[music] Hi, and welcome to the What's New
Overview of VMware Horizon 7 v 7.8 and VMware Horizon Client 5.0.
My name is Hilko Lantinga, and I'm a Senior
End-User Computing Architect at VMware.
This overview will take a peek at some
of the changes. For a complete list, have a
look at the Release Notes. First we'll
see what's new in the platform. Skype for
Business 2019 support has been added and
also Windows Server 2019 for Composer
and Connection Servers. Using Server 2019
for RDSH and desktops was also
added to the previous release. Then let's
have a look at what's new in the
administration consoles.
Everyone should be familiar with the new
HTML5-based Horizon Console at this point. As
we continue to drive towards feature
parity with the older Flash-based
Horizon Administrator, several
announcements have been made. In the
Horizon Console, we can now import a user
persistent disk and recreate a linked-clone
desktop for the user.
Global policies for multimedia
redirection use VXS and PCoIP
hardware acceleration, policies that
affect old sessions and users are now
configurable in the Horizon Console.
Users who have the administrators role
can use Horizon Administrator to add and
remove administrator users and groups
and their permissions or privileges. We
can now enable or disable backup or edit
the connection service for the Horizon Console. So
for example, we can set tags, set up SAML,
and configure tunnels. We can also
register VMware Unified Access Gateway versions
3.4 and higher, and see their version IP
address and location. Another new
addition is the ability to add or change
vCenter and Composer settings, including
things like disk space reclamation,
Horizon storage acceleration, and a number
of concurrent operations. The Horizon Console
is now able to create and edit linked
clone farms and perform actions like
recompose, enable, or disable provisioning
and enabling or disabling the farm.
Everything needed to manage cloud podts
has been added to the Horizon Console. It's
now possible to initiate or un-initiate
or join VMware Cloud Pod Architecture; create,
edit, delete global entitlements; and
add or delete its pools; and to create or
edit sites and pods, and set home sites
assignments. The ability to add shortcuts
for remote applications and desktops has
been added to the Horizon Console. Then
let's have a look at scaling. With
VMware Cloud Pod Architecture, the number of
pods has been extended from 25 to 50.
The number of sites went up from 5 to 15,
allowing for a greater architectural
flexibility. The total number of sessions,
sessions per pod, and number of
Connection Servers for both, remain the
same. Then let's have a look at what's
new with publish applications and
desktops. In the Horizon Administrator, is
now possible to set percentage-based
thresholds for CPU memory and disk usage,
allowing for easier and greater control
than the previous four states from a
custom width
Remote application restrictions are now
more flexible allowing you to use them
outside of the default computer's OU.
Horizon 7 with VMware Cloud on
Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows you to have
VMware vSphere and Horizon 7 in the cloud,
but managed and installed just as
on premises. The Horizon 7 pool with VMware
Cloud on AWS is now capable of using
multiple network segments, allowing you
to use less pools and/or smaller scopes.
VMware Cloud on AWS 1.6 is bringing support
for Microsoft SQL Server clustering,
VMware Site Recovery, VMware Network
Insight, and deploying SDC's to Singapore,
Paris, and Canada. Please note that Canada
does not support stretched clusters. Then
let's have a look at some of the
additions to the agents. You can now use
regular expressions where you create URL
content redirection rules, allowing
greater flexibility. Smart card
authentication is now supported with UWP
apps such as Microsoft Edge and
remote desktops. Helpdesk plugin is
included in the Horizon Agent installer,
and VMware integrated printing offers
a finishing option, like staple or
booklet, for specific redirected printers.
Horizon Agent for Linux is now supported
on desktops running Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.6 or CentOS 7.6
distributions. Beginning with Horizon HTML
Access version 5.0, the multi-monitor
feature is supported in Horizon 7 for
Linux desktops. Horizon 7 version 7.8
supports smart card redirection on linux
desktops running Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7.1 or later. This feature allows
client users to authenticate in to a
Linux desktop using a smart card reader
connected to the client system. Horizon 7.8
supports True Single Sign-On (SSO) on Linux desktops
running Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04, and SUSE
Enterprise Linux 12 SB 3. When an
administrator enables session
collaboration, a client user can invite
additional users to join a Linux Remote
Desktop session in read-only mode. Only
the primary user can access controls on
a remote desktop. Additional users
can view the desktop but cannot control or
make changes to it. A video VGBU is now
supported of the Linux desktops running
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. Now let's see a
few new features of the Horizon Clients.
All Horizon Clients in the Client Agent Release Train (CART) have been redesigned
to align with VMware Workspace ONE. They retain
their earlier functionality, but have
changed graphically. For security
purposes, the domain list is no longer sent
to the clients, meaning a user will have to
add the domain information to the
username.
The maximum number of monitors of the
Windows Client has been extended to 6.
When OS X is set to dark mode, the Mac
Client will now reflect that. In
presentation mode, the iOS Client now
supports rotation, end users can now use
the client device building cameras in a
remote desktop or published application.
Users can use the new Horizon Client
camera setting to select video
resolution and camera front or rear to
use. Users can now transfer files between
the client system and the published
application with the Chrome client. [music]