The latest release of VMware Horizon 7.11, VMware Horizon Client 5.3, and VMware Dynamic Environment Management 9.10 includes a multitude of offerings, from SAML authentication to new REST APIs; with the HTML5-driven Console as primary, better integrated help, and better visibility via dashboard; upgraded Horizon GPO bundle, and much more.

Horizon 7 SAML Authentication? with VMware Unified Access Gateway 3.8

1. Expand HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > Policies > Microsoft > Windows > WindowsUpdate > AU
2. Right click and add a the following keys (without the quotes):
   "NoAutoUpdate"=dword:00000000
"AUOptions"=dword:00000003
"AllowMUUpdateService"=dword:00000001
"IncludeRecommendedUpdates"=dword:00000001

wuauclt /detectnow /updatenow

The above mentioned command will work in all versions of Windows including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. But if you are using Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016, you can use UsoClient command which has more options than wuauclt. You can run UsoClient with the following switches:

StartScan – Start checking for updates

StartDownload – Start downloading updates

StartInstall – Start installing downloaded updates

RestartDevice – Restart Windows after updates are installed

ScanInstallWait – Check for updates, download available updates and install them

script:
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REM Download and Fully Install Windows Updates

usoclient ScanInstallWait
usoclient StartInstall

REM Wait 40 mins to allow all the installs to complete on Windows 10
timeout /T 2400

REM this command will need a local path to the file unless it is run from the same folder that contains it
ShutdownWithUpdates.exe /r /f

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Or Powershell
Install-Module PSWindowsUpdate
Get-WindowsUpdate
Install-WindowsUpdate

The latest Ubuntu 18.04 LTS point release is now available to download.

Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, which arrives a week later than planned due to a few last minute issue, serves as the penultimate point release in the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS release cycle.

As ever there’s not much that’s “new” per se. An Ubuntu point release is simply a freshly spun install .iso that features all of the OS fixes and improvements released to the OS since last install image was issued.

Or, to word it another way, point releases are a shortcut; a hop on point for new users. They still install the same OS that was released back in April 2018, but without the hassle of having to download the 100MBs of updates released to it since.

VMware Horizon 7 version 7.11 provides the following new features and enhancements. This information is grouped by installable component.

• Product Enhancements
• Horizon Connection Server On-Premises
• Horizon Agent for Linux
• Horizon Agent
• Horizon GPO Bundle
• Horizon Client
• Horizon 7 Cloud Connector
• Horizon 7 Deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS

For information about the issues that are resolved in this release, see Resolved Issues.

The new Linux 5.4 kernel brings a raft of notable changes and improvements to the fore, just like every kernel release does.

Linux 5.5 is now open for development, but Linus cautions that Thanksgiving (and his 3 kids) may slow him down

Linux Founder Linus Torvalds announced the Linux 5.4 release on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (lkml) saying: “Not a lot happened this last week, which is just how I like it.”

With 5.4 out the merge window for Linux 5.5 is now open. But Linus cautions that the American tradition of Thanksgiving may get in the way.

But what are the changes in this latest kernel update? Read on for a summary of key Linux 5.4 features and changes.

As many of you already know, Oracle Java requires logging in to an Oracle account to download most versions (all except Oracle Java 12). A while back I created Oracle Java 11 and 12 installer packages (based on the package by Web Upd8), and a PPA for Ubuntu and Linux Mint.