration with Horizon On-Premises Welcome to part 4 (actually 5) of the series ..read more

On the 11th February 2022 I had the pleasure to attend the GeekSprech Podcast. Eric Berg, fellow MVP and Blogger / Podcaster is running this awesome format and invited me to be a guest in his show!  It was a real fun session where we have spoken about all things Azure Virtual Desktop and Horizon Cloud on Azure. We explained the differences and the advantages of VMware’s solution on top of Azure Virtual Desktop.  It was real fun and I’m already looking forward attending another session one day! Listen to the episode here:  ⁠⁠⁠GeekSprech Podcast · #69 - GeekSprech - VMware Hor ..read more

After a few years working on old hardware (self made PCs) running VMware ESXi it was getting time to upgrade the lab environment to be able to write blogs about VMware Horizon and Cloud Pod Architecture, as well as doing more advanced blogs on Azure migration scenarios in the future.  I researched a lot, which device could be a good fit to save space in my office, but providing great power for my testings. Finally I decided to go for Intel’s 11th generation of the “Next Unit of Computing”, in short NUC. I bought the Extreme Kit, which provides also possibilities to extend the setup with ..read more

Welcome back everyone to the next chapter of the Mastering Horizon Cloud on Azure article series.  In the past articles, I have shown you how to setup the Azure subscription, Resource Groups, networks and accounts as well as the creation of the first POD infrastructure on Azure.  In this article, we’re going to complete the setup by enabling the infrastructure to authenticate to the domain controller, that you should have in place on Azure or on-premises. In addition to that we will configure the Broker and will enable monitoring.  Mastering VMware Horizon Cloud on Azure ..read more