Welcome to part 4 (actually 5) of the series on how to integrate Workspace ONE Access with Microsoft Azure and Horizon resources on-premises and in the Azure cloud. In this smaller part of the series, we’re highlighting the integration of Horizon (on-premises) assignments to Workspace ONE Access, including the capability of using the Workspace ONE mode, which is a dedicated mode to redirect the authentication…
Workspace ONE Access 22.09 – Part 3.2 – Azure AD configuration
Table of Contents Configuring Azure Active Directory The final step of this part of the series is to enable the user to use the Azure Active Directory authentication. But before we can go ahead with the configuration let’s collect a few prerequisites that also validate a successful configuration so far. As stated above in the Design above, we must ensure that the user authentication request…
Workspace ONE Access 22.09 – Part 3.1 Configure Microsoft Azure as Third-Party IdP
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,…
Install and Configure a ROPS Cloud Proxy on Azure
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…
Workspace ONE Access – Load Balancing with NSX ALB
Hey everybody, it’s Patrick again with the second part of the series on how to setup Workspace ONE Access. In the last episode we covered, how to configure the Workspace ONE Access appliance and stopped at a point which is relevant for most production environments, enabling the Load Balancer in the environment. In this tutorial, we will have a look at NSX Advanced Load Balancer…
Workspace ONE Access 22.09 – Setup
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…
Guest speaker in GeekSprech Podcast
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…
Upgrading the Homelab with an Intel NUC 11 Extreme Kit
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…
Mastering VMware Horizon Cloud on Azure – Configuring Active Directory and Broker
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,…
Mastering VMware Horizon Cloud on Azure – Create the first POD
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…