What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started with VMware Horizon Workspace, gives you an overview of all the components you need to have in place before you start the installation process of Horizon Workspace.

Chapter 2, Design, Install, and Configure, covers the basic sizing, configuration, and the installation of Horizon Workspace 1.5. After making sure that all the prerequisites are in place, we will start deploying Horizon Workspace.

Chapter 3, Horizon Files, looks at the architecture behind Horizon Files and then enables and configures this feature.

Chapter 4, Integrating SaaS Applications, covers one of the core features of Horizon Workspace, that is the ability to entitle and consume web-based applications. In this chapter, we will talk about SAML authentication and how to configure Horizon Workspace to broker to SaaS applications.

Chapter 5, Mobile Management, discusses the mobile management capabilities of VMware Horizon Workspace 1.5, including configuration, device enrollment, and how to entitle users to mobile applications.

Chapter 6, Integrating ThinApp Packages, will look at how to manage Windows-based applications using VMware ThinApp.

Chapter 7, Horizon View Integration, will talk about how to integrate Horizon View so that the users can access their virtual desktop directly from their Workspace.

Chapter 8, Troubleshooting, will cover the most common issues that come up during the installation and configuration of Horizon Workspace.

Appendix, Useful Links, provides a number of useful links for additional information and references used in this book.