Omnissa Horizon 8: Fast Track

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Course Overview

This course explains how and why we use Horizon 8 Virtual Desktops and Published Applications across platforms in On-Prem, Hybrid, and Cloud environments. This course is delivered by technical specialists with a view to understanding how we solve a broad range of business challenges using Omnissa Horizon 8. The first half of each day will be theory-based, while the second half of each day will be dedicated to labs. Please note that this course is not intended for entry-level students.

Who Should Attend

Administrators with 5 to 7 years of work experience

Course Objectives

    • Understand the role and function of all Horizon Components
    • Understand both Cloud and On-premises deployment Architecture options
    • Deploy and configure a Horizon Pod
    • Deplaying and configuring a Standard and Replica server
    • Adding a Capacity Provider
    • Licensing Options
    • Event Database configuration
    • Deploying and Configuring the Unified Access Gateway in a clustered infrastructure
    • Overview of Horizon Recording Services
    • Understanding Horizon Brokering requirements for on-premises and multi-site architectures
    • Global and local server load-balancing concepts
    • Configure Horizon Cloud Pod Architecture to solve high availability and scalability requirements.
    • Authentication Options with Omnissa Horizon
    • Configure a secure Single Sign-On solution using Omnissa Access
    • Federation overview of Access with Horizon
    • Federation overview of Access with Unified Access Gateway
    • Deploying and Configuring Horizon TrueSSO
    • Deploying and Configuring Enrollment Services
    • Omnissa Horizon Graphics
    • Configuration and Deployment overview
    • Omnissa Horizon session Protocols
    • Overview of Horizon Blast
    • Overview of PCoIP & PCoIP Ultra
    • Overview of RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol)
    • Horizon Administration Options
    • Image Management best practices for Full Clone and Instant Clone Desktop Pools
    • SysPrep and Clone Prep requirements
    • Deploying , Configuration and Maintenance options for Persistant and Non-persistant Desktop Pools
    • Deploying Configuration and Maintenance Options RDS Server farm
    • Horizon Linux Desktop Pool Image Management and Desktop Pool Deployment
    • Monitoring Options in the Horizon Admin Console
    • Administrative options using the LDS Database
    • App Volumes integration with Horizon

Course Outline

  • Omnissa Reference Architecture Overview
  • Horizon 8 Architecture Overview
  • Horizon Connection Server Overview
  • Horizon Recording Services Overview
  • Securing the Horizon Transport
  • Workspace ONE Integration with Horizon
  • Unified Access Gatway Overview
  • Horizon Brokering
  • Horizon Desktop Pool Administration
  • Horizon Linux Desktop Deployment
  • Horizon Authentication and Single-Sign On requirements
  • Cloud Pod Architecture
  • Horizon RDS Published Applications
  • Horizon Agent and Client Options
  • Horizon Protocols
  • Horizon Graphics
  • Horizon Administrative Tasks
  • ThinAPP Overview
  • Introduction & Architecture of App Volumes
  • Working with Application Packages
  • App Volumes On-Demand Delivery
  • App Volumes Advanced Configurations
  • Dynamic Environment Manager Architecture and Console Overview
  • Dynamic Environment Manager Advanced Configurations
  • Dynamic Environment Manager
  • Optional Components

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Class Dates & Times

Class times are listed Eastern time

This is a 5-day class

Retail Price: $6,000.00

BRM Price: $5,100.00

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 Register 03/23/2026 9:00AM - 7:00PM
 Register 04/20/2026 9:00AM - 7:00PM
 Register 07/27/2026 9:00AM - 7:00PM
 Register 09/21/2026 9:00AM - 7:00PM
 Register 12/14/2026 9:00AM - 7:00PM
 Register 01/27/2027 9:00AM - 7:00PM