VMware Horizon 8: Virtual Desktop Bootcamp — Lesson 3: RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience

Learning Objectives

• Break down the prerequisites, components, roles, and decision points involved in RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience.
• Complete a controlled activity for RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience and capture application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence.
• Challenge the result with a profile policy improving one user group while breaking an application for another, then justify the corrective action.

Detailed Topics

• RDS farms
• Published applications
• Profiles
• Dynamic Environment Manager
• App Volumes concepts
• Policies
• USB and printing controls
• Client settings
• And user experience
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

The demonstration traces RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience from requirement through execution and review. Learners see where evidence should be collected, how application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence supports validation, and which warning signs require investigation.

Hands-On Exercise

Work through a role-based scenario involving RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience. Validate the expected path, test “a profile policy improving one user group while breaking an application for another,” choose the safest corrective action, and capture the reasoning and outcome in application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence.

1. Record the starting state, assumptions, identities, topology, and expected outcome.
2. Execute the planned workflow and collect evidence at each material checkpoint.
3. Test one valid path, one boundary condition, and the stated failure scenario.
4. Document the correction, retest result, rollback option, and follow-up owner.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

When RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience produces an unexpected result, reproduce the issue with the same scope, identity, workload, and time context. Inspect application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence, test whether “a profile policy improving one user group while breaking an application for another” explains the evidence, apply the smallest reversible correction, and retest an unaffected path for regression.

Validation Checklist

• Configuration and source state used for RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience are versioned or otherwise traceable.
• Application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence shows both baseline and accepted result.
• Security, performance, dependency, and resilience side effects are considered where relevant.
• Recovery steps and handover notes are usable by an operations practitioner.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply RDS farms, published applications, profiles, Dynamic Environment Manager, App Volumes concepts, policies, USB and printing controls, client settings, and user experience, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with application-and-profile delivery test with persona evidence.