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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