Jeramy Thompson

VMwareView.MOF Purpose: To create a WMI framework for querying agent variables created on a View Desktop. Details: The MOF allows you to query the following: ViewClient_Broker_DNS_Name ViewClient_Broker_DomainName ViewClient_Broker_Remote_IP_Address ViewClient_Broker_Tunneled ViewClient_Broker_URL ViewClient_Broker_UserName ViewClient_Client_ID ViewClient_Displays_Number ViewClient_Displays_Topology ViewClient_IP_Address ViewClient_Keyboard_KeyDelayToRepeat ViewClient_Keyboard_KeyRepeatRate ViewClient_Keyboard_Language ViewClient_Keyboard_Layout ViewClient_Keyboard_NumFuncKeys ViewClient_Keyboard_NumIndicators ViewClient_Keyboard_NumKeys ViewClient_Keyboard_ScanCodeMode ViewClient_Keyboard_SubType ViewClient_Keyboard_Type ViewClient_Language ViewClient_Launch_ID ViewClient_Launch_SessionType ViewClient_LoggedOn_Domainname ViewClient_LoggedOn_Username ViewClient_MAC_Address ViewClient_Machine_Domain ViewClient_Machine_Name ViewClient_Mouse_Identif...

In some instances you may want to get some information on the users that are logging in to the VM's. This is not easily accessible through View its self. So I have come up with a way get the information from the VM's themselves. First of all your going to need the MOF file i created in an earlier post here for the WMI queries. Install this into your parent image. You will also need the logon script , that runs at logon located here . And lastly a remote SQL database that will hold the data, I have taken the liberty of creating a script to create the database for you here. After running trough this, you will be able to query for users that logged in to a specific VM and find any additional information provided by the agent. So lets get started. Create a database with the script Open up Microsoft Management studio and connect to your database server, create a new database, and use the script to create a new table. Paste the contents of the script into a new q...

The purpose of this post is to show how you can query the "Volatile Environment" variables from the View agent to get WMI information. I though I would share what I have done to maybe help others in similar situations. Requirements: The requirements for this view environment is to allow client drive redirection for internal users and disable it for external users. The users are always in the same pool, and in this case we only have one connection server and one security server. Because this is a feature that is either on or off and no built in way to control this, the thought is that we can create a GPO that and run off a WMI query to determine if the users are inside the network or outside of the network and disable client drive redirection based on the IP. Lets Filter! So we can create a simple GPO to disable CDR , however we do not want this to happen internally so we need something to query off of. It would seam this would be an easy task however I ran into the f...