Application publishing

Application (Apps) publishing using RDS hosted apps allows Horizon Client access to applications along with full desktops running on Windows Remote Desktop Services hosts.

Let's take a moment and explain what this means and how it's different than a straight VDI solution. VDI delivers the entire desktop to a particular user. The desktop is an entire virtual machine with the OS and the applications. RDS uses the capabilities of Microsoft RDS (previously known as Terminal Services) and allows multiple users the ability to connect to a single OS but still allow individual desktop instances with the applications. With RDS, while you can present the full desktop, you can also just present an application without the rest of the desktop around it, as shown in the following screenshot:

This reduces the need for multiple OS instances and also provides for better utilization of the resources. This is just as important is the reduced need for Microsoft licenses.

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