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11. Horizon Apps

Peter von Oven1  
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Wiltshire, UK
 

So far in this book, we have discussed the delivery of a full-blown virtual desktop machine to your end users. However, as we discussed at the start of this book, that model may not be appropriate.

Maybe you have a group of end users that typically just use a single application. In this case, why would you want or need to provide them with a full virtual desktop machine that requires both resource and management?

In this use case, it may be prudent to just deliver that single app to their end point device and do that by publishing it using a Microsoft RDS solution, but allowing Horizon to broker ...

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