Course
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Horizon 8: Administration and Operations
Streamline Horizon 8 Administration: deliver, monitor, and troubleshoot with confidence.
Duration
5 days
Price
3'950.–
Course documents
Original Omnissa e-Kit (E-Book & Labs)
Course facts
- Understanding the architecture and operational components of Omnissa Horizon 8, App Volumes, and Dynamic Environment Manager (DEM)
- Building and optimizing Windows and Linux images for virtual desktop deployment, including the use of the Omnissa OS Optimization Tool (OSOT)
- Creating and managing Instant Clone and Full Clone desktop pools, and configuring Remote Desktop Services (RDS) farms and application pools
- Administering user entitlements and customizing pool settings to meet performance, security, and user experience requirements, supporting various use cases
- Managing application delivery by creating, assigning, and integrating Application Packages and Writable Volumes with Horizon (App Volumes)
- Applying DEM's capabilities for user environment personalization and policy enforcement by managing settings and condition sets (focusing on the top 5 use cases)
- Monitoring and troubleshooting the Horizon environment, including all core components (Horizon, App Volumes, and DEM), to resolve common issues
- Introductions and course logistics
- Course objectives
- Review Horizon 8 architecture
- Understanding Roles and Privileges in Horizon 8
- Horizon Console
- Horizon Help Desk Tool
- Horizon Performance Tracker
- Working with Role-Based Delegation Administration
- Introduction to the Horizon Agent
- Securing Horizon connections
- Installation and configuration options
- Horizon Agent and Remote Desktop Features
- Introduction to Horizon Client
- Install and configure
- Horizon Client settings
- Horizon Client connectivity and security
- Horizon Client features
- Build a Windows Desktop Image
- Preparation for Image Build
- Agents
- Optimizing the Windows Image
- Understand Templates and Snapshots
- Overview of Windows virtual desktop pools
- Pool creation process workflows
- Pool administration tasks
- Introduction to RDS Desktop and Application Pools
- How Does RDS Works
- Creating the RDS Application and Desktop Pools
- Remote Desktop Services Host Manual Farms
- Accessing and Configuring RDS Pools
- Remote Desktop Services Host Automated Farms
- Horizon Remote Desktop Services Load Balancing
- Linux Deployment Overview
- Linux Machine Preparation
- Working with the Easy Setup Tool
- Upgrading a Golden Image
- Upgrading a virtual desktop pool
- Understanding Monitoring in Horizon 8
- Understanding Horizon 8 Logs
- Introduction to Troubleshooting
- Understanding Horizon connections
- Horizon connections load balancing
- Troubleshooting Horizon connections
- Key ports and protocols
- Black screen
- Help Desk tool deep dive
- Troubleshooting machines and desktops
- Troubleshooting Linux desktops
- Why optimize a Windows image?
- Windows OS Optimization Tool for Horizon
- Using Automation to build optimized Windows images
- Lab: Building a Windows image using the OS
- Optimization Tool for Horizon
- Troubleshooting Instant Clones
- Horizon Client for Windows
- Horizon Client for Linux
- Horizon Client for Mac
- Horizon Web Client (HTML Access)
- Device redirection
- Nested RDSH redirection
- App Volumes Overview
- App Volumes Applications and Packages
- Understand Application Lifecycle Management
- Writable Volumes
- App Volumes Architecture
- Packaging Applications
- Delivering Applications
- Updating Applications
- Dynamic Environment Manager Overview
- Explore the DEM Management Console
- Learn about DEM Personalization
- Learn about DEM User and Computer Environment
- Learn about DEM Condition Sets
- Dynamic Environment Manager Architecture
- Explore DEM Personalization
- Configure ADMX-Based settings, Application Blocking, and Privilege Elevation
- Deliver the experience with Horizon Smart Policies, Condition Sets, and Triggered Tasks
- App Volumes troubleshooting basics
- Dynamic Environment Manager troubleshooting basics
- A working knowledge of Horizon 8
- A background in End-User Computing
- Having completed the following course: