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Horizon

The vendor calls it: Omnissa Horizon vendorName: Omnissa Horizon

Virtual desktops and published applications. Under its own name and its own roadmap since the spin-out from VMware.

Omnissa Platinum Partner · soultec.ch/partner, verbatim

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What it is

Horizon delivers desktops and individual applications from the datacentre to whatever device someone is sitting at. The desktop runs centrally and only the display is sent.

What it is for

Workplaces where the data should not leave the datacentre, short-lived environments such as training rooms and test benches, and line-of-business applications that do not sensibly distribute across a thousand endpoints.

It does not replace a managed laptop. The two solve different problems and coexist in most estates.

What changed

VMware’s end-user computing business was spun out and has traded as Omnissa since 2024. The product and the people stayed. The contracts and the roadmap did not. If you still carry Horizon under a VMware agreement, know where you stand before the next renewal.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed practiceReview: true

Draft, not yet reviewed. Horizon projects never fail on Horizon. They fail on profile management, on printing, and on the one line-of-business application that has expected a local install since 2011. We plan those three before the sizing rather than after it.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

soulTec reaches the highest Omnissa partner status

We have reached Platinum, the highest partner status in the newly introduced Omnissa partner programme.

2025-04-01 · posts/soultec-ag-erreicht-hochsten-omnissa-partnerstatus.md · 599 words · 3 min · michael-steg

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An overview of Omnissa Horizon for Citrix customers

A guide for Citrix administrators who want to understand how Horizon is put together, and how its components map onto a Citrix environment.

2025-01-31 · posts/ubersicht-omnissa-horizon-fur-citrix-kunden.md · 1756 words · 9 min · michael-steg

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Leaving Citrix behind, with Omnissa Horizon and soulTec

Wondering how to move off your existing Citrix environment without interrupting operations? More and more of our customers are looking at it because Citrix keeps getting more expensive.

2025-01-24 · posts/wie-du-citrix-hinter-dir-lasst-mit-omnissa-horizon-und-soultec-den-perfekten-umstieg-meistern.md · 737 words · 4 min · michael-steg

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Securing the Horizon connection – part 2

Part 1 covered how locked.properties secures the connection between Horizon Connection Servers and clients, mainly through balancedHost. There are cases where that causes trouble.

2024-12-11 · posts/how-to-horizon-verbindung-absichern-teil-2.md · 305 words · 2 min · raphael-thommen

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Unrecognized requests in the Horizon Console XML API log

The Horizon Console dashboard shows a warning about unrecognized requests on the XML API protocol connection. Usually these have no direct effect on user sessions.

2024-09-14 · posts/unrecognized-requests-xml-api.md · 326 words · 2 min · raphael-thommen

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NVIDIA L40s: Horizon cannot provision desktop pools with vGPU profiles

A customer recently bought several NVIDIA L40s cards to extend their Horizon environment. Provisioning failed for every desktop pool using an L40s vGPU profile.

2024-07-17 · posts/nvidia-l40s-horizon-provisioning-error.md · 412 words · 2 min · raphael-thommen

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Who works with it

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