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Horizon 7.11 Deployment – Part 5: Windows 10 Desktop Image (refers to TechZone for now, video coming soon!)

Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:24:39 +0000

Hi everyone,

Sadly during server maintenance, the contents of this blog posts were corrupted.

For now, I will link you all to a TechZone article that explain you what to do. A video on this will be coming soon once I get to it.

My apologies!

Horizon 7.11 Deployment – Part 4: Deploying & Configuring Unified Access Gateway Appliance

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:49:05 +0000

Hi readers,

In this part of the series, we will be deploying the VMware Horizon Unitied Access Gateway Appliance. It’s similar to the old Horizon Security server, and I myself mainly use it so I can connect to my Horizon connection server from a public IP address. (from my /24 block)

First what we do is download and deploy the UAG OVA template. In my set-up, a normal deployment will suffice and two NICs are enough. One is for the internal LAN, and one is for the external network.

Horizon 7.11 Deployment – Part 3: Deploying & Configuring Connection Server

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 01:38:53 +0000

Hi readers,

In this third part of the series, we will be deploying the Connection Server., the base of the Horizon package.

First, we will need a server or virtual machine running Windows Server 2012 or higher. The OS requirement is simple (source):

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Version
</th>
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Edition
</th>

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64-bit
</td>
<td>
Standard Enterprise Datacenter
</td>

<td>
64-bit
</td>
<td>
Standard Datacenter
</td>

<td>
64-bit
</td>
<td>
Standard Datacenter
</td>

<td>
64-bit
</td>
<td>
Standard Datacenter
</td>

Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019

The following hardware requirements apply (source):

Horizon 7.11 Deployment – Part 2: Requirements

Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:27:57 +0000

Hello readers,

Welcome to part two of the Horizon 7.11 deployment series. In this short post, we will go over what we will deploy in this series, what it is and in what part it will be deployed.

We will deploy the following:

Active Directory. (An ADDS server for our domain. This is a requirement that I will not go over. On request I may make a post about this.)
Horizon Connection Server. (This Connection Server will be the brain of our Horizon deployment. It will handle assignments, allocation, and management of desktops and RDSH servers.) – This will be deployed in Part 3.
Optional: Unified Access Gateway. (For my deployment, I want to be able to connect to a public IP from my /24 block, and access the Connection Server this way. Previously the Security Server was used for this.) – This will be deployed in Part 4.
Optional: a Remote Desktop Session Host. With this, one of the use cases is to allow users to connect to applications on the RDSH host. (I will just use this to experiment.) This will be deployed in Part 6.

In part 4, I will be going over a TechZone article and show you how to create a Windows 10 image that can be cloned easily to fit your deployment. For now, I will not go over View Composer. However, later in the series I will, once I’ve deployed a copy of this set-up as a lab. However, due to SSD space issues this may take a while. I may try to balance it in HDDs, but I have to be careful to avoid this insanity.

Horizon 7.11 Deployment – Part 1: Use-case, goal and why Horizon?

Sat, 01 Feb 2020 15:57:00 +0000

Hi readers,

This post is the first part of a VMware Horizon 7.11 Deployment series. In this first part, we will look into what Horizon is, what it is used for and why you should use it.

As VMware puts it out, which is a great explanation of what Horizon 8 is for; VMware Horizon 7: “simplifies the management and delivery of virtual desktops and apps on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid or multi-cloud configuration through a single platform to end-users. By leveraging complete workspace environment management and optimized for the software-defined data center, Horizon 7 helps IT control, manage, and protect all of the Windows resources end users want, at the speed they expect, with the efficiency business demands.“