Conference Season 2026 It’s conference season soon, and 2026 is promising to be the Powershell- and EUC year of the decade! This post is about events I’m either attending or that’s looking exceedingly worthwhile.

I wrote about some of the events to be excited for in 2026!

#EUCWorld #GitHubUniverse #HashiConf #IBMTechxchange #MSBuild #MSIgnite #MVPBuzz #MVPSummit #NowandNext26 #NVIDIAGTC #OmnissaONE #PSConfEU #PSHSummit26 #RHSummit #VMUGConnect #VMwareExplore

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Omnissa ONE EMEA 2025 Amsterdam Recap I attended Omnissa ONE EMEA 2025 in Amsterdam in early October - a celebration of its first year as a standalone company! It was one of the three editions of the conference, this year held in Las Vega...

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Two amazing days at #OmnissaONE Amsterdam last week! 🙌

Inspiring sessions, great people, and a Workspace ONE Roundtable.

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Meet the ITQ team and discover how we’re helping organizations modernize their digital workspace.

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We’re back at @omnissacommunity.bsky.social ONE 2025 🚀Connecting with peers, customers, and partners on the future of the digital workspace.

See you there!

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Cloudy with a Chance of Desktops Episode 2 – Omnissa ONE Global Recap with Omnissa Tech Insiders On this episode of Cloudy with a Chance of Desktops, I'm joined by Omnissa Tech Insiders Jens Hennig, Chris Hildebrandt, Stephen Wagner, Tony Foster, and Rob Ryan to recap the recent Omnissa ONE conference.

The latest episode of Cloudy with a Chance of Desktops is up. Join the #Omnissa #TechInsiders as we discuss #OmnissaONE

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Last session is about integrating Omnissa with your ecosystem using their platform APIs. I’m not going to live-tweet this one.

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Horizon on AHV will run on CE. So you can run it in a home lab.

And that wraps up the session.

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When registering a VM as a golden image, it will register it in Horizon LDAP with a machine name and a pairing key. You can't have two machines registered as a golden image with the same name. If updating the agent, you need to rename the VM

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Also recommending removing the CoPilot Windows Store app as this will cause sysprep will fail.

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New flow for building Horizon Golden Images. One, recommending adding a TPM. There is also a box to register if the machine will be a golden image that will register it with a connection server, and leave the Instant Clone Agent installed as this is used for Cloneprep. #OmnissaONE

When updating a template, you go back to the original VM, do your updates, and then create a new template. You then update the pool to use the new template.

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Process for creating a golden image in Prism Central:
Create and customize your VM
Create a template from the VM

Also need to create a Compute Profile in Horizon. Compute profile defines CPU & Memory resources and selected at pool creation. This reduces number of templates to manage.
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Can you get Instant Clones on AHV? No, but you can get the same outcome using native technologies in Nutanix.

Instant Clones is more about the customization of the VM using Cloneprep, not the method of creating the VM clone.

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Clone Customization: sysprep is supported today, Cloneprep is still being worked on. #OmnissaONE

The Horizon Architecture and process for adding Prism Central for management is basically the same as Horizon on vSphere.

It should look and feel the same operationally #OmnissaONE

When cloning VMs on Horizon, it's cloning the disk extent and doing copy-on-write. #OmnissaONE

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Now getting an overview of the Nutanix platform. I'm not going to cover this. If you want to know more about Nutanix, I would check out nutanixbible.com or the official documentation. #OmnissaONE

Horizon is now managing Sysprep profiles and not relying on the hypervisor to manage it. This allows Horizon to manage sysprep more efficiently and use a standardized template to make it run a little faster.

Horizon does not touch the golden image, it makes a clone of it

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Supporting multiple hypervisors required rewriting the provisioning engine to make it more generic. #OmnissaONE

Migrating pools to AHV requires creating new Horizon automated pools. Persistent Desktops can be migrated with Nutanix Move.

Note: this will require putting full clone desktops into a manual pool

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Supported deployment scenarios:
Greenfield and Brownfield: within pod (mixed vSphere and AHV)
Cloud-Pod Architecture with mix of pods on both platforms

All on Nutanix - AHV in private cloud or NC2 on AWS (GCP/Azure coming later)

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Horizon on Nutanix was announced at .Next in May 2025 with an over-subscribed Beta that ended in July. Limited Availability started in July and GA will be following in the future.

Limited Availability has been mentioned a few times - it's fully supported by Omnissa just limited access. #OmnissaONE

Customer Profiles for Horizon on AHV:
Existing Horizon 8 and Nutanix customers considering AHV migration
Existing Horizon 8 customers looking to migrate to Nutanix
Existing Nutanix customers looking at Horizon #OmnissaONE

Multi-hypervisor strategy was one of the first things that Omnissa started looking at when they learned they were being spun out. Wanted to give customers the choice of where they run their EUC workloads.

Nutanix was first choice because of their EUC background and mature platform #OmnissaONE

Next session is Providing Ultimate Flexibility with Horizon 8 on Nutanix AHV. #OmnissaONE

WS1 Assist is fully supported on Windows Server. Remote Access, Remote Shell, File Management, and log gathering is supported. #OmnissaONE

As mentioned yesterday in co-management session, assignment and removal is being decoupled. Admins can define how an app will be removed when policy is changed or enterprise wipe is triggered. This applies to both servers and desktops.

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There are a few things different with Server Management.

New default behavior on servers is to leave all resources on servers. Admins have to explicitly tell WS1 UEM to remove something. Goal is to avoid scenarios where a UEM Admin will accidentally take down a business.

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