Integrating Omnissa Horizon® with the Omnissa Access service lets you provide users the ability to access their assigned Horizon desktops and applications from the Omnissa Intelligent Hub app or portal. You can integrate independent Horizon pods, which consist of Horizon Connection Server instances, and pod federations, which contain multiple pods and can span multiple sites and data centers.
You deploy and manage desktop and application pools in the Horizon Console. You also create user assignments for Active Directory users and groups in Horizon, not in Omnissa Access. You must sync these users and groups to the Omnissa Access service from Active Directory before setting up the integration with Horizon.
To integrate Horizon pods and pod federations with Omnissa Access, you create virtual apps collections in the Omnissa Access console. A collection contains the configuration information for the pods and pod federation, sync settings, and other settings. You then sync the collection, which propagates Horizon resources and assignments to Omnissa Access.
In the Omnissa Access console, you can view the Horizon desktops and applications. You can also view user and group assignments for these desktops and applications.
End users can run their assigned desktops and applications from the Intelligent Hub app or portal. They can access the desktops and applications over HTML in a browser or over a supported display protocol in the Horizon Client.
Note: For an Omnissa Access tenant that has Omnissa Identity Service enabled, integration with Omnissa Horizon is only supported for Horizon pods that have True SSO enabled. True SSO is configured in the Horizon Console (see the Horizon documentation: Setting up True SSO). In the Omnissa Access console, the True SSO option must be selected for pods that have True SSO configured (see Configure Horizon Pods and Pod Federations in Omnissa Access).
Note: If Okta is configured as the third-party identity provider in Omnissa Identity Service, Omnissa Access integration with Horizon is not supported.
Supported Omnissa Horizon Versions and Features
See the Product Interoperability Matrix for the Horizon versions that are compatible with Omnissa Access.
Omnissa Access supports the following Horizon features:
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Integration with independent Horizon pods
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Integration with pod federations, created using the Cloud Pod Architecture feature
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HTML Access
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Certificate SSO
Note: Omnissa Access also supports SSO to Microsoft Office 365 applications from Microsoft Entra Hybrid domain-joined Horizon desktops and published apps using certificate-based authentication. See Configuring Single Sign-on to Microsoft Office 365 applications (Horizon published apps and desktops) for information.
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