Horizon Advanced Edition

Horizon Advanced Edition is all about virtual desktop and application delivery and management. Advanced Edition is the first edition that includes application publishing as part of the View solution, allowing an application running on a Microsoft RDSH backend to be published via the View client using the PCoIP protocol, HTML, or VMware Blast Extreme. This feature means that a user can now just have an individual application delivered to their client device, rather than a full-blown desktop.

Also included in the Advanced Edition is a unified workspace solution that delivers a unified workspace, so that users can select applications from a catalog of entitled applications. These applications can be ThinApp packages, SaaS-based applications, XenApp published applications, and anything from Microsoft Office 365.

The Advanced Edition also used to include VMware Mirage, so that you could deliver centralized image management for physical desktops. However, that product is now at its end-of-life, along with Horizon Flex. Although you can no longer purchase these products, VMware are still offering technical support up until June 30, 2020 for those customers who have them deployed.

Finally, Advanced Edition includes support for Skype, VMware Identity Manager, and VSAN.