Course Overview
This session explains how and why we use Horizon 8 Virtual Desktops and Published Applications across platforms in On-Prem, Hybrid, and Cloud environments.
Who should attend
- Administrators with Experience
- Systems Engineers
- Consulting Architects
- Citrix Specialists
- Microsoft End-User Computing specialists
Prerequisites
Recommended:
- Already experienced Administrators
- Understand fundamental Networking / Storage and Infrastructure concepts
- Understand TCP/IP
- A good understanding for Microsoft Active Directory
Course Objectives
By the end of this session, attendees should be able to:
- 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
- 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
- Horizon Agent and Client Options
Using App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager attendees should be able to:
- Understand the role and function of all App Volumes Components.
- Understand App Volumes Architecture and Components.
- Understanding the Provisioning Process of building a Package.
- Understanding the benefits , configuration requirements and options related to Classic Delivery of applications.
- Understanding the benefits , configuration requirements and options related to On-Demand Delivery of applications.
- Learning how to setup App Volumes Storage Groups for Multi-site scenarios
- Understanding best Practices related to the setup, configuration and use of Writable Volumes.
- Using App Volumes tools command line options and Delivery of applications.
- Understanding Dynamic Enviromment Manager Architecture and Components
- An overview of Group Policy based configuration
- An overview of NOAD mode configuration
- An understanding of how Dynamic Environment Manager sync and replication works
- An understanding of the Conditional element of Dynamic Environment Manager
- Dynamic Environment Manager Advanced configurations for example, Smart Policies and Triggered Tasks
- Dynamic Environment Manager Optional components:-
- Self Support Tool
- Help Desk Support Tool
- Application Profiler
- Dynamic Environment Manager Sync Tool
- An Overview of ThinAPP
Course Content
- 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 Environmement Manager Optional Components