Using the Horizon 8 swagger page

A couple weeks back when Horizon 8 was released they also made us happy with the Swagger page to browse the rest api methods. One thing it lacks though is a way to easily authenticate to actually try them. There is an Authenticate button but I couldn’t find any information… Continue reading

[HorizonRestAPI] Trying some of those new funky Horizon 8 REST api’s

In my last post I promised to provide some examples of those new REST api’s in Horizon 8. A couple of things that I will show: Getting local sessions Sending a message Get machines Reset a machine I have changed how I run my scripts a bit in that I… Continue reading

Horizon 8 released: Moar api’s!!

So yesterday every VMware EUC person was going wild because Horizon 8 was released. I won’t go into all the stuf that’s new because plenty of other folks have already done that (love the parentless instant clones though!). So what exactly are the new things looking from the API perspective?… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for July 2020- Reach is back!

A couple of days late but I had  good excuse: I was away on a holiday. I needed it and enjoyed it and have a week left before I start work again. This month there was one new release and nine flings received an update. Overall it’s a EUC rich… Continue reading

[Horizon]Creating applications using PowerCLI

Something I didn’t handle previously was the creating of applications in Horizon. Since they are always hard wired to a farm or desktop it might happen that you need to re-create these so automation is preferred. When looking at the api call for creating an application I find that we… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for June 2020

And another month gone, for some the Summer Holidays have already started while others might have to wait a few weeks or so. This month there have been two new fling releases and seven received an update. New Releases Workspace ONE App Analyzer for macOS True SSO Configuration Utility Update… Continue reading

[HorizonRestAPI] Handling Instant Clone Administrator accounts

One of the options already available using the Horizon REST API‘s is working with Instant Clone Administrators. In total there are 5 API calls available and I will give an explanation for al 5 on how to use them. As you can see you’ll run all of them against /rest/config/v1/ic-domain-accounts.… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for May 2020

Another month, another monthly overview of the new and changed flings as published on https://flings.vmware.com/. There are three new flings and seven received an update. New flings: Linux Driver for Precision Clock Virtual Device Demo Appliance for Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Supernova – Accelerating Machine Learning Inference Update flings: VMware Appliance… Continue reading

[HorizonAPI] Getting started with the Horizon REST api

Until now all of my blogging about the Horizon api’s was about consuming the SOAP api using PowerCLI. Since a couple of releases Horizon also has a REST api and since 7.12 we are also able to change some settings using that. So now it’s time for me to dive… Continue reading

The VMware Labs flings monthly for April 2020

Another month down in the Corona quarantaine. That doesn’t mean that the engineers didn’t work on flings. More the opposite since I can’t remember having to go to page 2 on the site to see all of the new releases and updates. I see four new releases and nine updated… Continue reading