Omnissa Horizon® 8: Administration and Operations

Horizon® 8: Administration and Operations OMHAO

Kurskode: OMHAO

varighet: 5 Dag(er)

Sted: Virtual, Instructor Led Training

Katergori: Omnissa

Course Overview

Streamline Horizon 8 Administration: deliver, monitor, and troubleshoot with confidence
Delivered by an Omnissa Certified Instructor, the Horizon 8: Administration and Operations course teaches IT professionals to effectively manage desktops and users with Horizon Console. Learners will also gain practical skills to optimize performance and troubleshoot common issues.

• Understand the architecture and components of Omnissa Horizon 8.

• Build and optimize Windows and Linux images for virtual desktop deployment.

• Create and manage Instant Clone and Full Clone desktop pools.

• Configure and manage Remote Desktop Services (RDS) farms and application pools.

• Administer user entitlements and access permissions for desktops and applications.

• Customize pool settings to meet performance, security, and user experience requirements.

• Deliver use cases such as persistent/non-persistent desktops, remote apps, and complex scenarios.

• Use Omnissa OS Optimization Tool (OSOT) to optimize desktop images.

• Monitor and analyze the Horizon environment using the helpdesk console and performance monitoring tool.

• Perform basic troubleshooting across Horizon, App Volumes, and DEM components.

• Identify and resolve common issues related to connectivity, performance, and user experience.

• Review the architecture and operational components of App Volumes.

• Create, assign, and manage Application Packages and Writable Volumes.

• Integrate App Volumes with Horizon desktop pools for dynamic application on-demand delivery.

• Troubleshoot common App Volumes issues related to provisioning, assignment, and performance.

• Understand the role of DEM in user environment personalization and policy enforcement.

• Create and manage Application Personalization settings

• Create and manage user and computer environment settings, including focusing on the top 5 DEM use cases.

• Apply condition sets and policies for contextual user experience.

• Troubleshoot DEM configurations and user profile issues.

1 Course introduction

• Introductions and course logistics

• Course objectives
2 Introduction to Omnissa Horizon 8

• Review Horizon 8 architecture

• Understanding Roles and Privileges in Horizon 8
3 Navigating the Horizon Console

• Horizon Console

• Horizon Help Desk Tool

• Horizon Performance Tracker

• Working with Role-Based Delegation Administration
4 Horizon Agent

• Introduction to the Horizon Agent

• Securing Horizon connections

• Installation and configuration options

• Horizon Agent and Remote Desktop Features
5 Horizon Client

• Introduction to Horizon Client

• Install and configure

• Horizon Client settings

• Horizon Client connectivity and security

• Horizon Client features
6 Creating the Windows Desktop Image

• Build a Windows Desktop Image

• Preparation for Image Build

• Agents

• Optimizing the Windows Image

• Understand Templates and Snapshots
7 Preparing Virtual Desktop Pools

• Overview of Windows virtual desktop pools

• Pool creation process workflows

• Pool administration tasks
8 Horizon Remote Desktop Session Host Services

• 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
9 Creating Linux Virtual Desktops

• Linux Deployment Overview

• Linux Machine Preparation

• Working with the Easy Setup Tool
10 Update images and pools

• Upgrading a Golden Image

• Upgrading a virtual desktop pool
11 Introduction to monitoring, logs, and troubleshooting

• Understanding Monitoring in Horizon 8

• Understanding Horizon 8 Logs

• Introduction to Troubleshooting
12 Horizon connection troubleshooting

• Understanding Horizon connections

• Horizon connections load balancing

• Troubleshooting Horizon connections

• Key ports and protocols

• Black screen
13 Troubleshooting machines and desktops

• Help Desk tool deep dive

• Troubleshooting machines and desktops

• Troubleshooting Linux desktops
14 Optimizing Windows desktops and servers

• 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
15 Troubleshooting Instant Clones

• Troubleshooting Instant Clones
16 Troubleshooting Horizon Client

• Horizon Client for Windows

• Horizon Client for Linux

• Horizon Client for Mac

• Horizon Web Client (HTML Access)
17 Troubleshooting device redirection

• Device redirection

• Nested RDSH redirection
18 Introduction to App Volumes

• App Volumes Overview

• App Volumes Applications and Packages

• Understand Application Lifecycle Management

• Writable Volumes

• App Volumes Architecture
19 Capture and deliver App Volumes packages

• Packaging Applications

• Delivering Applications

• Updating Applications
20 Introduction to Dynamic Environment Manager

• 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
21 Deliver a persistent user experience with Dynamic Environment Manager

• Explore DEM Personalization

• Configure ADMX-Based settings, Application Blocking, and Privilege Elevation

• Deliver the experience with Horizon Smart Policies, Condition Sets, and Triggered Tasks
22 Troubleshooting App Volumes and Dynamic Environment Manager

• App Volumes troubleshooting basics

• Dynamic Environment Manager troubleshooting basics

Recommended:

• A working knowledge of Horizon 8

• A background in End-User Computing

• Completed Horizon 8 Deploy and Manage course
Technical requirements

• Bring a full-size laptop.

• A secondary device is recommended for reading and lab materials, which are only delivered electronically.

• Please ensure you have the US keyboard mapping added to your devices.

Intermediate to advanced practitioners that manage, optimize and troubleshoot enterprise desktops and applications in their environment.

Kurskode: OMHAO Kateegori: Omnissa, Virtualisation

Salar Ghadani

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Kurskode: OMHAO

varighet: 5 Dag(er)

KATEGORI: Omnissa

Underkatergori: Virtualisation

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