Release date: January 23rd 2023
Welcome to my VMware Horizon series. In this session I will describe how I upgrade the VMware Horizon Agent in my template to v. 2212. One of the coolest new feature in this release, is the support for Apps On Demand and MAK licensing, as described in the Release Notes.
According to VMware’s official documentation, this should be done as step 11 in the supported update sequence.
I start out by downloading the installation media from VMware Customer Connect
As I’ve gone over to using MDT to create Horizon templates, described here: Automating Template Creation & Maintenance, I will update the Horizon Agent in the Deployment Share, and run through the task sequence to create a new template. Before I begin, I open the task sequence and can see that it has found the 2209 Agent in the Deployment Share.
I close the Deployment Workbench MMC before I continue. To update the Horizon Agent in the Deployment Share I will first delete the existing agent and msi-folder from the Deployment Share
Next, I copy the new VMware Horizon Agent executable to the “HorizonAgent” folder in the Deployment Share. It is important to make sure that the executable isn’t blocked by Windows Security, therefore I right-click the exe-file, select Properties and tick the Unblock box, if it exists. This also applies to the other executable files under the “D:\DeploymentShare\VMware” folder.
When I now open the Deployment Workbench MMC, the new Horizon Agent will be identified and the msi-files will be automatically extracted.
As my task sequence is based on the osot.xml template, I will also have to edit this file
I locate the “Horizon Agent” step and adjust the name of the “ExeInstaller” to match the executable I copied in earlier
Once done, I open Deployment Workbench MMC and verify that the correct Horizon Agent is found, and update the deployment Share, before I run through the task sequence and push the new template to my desktop pool.
Having finished the Windows Agent upgrade, I can now proceed with upgrading the agent in my Linux template, covered here: VMware Horizon – Upgrade Horizon Linux Agent to v. 2212
VMware Horizon planning, deployment etc.
Official VMware Horizon 8 Documentation
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