At this stage of the book, you should have a good understanding of the Horizon architecture and have installed and deployed the software in an example environment.
The next step, covered in this chapter, is to build the virtual desktop gold image, or base image, that Horizon is going to use to create a virtual desktop machine to deliver to the end users.
This base image will contain the operating system, patches and updates, configuration settings, and potentially any applications. It will also have the Horizon Agent installed, plus any additional agents such as ...