Welcome to my Omnissa Horizon series. In this session I will describe how I upgraded my Omnissa Horizon GPO Templates to v.2512. Any changes to Group Policy templates are discussed in the release notes, below.
Upgrading the GPO templates is done as step 12 in the supported update sequence.
I start out by downloading the Horizon GPO Bundle from Omnissa Customer Connect
Previously I’ve done this manually, but this time I will be doing the admx-upgrade from my management server, using the PowerShell script below. The workflow of the script is as follows:
Prerequisites:
- Permissions to write to SYSVOL PolicyDefinitions folder
- Run script in Administrative Powershell session
Hz-copyAdmx.ps1
# Horizon Admx Upgrade script
$installDir = "C:Install"
New-Item -Path $installDir -type directory -Force
$HzBundle = "<network-path>Omnissa-Horizon-Extras-Bundle*.zip"
Expand-Archive -Path $HzBundle -DestinationPath $installDir
$admxDestination = '<network-path>PolicyDefinitions'
Copy-Item -Path $installDir*.admx -Destination $admxDestination -Recurse -Force
Copy-Item -Path $installDiren-US*.adml -Destination $admxDestinationen-US -Recurse -Force
Remove-Item –path $installDir –Recurse -Force
This concludes my session about upgrading the Horizon GPO Templates to v. 2512. According to the supported upgrade path from Omnissa, this is the final step in upgrading Horizon. With this done, I can log in and test that everything works as expected.
Horizon 8 Documentation:
Omnissa Documentation:
- Rebranding Changes in Omnissa Horizon Products (6000681)
- Horizon 8 Upgrade Overview
- Product Interoperability Matrix
- Omnissa Product Documentation
Horizon planning, deployment etc.
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