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<!--Generated by Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.156 (http://www.squarespace.com) on Sun, 19 May 2013 14:51:09 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Blog</title><subtitle>Blog</subtitle><id>http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/atom.xml"/><updated>2012-07-26T18:58:17Z</updated><generator uri="http://five.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace V5 Site Server v5.13.156 (http://www.squarespace.com)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>The Best thing about View 5.1</title><id>http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/2012/7/26/the-best-thing-about-view-51.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/2012/7/26/the-best-thing-about-view-51.html"/><author><name>Adam Cook</name></author><published>2012-07-26T18:53:54Z</published><updated>2012-07-26T18:53:54Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p><span class="full-image-float-left ssNonEditable"><span><img src="http://thickguythinapp.com/storage/post-images/Fullscreen.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1343329052393" alt="" /></span></span>The right click context menu on virtual desktops is quite possibly the most usefull new feature in the View 5.1 Admin interface redesign!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Certificates Who needs em?</title><category term="View"/><category term="View 5.0"/><category term="View client"/><id>http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/2012/3/28/certificates-who-needs-em.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/2012/3/28/certificates-who-needs-em.html"/><author><name>Adam Cook</name></author><published>2012-03-28T18:55:16Z</published><updated>2012-03-28T18:55:16Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>So you have upgraded to View 5.0 and like a lot of people you never installed a certificate in your connection broker(self-signed or otherwise) your users will now get a prompt every time they login.</p>
<p>&nbsp;<img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo6jlaEFC1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p>There are a few ways to handle this, you could get all secure and stuff by creating a self-signed certificate and follow the <a href="http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/view-50-installation.pdf" target="_blank">Directions</a>(for once) to install the cert on the connection broker.</p>
<p>Or you have 3 options to "work around" this new feature, Group Policy, Registry Keys, or modify your ThinApp.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Group Policy&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>If your client machines are part of your domain, you can use the .adm template located at&nbsp;</p>
<p>%programfiles%\vmware\VMware View\Server\extras\GroupPolicyFiles\vdm_client.adm&nbsp;</p>
<p>import that into a new GPO and under Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Classic Administrative Templates(ADM)\VMware View Client Configuration\Security Settings change the Certificate Verification Mode setting to "No Security"&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo6y9Pnid1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo72wikfy1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p>BTW the default is "Warn But Allow" this gives the prompt above. You can set it to "Full Security" and this will prevent the user from connecting to a connection broker with an invalid certificate.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Registry Settings</strong></p>
<p>Your client machines are not part of your domain you say? You can change add this setting to the registry HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\Vmware VDM\Client\Security add a String value with the name "CertCheckMode" and choose your value below</p>
<p>0 = No Security</p>
<p>1 = Warn But Allow&nbsp;</p>
<p>2 = Full Security</p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luo79oNs0n1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p><strong>ThinApp</strong></p>
<p>Your View Client is ThinApped you say? Well you need to add the following keys to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.txt</p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luvzun6fGE1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p>Once you rebuild the ThinApp your users will no longer see the prompt.&nbsp;</p>]]></content></entry><entry><title>Change Application Name in ThinApp Pop-Up</title><category term="Pacakge.ini"/><category term="ThinApp"/><category term="ThinApp"/><id>http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/2012/3/28/change-application-name-in-thinapp-pop-up.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://thickguythinapp.com/blog/2012/3/28/change-application-name-in-thinapp-pop-up.html"/><author><name>Adam Cook</name></author><published>2012-03-28T18:53:16Z</published><updated>2012-03-28T18:53:16Z</updated><content type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[<p>I have come across many people that use ThinApp to distribute web apps. Sometimes because they require a specific version of Java, or Internet Explorer, other time they do it just cuz they can (that is a valid reason when using ThinApp).&nbsp;</p>
<p>Well when you package IE the little ThinApp pop-up (that you are not allowed to turn off for "legal" reasons) shows "Internet Explorer" and not the name of the web app "Just Cuz I Can" &nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luh2b408FU1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p>So to change that to the web app name "Just Cuz I Can" you add a parameter in the entry point section of the Package.ini for that app called&nbsp;StatusBarDisplayName=Just Cuz I Can &nbsp;like in the picture below&nbsp;</p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luh1qnjIkO1qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p>Now once you rebuild you get this for the pop-up (that you can't remove)</p>
<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_luh26rx1Q01qzzsyj.jpg" /></p>
<p>Thanks to Coby Gurr and <a href="http://communities.vmware.com/people/Squidly%20Man">Dean Flaming</a> from VMware for the tip.&nbsp;</p>]]></content></entry></feed>