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Horizon Client options

Horizon Client options

- [Rick] In this video, we'll learn about the function of the Horizon Client, and we'll take a look at some of the different Horizon Client options that you have available, and what the pros and cons of each of these clients are. So, here we see our nice little diagram here, and on the left, highlighted in red, we've got our Horizon Client. So, just to reiterate what we learned in the last lesson, this is the actual physical device that our user sits in front of. There's a whole bunch of options that we have for this client device, but basically, it's a dumb client. It's going to connect up to the connection server, it's going to have a display protocol session between the client and the View Agent, and that's how it's going to present everything that's happening on my virtual desktop, is over that display protocol session to the virtual desktop. So, that's where all the real work is happening, on the virtual desktop itself. If I've got a program running, if I'm looking at a webpage…

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