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Recently I’ve been dealing with a patricianly strange and annoying issue with Windows 11 23H2 running on a VMware/Omissa Horizon VDI environment using Instant Clone Desktop Pools and FSLogix Profile Containers. Occasionally (sometimes multiple times a day) parts of the Continue reading Windows 11 23H2 Explorer/Shell Issues in Horizon
One of my jobs at work is managing and maintaining a VMware Horizon Horizon VDI environment for around 300 users. We use non-persistent floating desktop pools meaning each virtual desktop is created from a master virtual machine snapshot. This master Continue reading Automating VDI golden image patching with PowerShell and Chocolatey
Recently I was tasked with deploying a Layer 3 managed network switch alongside an existing pfSense firewall appliance for a relatively small network. As a quick bit of a background the network consisted of around 10 VLANs which were all Continue reading Configuring InterVLAN Routing with a Layer 3 Switch and pfSense
Recently I have been using the pre-release builds for the next upcoming Windows 10 feature update code named+ as “Redstone 4” due out sometime in March this year. Upon running some of the newer builds daily on both of my Continue reading Fixing Start Menu search in Windows 10 “Redstone 4” builds
Recently I went through the process of upgrading a VMware Horizon 6.1.1 VDI environment to 7.3.1 which was just released, and apart from some small teething issues with licensing during the upgrade due to a slight oversight in the VMware Continue reading VMware Horizon 7.3.x – Resolving “Protocol failure” status on VMs
Recently at work I was given the task of enabling SSL on a new SQL Server 2014 Reporting Services server instance. Previously when securing this sort of thing we would have grabbed an internal single name certificate dished out by Continue reading Enable SSL on SQL Server Reporting Services with a Wildcard Certificate
In a previous post regarding the latest batch of Cumulative Updates for Windows 10 I had mentioned that Microsoft were yet to enable WSUS support for Windows Server 2016 RTM. As it turns out WSUS will in fact pull down Continue reading WSUS Support for Windows Server 2016 RTM
As part of this months patch Tuesday Microsoft have released Cumulative Updates for Windows 10 version 1511 (KB3176493) and Windows 10/Server 2016 version 1607 (KB3176495) For those running these versions of Windows 10 you should get these brought down by Windows Update. Continue reading August 2016 Cumulative Updates for Windows 10 and Server 2016 Released
With the Windows 10 Anniversary Update now publicly available Microsoft have released a new set of Group Policy Administrative Templates for those already using Windows 10 within your organisations or looking to deploy it. If you are currently running the Windows Continue reading Administrative Templates for Windows 10 Anniversary Update Released
I Recently purchased some shiny new 256GB Samsung 850 PRO SSDs to replace my older boot drive setup in my desktop. After getting them installed and configured I took the opportunity to perform a fresh installation of Windows 10 Build Continue reading Install Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver on Windows 10