VMware Horizon 7: Install, Configure, Manage (VHVICM) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Introduce View Agent

  • Describe PCoIP and Remote Desktop Protocol remote display protocols
  • Explain USB redirection and multimedia redirection

VMware View Client Options

  • Introduce VMware® View™ Client
  • Introduce View Client with Local Mode
  • Describe thin clients and zero clients
  • Introduce Virtual Printing with View Client

View Administrator

  • Configure the View environment
  • Manage users, sessions, and policies
  • Configure and provision automated pools of desktops
  • Explain role-based delegated administration
  • Monitor the View environment

Configuring and Managing Linked Clones

  • Introduce View Composer operations
  • Deploy and provision linked-clone desktops
  • Manage linked-clone desktops
  • Manage persistent disks

Local-Mode Desktops

  • Configure local-mode desktops
  • Describe View Transfer Server and the Transfer Server repository
  • Describe local-mode operations

Managing View Security

  • Describe network configuration and authentication options
  • Configure the View security server

View Persona Management

  • Configure user profiles with View Persona Management
  • Describe View Persona Management and Windows roaming profiles
  • Configure a View Persona Management deployment
  • Describe best practices for a View Persona Management deployment

VMware Horizon Application Manager

  • Ensure that VMware® Horizon Application Manager™ is working
  • Introduce Application Manager components
  • Describe single sign-on from Horizon View to View desktops
  • Enable browser access to View desktops through Horizon View
  • Entitle applications by using Horizon View

Command-Line Tools and Backup Options

  • Introduce vdmadmin utility
  • Describe client systems in kiosk mode
  • Back up the View databases
  • Restore the View databases

View Connection Server Performance and Scalability

  • Describe replica connection servers
  • Explain performance considerations and load balancing

VMware ThinApp

  • Use ThinApp to capture applications
  • Deploy and update ThinApp packages
  • Virtualize Internet Explorer 6 for use on a Windows 7 system
  • Manage ThinApp applications in View