VMware Logon Monitor
When rolling out a VDI solution (or really, anything that touches on the user experience), it's crucial to understand how the change might impact the users and to ensure that they are left with a good impression of the solution. They say that first impressions are most lasting, and the first impression that your users are going to see (for most solutions) is logon time. That means that it's crucial that your solution does not negatively impact logon times, as that will color the entire experience. So, how do you accurately measure it? Well, VMware released a Fling called Logon Monitor (and, it's now baked into the Horizon 7.2 agent). It's a tool that's sole purpose is to measure the logon process and to report on what's happening during a user logon. After it's installed, it logs (with excruciating detail) everything that occurs during a logon, storing the file in a default location of C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Logon Monitor\Logs It creates a fi...