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    VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials
    VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials
    VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials
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    VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials

    By Joel Lindberg, Peter Björk and Peter von Oven

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    This book uses a stepbystep approach to teach you how to design, deploy, and manage a Horizon Workspace based on real world experience. Written in an easytofollow style, this book explains the terminology in a clear and concise manner. Each feature is explained starting at a high level and then drilling down into the technical detail, using diagrams and screenshots.

    This book is perfect for IT administrators who want to deploy a solution to centrally manage access to corporate applications, data, and virtual desktops using Horizon Workspace. You need to have some experience in delivering BYOD initiatives and delivering applications from the Cloud (SaaS).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateMar 20, 2014
    ISBN9781782172383
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      VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials - Joel Lindberg

      Table of Contents

      VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials

      Credits

      About the Authors

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Getting Started with VMware Horizon Workspace

      Introduction to VMware Horizon Workspace

      Ease of deployment

      Proving the technology

      Prerequisites

      Infrastructure requirements for an initial test setup

      Infrastructure requirements for production deployment

      Network, DNS, and Active Directory requirements

      vCenter Server requirements

      External access

      Certificates

      Horizon Workspace vApp

      An overview of vApp

      Users

      Downloading the software

      Summary

      2. Design, Install, and Configure

      The Horizon Workspace architecture

      The Horizon Workspace sizing guide

      Sizing the Horizon Workspace virtual appliances

      Sizing for Preview services

      The Horizon Workspace database

      External access and load balancing considerations

      Deploying and configuring the vApp

      Configuring an IP pool

      Deploying the vApp

      The command-line configuration process

      Web-based configuration

      Summary

      3. Horizon Files

      An introduction to Horizon Workspace Files

      Horizon data appliance architecture

      Configuring storage on the data-va virtual machine

      Calculating user storage requirements

      Adding a new VMDK

      Adding a new NFS data store

      Enabling Horizon Files and entitling users

      Enabling the Horizon Files module

      Entitling users to Horizon Files

      Configuring a Class of Service

      COS configuration options

      User accounts

      Domain users

      Virtual users

      Document preview

      LibreOffice

      Microsoft Windows Preview

      Managing files and folders

      Uploading a file

      Sharing a file

      Version control

      Comments

      Creating a new folder

      Sharing a folder

      History

      Synchronizing Horizon Files and offline access

      Multi-device access

      The Android app

      The iOS app

      Summary

      4. Integrating SaaS Applications

      Configuring SAML-based SaaS apps

      Configuring Horizon Workspace for SaaS apps

      Configuring the SaaS app for Horizon Workspace

      Summary

      5. Mobile Management

      An overview of Horizon Workspace on a mobile

      Configuring Mobile Management

      Horizon Mobile Workspace policies

      Mobile device enrolment

      Enrolling an Android device

      Enrolling an iOS device

      Summary

      6. Integrating ThinApp Packages

      An overview of ThinApp integration

      Enabling Horizon management in your ThinApp packages

      Enabling ThinApp integration in Horizon Workspace

      ThinApp configuration in Horizon Workspace

      Entitling a user to the ThinApp-packaged application

      Updating ThinApp packages

      Summary

      7. Horizon View Integration

      Configuring Horizon Workspace for view access

      Configuring user accounts for Horizon View

      Enabling and configuring Horizon View pools

      Configuring the Horizon View Workspace integration

      Configuring SAML authentication

      Configuring HTML5 desktop access

      Accessing your desktop

      Summary

      8. Troubleshooting

      Installation troubleshooting

      Networking

      Configuring the IP pool

      DNS errors

      Web-based setup wizard issues

      Troubleshooting AD errors

      User-synchronization issues

      Time-synchronization issues

      Changing the Fully Qualified Domain Name

      Accessing the Horizon Workspace logfiles

      Virtual appliance logs

      Downloading the appliance logfiles

      Client logfiles

      Summary

      A. Useful Links

      Community and blog pages

      VMware official documentation

      Summary

      Index

      VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials

      VMware Horizon Workspace Essentials

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      Credits

      Authors

      Peter von Oven

      Peter Björk

      Joel Lindberg

      Reviewers

      Andrew Alloway

      Luigi Danakos

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      About the Authors

      Peter von Oven is an experienced technical consultant and has spent the last 20 years of his IT career working with customers and partners in designing technology solutions aimed at delivering true business value. During his career, Peter has been involved in numerous large-scale enterprise projects and deployments, presented at key IT events, and has worked in senior pre-sales roles for some of the giants of IT. Over the last eight years, Peter has focused his skills and experience within the end user computing market, and today he leads the End User Computing Pre Sales team at VMware in the UK&I, tasked with delivering the next generation of end-user computing and workforce mobility solutions.

      Peter got his first taste for writing last year while assisting with some of the chapters in the book Building End-User Computing Solutions with VMware View, Lulu, and got the writing bug. He went on to write his own book, VMware Horizon Mirage Essentials, Packt Publishing, which was published in December 2013.

      I would like to thank my wife and my two daughters for their continued support while I have spent many an evening and weekend at the keyboard. Finally, I would also like to thank my co-authors, Peter Björk and Joel Lindberg. It's been great sharing ideas and collaborating during the writing of this book.

      Peter Björk has many years' experience in VMware Horizon Workspace and ThinApp. He started out working with Thinstall, and continued after VMware acquired the product in 2008, renaming it ThinApp. Peter supports Horizon Workspace and ThinApp in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region. As a teacher, Peter has educated many ThinApp packagers around the world. Peter lives in Sweden with his wife and two kids, a boy and a girl. Peter Björk is very active on the VMware community pages and the official VMware Workspace and ThinApp blogs. You can follow Peter on Twitter (@thepeb) to get the latest ThinApp and Workspace news.

      Peter Björk published his first book, VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials, Packt Publishing, in 2012.

      I would like to thank the people who have supported me throughout the writing of this book. First and foremost, my thanks go out to my wonderful wife, Lena. Many thanks to my two wonderful kids, Albin and Filippa, who constantly remind me of what's important in my life. Many thanks to my co-writers, Joel Lindberg and Peter von Oven; it has been a pleasure working with you.

      Joel Lindberg has 20 years' experience in the IT industry in various positions and is currently working at VMware as a Senior Systems Engineer specializing in end-user computing solutions. He has spoken at VMworld several times and is an active member and moderator on the VMware user communities. Joel interacts with customers, partners, and vendors, and has been involved in many successful customer projects. You can follow him on Twitter (@viewgeek).

      Joel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his family.

      I would like to thank my wife for supporting me in writing this book and my co-authors Peter Björk and Peter von Oven for their guidance and good judgment.

      About the Reviewers

      Andrew Alloway was born and raised in Edmonton, Canada. He graduated from the University of Alberta with a Computer Science degree.

      Working at Nuna Logistics Limited, he supported northern mining sites in its unique and challenging IT environment. In 2012, some of his projects and work was featured in the Winter 2012 edition of Aptitude Magazine in an article entitled Building the road to streamlined license agreements.

      He is a supporter of open source technology and products including Ubuntu, ICTFax, Apache, Drupal, Piler, and various other projects.

      He has designed and implemented projects including Exchange migrations, Lync deployments, System Center Configuration Manager, and various other VMware products.

      In 2013, Andrew attained his VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization certification.

      I would like to thank my family for all the support I have received over the years, and my employers for investing in the development of my skills and career.

      Luigi Danakos has been in the technology industry for 11 years. He likes

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