So…there is a surprise second post for today. This one is a short one, and if you’ve been interested in automating your Horizon deployment, you will like this.

Previous versions of Horizon had APIs – most famously the SOAP API that was exposed through PowerShell. Horizon 7 first introduced a REST API last year, but that API was limited to mostly read-only operations.

One of the new features of Horizon 2006 is an expand REST API. The expanded REST API provides administrators with the ability to easily automate pool management and entitlement tasks. You can learn more about the REST API by reviewing the Getting Started guide on Techzone, and you can browse the entire API on VMware Code.

Adopting this API to develop applications for Horizon has gotten easier. Andrew Morgan from the VMware End User Computing business unit has developed a .Net library around the Horizon Server REST API and released it on Github. This library supports both .Net 4.7 and .Net Core. The Github repo includes code samples for using the library with C# and Visual Basic.

I’m excited to see investment in this REST API as it will help customers, partners, and the community build applications to enhance and extend their Horizon deployments.

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