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Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon 7 has been a buzz since it was announced. One of the major reasons is the introduction of the new Instant Clones feature. This book will complement the product documentation by providing real-life examples of how it is implemented along with the latest features and components of the platform. We'll explore the latest features of the platform, including those added through product acquisitions such as User Environment Manager and App Volumes. Further on, you will also be introduced to the new capabilities added to the core product such Linked-Clone RDS pools. Upon completion of this book, you will have an understanding of the capabilities and benefits VMware Horizon can provide to your organization, and how each of its components are implemented.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Chapter 8. Implementing VMware User Environment Manager

VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) is a standalone component of VMware Horizon Enterprise Edition which provides robust, contextual, dynamic end-user persona management capabilities across different devices and locations. UEM can be used to provide a personalized and consistent desktop experience across Horizon desktops, physical computers, Windows RDS servers, and even virtual desktops managed by other virtual desktop platforms.

While UEM offers a significant number of different options for managing and customizing a users' persona, as we will show in this chapter, a basic installation capable of saving user persona data can be set up and running in less than 30 minutes.

By the end of this chapter, we will learn:

  • The UEM pre-installation tasks, including file share and AD group policy requirements

  • How to install the UEM Agent

  • How to use the UEM Easy Start feature to quickly configure a basic UEM environment

  • How to configure the UEM group...