1. Course Introduction

• Course goals, objectives, and outline
• Additional resources upon completing this course

2. Introduction to VMware Horizon

• Features and benefits of VMware Horizon
• Major function of each VMware Horizon component
• Use case for your virtual desktop and application infrastructure

3. View Connection Server

• VMware vSphere requirements for a connection server
• Network and firewall configurations for View Connection Server
• License VMware Horizon components
• Configure View Connection Server

4. VMware Horizon Pools and Desktops

• Process and choices in setting up VMware Horizon 7 virtual machines
• Remote display protocols that are available in VMware Horizon
• Ports that must be opened in the machine’s firewall for VMware Horizon operations
• Configuration choices when installing Horizon Agent
• Steps to set up a template for desktop pool deployment
• How information on the Users and Groups page can be used to control and monitor View users
• Hierarchy of global policies, pool-level policies, and user-level policies
• View Group Policy administrative (ADM) template files

5. Horizon Client Options

• Requirements for a Horizon Client installation
• USB redirection and options
• Power states for desktops
• Compare a thin client with a system running Horizon Client
• Benefits of Virtual Printing
• Virtual Printing architecture
• Configuration options for Virtual Printing
• Location-based printing feature

6. Creating Automated Pools of Full Virtual Machines

• How an automated pool operates
• Compare dedicated-assignment and floating-assignment pools
• Outline the steps to create an automated pool
• Entitlement of desktops in automated pools

7. Creating and Managing Linked-Clone Desktops

• VMware linked-clone technology
• Why both a parent virtual machine and a snapshot must be used to create linked clones
• System requirements for View Composer
• Relationship between a persistent disk and the system disk
• Outline the steps necessary to set up an automated desktop pool that uses linked clones
• Compare the purpose of the parent and the replica virtual machines
• Compare the linked-clone management operations
• Management operations for persistent disks

8. Creating and Managing Instant-Clone Pools

• Advantages of instant clones
• Distinguish View Composer clones from instant clones
• Requirements of instant clones
• Types of instant-clone virtual machines
• How folders are used to delegate pool administration
• Outline the steps to set up an automated pool that uses instant clones
• Instant-clone limitations in VMware Horizon 7
• Creation of instant clones
• Set up an automated pool of instant clones

9. Creating RDS Desktop and Application Pools

• Difference between an RDS desktop pool and an automated pool
• How a user can access a single application by using the RDS application pool
• Relationship between an RDS host, a farm, and an application pool
• Create an RDS desktop pool and an application pool
• How the View Composer linked-clone technology can automate the build-out of RDS server farms
• Load-balancing options for RDS hosts

10. VMware Horizon 7 Authentication

• Compare the authentication options that View Connection Server supports
• purpose of TrueSSO single sign-on
• TrueSSO single sign-on components

11. Managing VMware Horizon Security

• Compare tunnels and direct connections for client access to desktops
• Benefits of using either VMware Horizon Security Server or Access Point in the DMZ
• Identify where the tunnel endpoints are in a security server or an Access Point implementation
• Identify the tunnel endpoints when the security gateway is not used
• A direct connection
• Advantages of direct connections

12. Profile Management Using User Environment Manager

• Use cases and benefits of using User Environment Manager
• User Environment Manager and its architecture
• User Environment Manager functional areas and their benefits
  User Environment Manager profile management and its features
• Use the User Environment Manager management console and application profiler to manage user personalization and application configurations

13. Using App Volumes to Provision and Manage Applications

• How App Volumes works
• Features and benefits of App Volumes
• Interface elements of App Volumes
• Install and configure App Volumes

14. Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

• Key View Connection Server features that are available as command-line options with the vdmadmin command
• Purpose of kiosk mode for client systems and how it is configured
• Why you might want to limit the domains that View Connection Server makes available to end users
• Log locations for each VMware Horizon component

15. VMware Horizon Performance and Scalability

• Purpose of a replica server
• Compare a replica server to a standard connection server
• How multiple VMware Horizon servers maintain synchronization
• Best practices for multiserver deployment in a pod
• How a load-balancing capability might improve VMware Horizon performance