this video provides an overview of the many new features in the latest release
of VMware horizon 7.5 VMware horizon 7 is your one-stop shop for enabling and
delivering all things in user computing with its rich portfolio of features and
functions horizon 7 delivers manages and protects virtual desktops and apps
across devices and locations benefits of this complete solution start with
excellent user experience that extends to IT departments efficiently for
provisioning management and monitoring a key addition the releases horizon
console horizon consoles the latest version of the web interface through
which you can create and manage virtual desktops and applications using
workflows it also functions with the new VMware horizon just-in-time
management platform integrated workflow features for managing workspaces based
on html5 Harrison consoles a more secure updated method for administering horizon
7 to access horizon console first log in to horizon administrator then select
Harrison console or you can access it directly by going to HTTPS your
connection server /nu admin using a web browser supported features and functions
for horizon console include entitling users groups desktops and applications
remote access authentication and unauthenticated access for published
applications virtual desktop pool creation for automated full clones and
instant clones including dedicated assignments published desktops with
manual and instant clone forms published apps with manual and existing app pools
and finally virtual machines registered with and without virtual Center server
horizon console includes a partial implementation of horizon 7 features use
the classic admin interface horizon administrator to access those features
that are not yet supported by horizon console
with FEMA horizon just in time management platform integrated workflow
features you can use a single console to define and manage desktop workspaces for
users or groups of users but desktop workspace is created by defining a jump
assignment that includes information about their arras and desktop pools app
volumes app stacks and user environment manager settings IT will be able to
focus on managing the user's desktop workspace based on a desired state in
specific requirements this new feature provides a complete
desktop management experience supportive versions of VMware products that
comprise the jump technology must be available before you can install the
jump server and use the jump integrated workflow features supported product
versions include horizon 7 versions have a nut 5 or later at volumes 2 dat 13 or
later user environment manager 9.2 that one or later Identity Manager (aka VMware Workspace ONE Access) to dot 9.2
or later there's a new version of the helpdesk tool that can be found in the
new horizon console just open horizon console and select a username to start
investigating and troubleshooting virtual desktop and app sessions other
new updates for the helpdesk tool include support for Linux desktop
sessions Skype for business pairing status desktop or app session state
information and disk IAP metrics for virtual desktops and RDS systems
be sure to enable the timing profiler on the connection servers to see the logon
segment data VMware horizon performance tracker runs from remote desktop session
and monitors the performance of display protocol and system resource usage you
can also create an application pool and run horizon's' tracker as a published
application it's now time for a demo to see the new horizon 7 diabetes in
practice to access the new horizon console we first log into Harrah's
administrator then select horizon console
we are greeted with a graphic and a summary of what's included in Harrah's
and console the layout of the interface is straightforward using familiar
terminology from her Aza administrator this demo environment has been pre
staged to include an automated instant clone desktop pool and an RDS form along
with app stacks and user environment manager policy settings
everything is ready to go for deployment except for the user entitlements which
brings us to the next step creating a jump assignment from the
assignments tab click new to start the jump integrated workflow process we will
then enter the Active Directory group Group 1 for the first assignment next
select the desktop pool followed by some applications in this case we will pick
the tableau and Microsoft Office 2016
lastly we'll pick a few use environment settings for the group one users this
includes mapping a network shared printer mapping a network file share
applying horizon smart policies and disabling the service is contained in it
to further restrict the desktop we will hide some drives finally shortcuts will
be added
let's review the list of items for the assignment then select submit to start
the process a notification will appear indicating that the assignment has been
added to the queue another notification is provided once the assignment is
finished processing click refresh to continue notice that the status changes
from orange to green let's now create a second assignment for members of group
to the same instant clone desktop pool will be used this time visual studio
will be selected for the app stack deployment group 2 users will get the
group 2 network printer group 2 file share and some shortcuts
you
let's take a look and see what the jump server has changed
there are now two desktop entitlements defined for both groups from app volumes
manager we see Group one is assigned to tableau and office group two is assigned
to Visual Studio
user environment manager now contains an extra tab labeled assignments for each
assigned studying users in Group one will have a specific Drive mapping users
in group two will also have their own Drive mapping
Group one users would not be allowed to use services such as client drive
mapping and will have their C Drive as well as a few other drives hidden in
their sessions let's log in to see the changes from the end user perspective
user 1 a member of group 1 has access to office 2016 in tableau these apps have
been dynamically delivered as app stacks doing log on based on assignments we set
notice that group ones printer is available
the file share mapped as drive G is also ready for use however the C Drive as
well as the client drive cannot be accessed by this office worker
let's now login as user to a member of group to the CID developer who's been
given access to Ron Visual Studio
the group - printer is now available as well as the group - file share
notice that user - is less restricted with access to the C Drive as well as
the ability to upload and download content from the client endpoint even
though both assignments are using the same base image from the same instant
clone provision pool the two sessions are configured very differently and that
is really the point of the jump technologies switching back to rosin
console let's look up user ones session status
using the help desk tool session details are provided for the
client agent and horizon infrastructure and the performance data insights can
greatly assist with troubleshooting
lastly user experience metrics are available via the help desk tool
when even more details are needed to gauge the remote desktops performance of
the display protocol use the new horizon performance tracker provided as part of
the agent install the tool provides family with usage frame rate and system
resource consumption data along with the information regarding the active encoder
and transport type finally session properties cover the end-to-end broker
to client communication path here's a list of other new platform features for
horus and 7.5 including deployment support for VMware cloud on AWS
virtualization based security and bt p.m. vSphere 6.7 enhanced support for
vgpu and instant clones cloud pod architecture support limits have
increased and more gpo settings have been added new agent features include
html5 multimedia redirection support for edge SEO sensor redirection the linux
agent can now be used by the help desk tool and network intelligence transport
support is available for last summer new features have been added to horizon
client 4.8 highlights include Windows 10 18:03 is supported by the windows and
universal Windows platform clients last transport settings are now automatically
configured there's no more users selection in the clients android 8.1 is
now supported the iOS client now offers support for client drive redirection and
finally Mac OS 10 13.4 is supported as a horizon client for more information
about the rasen 7.5 release and imbued the assortment of additional horizon--
resources head over to texan vmware.com select horizon choose horizon 7 from the
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