Series: Upgrading to Horizon 7.12, How to?

Welcome everyone to this series on upgrading Horizon environment to 7.12 release. In this series, I will upgrade Horizon 7.7 environment that is running in my test lab to Horizon 7.12 release. During this process, we will try to understand Upgrade path, product interoperability, upgrade order, upgrade process for each of the component. Horizon 7.x … Continue reading Series: Upgrading to Horizon 7.12, How to?

What is RDSH App Session Pre-Launch feature in Horizon 7.3 & later?

Application Session Pre-Launch feature greatly reduces the application launch time for end users. Generally when user launches any RDSH application, Horizon client establishes the session with backend RDSH application with a message "Connection server is preparing your application" and then launches the application from it. This usually takes some time to load the application (Mostly … Continue reading What is RDSH App Session Pre-Launch feature in Horizon 7.3 & later?

What is URL Content Redirection in Horizon View 7.x?

With the URL Content Redirection feature, we configure specific URLs to open on the client machine and specific URLs on the virtual desktop or application. How does this feature help? URL Content Redirection helps both improve security and reduce unnecessary bandwidth and resource consumption in virtual desktop when users browse certain Internet based content. Let … Continue reading What is URL Content Redirection in Horizon View 7.x?

Horizon 7.x: How to configure Horizon Client air-gapped network download

Once the Connection Server is installed, we can access the Connection Server at https://<Server FQDN>. On this page, there are two options to access the Horizon environment. VMware Horizon HTML Access  This option basically allows to connect a Horizon desktop pools and published applications using  web browser as a client (HTML5), no additional installation or plug-ins … Continue reading Horizon 7.x: How to configure Horizon Client air-gapped network download