Disable Lock Screen
Jan17

Disable Lock Screen

KB ID 0000965  Problem Note: This is for older versions of Windows Server, you may want to go to the following article. Windows – Disable the ‘Lock Screen’ Firstly, the lock screen is there for a valid security reason, so I would not advocate doing this on a production network. But on my test network when I’m jumping between multiple servers all the time, it’s annoying to have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE and tap the password...

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vSphere Disable Timeout
Apr19

vSphere Disable Timeout

KB ID 0001118  Problem One annoying thing about the vSphere web client is the fact it throws you out after a period of inactivity. Now I know there are straight forward security reasons for this, and on a production environment thats fine. But on my test network theres just me, sighing every few minutes and logging back in again. As the ‘Flash’ client is getting depreciated I’ll concentrate on the HTML5 client, but...

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Your vSphere Client Session Is No Longer Authenticated
Nov06

Your vSphere Client Session Is No Longer Authenticated

KB ID 0001711 Problem I updated my vCenter to 6.7.0.45100 yesterday, and since then every time I tried to login to the HTML5 web client, it authenticated, let me in, showed me the error (below), then kicked me out again? Solution I assumed, (wrongly) that the upgrade had overwritten the webclient.properties file that controls timeouts. this may be you problem, see the following article If my ‘fix’ does not work for you....

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VMware Horizon Machines Stuck ‘Customizing’
Sep18

VMware Horizon Machines Stuck ‘Customizing’

KB ID 0001595 Problem In all honesty there’s lots of reasons for this. I’ll cover the ones that have tripped me up, if you find some new ones feel free to post them below. Solutions Before continuing, the image needs to have the Horizon Agent installing within it, and it has to be the SAME version that your Composer and Connection servers are running, (or newer). Also your Horizon servers are connecting to VMware vCenter...

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VMware View  Connection Server  – Stop Session timeouts
Nov17

VMware View Connection Server – Stop Session timeouts

KB ID 0000605 Problem For security reasons, the VMware View Administrator will timeout after a short period of inactivity, and you will see the following. Server Error Your session has timed out. Please log in again. Click OK to be redirected to the login screen. However if you work in the console a lot, this can get quite annoying. Solution From within the View Administrator console > View Configuration > Global settings >...

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