A council briefing claims Horizon is a self-contained appliance island. Which bundle of server technologies does Digital Workspace still depend on?

Digital Workspace/Horizon is not a self-contained appliance island; it still depends on Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and SQL Server as a bundle of civic server technologies. In municipal EUC terms, treat the endpoint as a window into city systems when the architecture says so, not as the system of record for the files or apps in the stem. Distractor concept: UAG alone without directory or database is incomplete. Distractor concept: NSX overlay networking alone is not the dependency bundle. Distractor concept: Intelligent Hub on each phone alone does not host the server-side Horizon dependencies. Exam caveat: Remember the boring datacenter stack beneath Horizon when briefings claim "appliance island." Operational check: Checklist the pod: Windows Server for brokers, AD, DNS, DHCP, SQL—and show council each dependency owner. Record the chosen control and the rejected failure modes in the civic change ticket or runbook so on-call staff and auditors share the same rationale after the next maintenance window. Re-validate after personnel or image changes that the same control still meets the city's continuity, security, and support expectations for this service. Helpdesk coaching tip aligned to the conversational brief: Horizon still sits on the boring civic datacenter stack: Windows Server to host brokers, AD for people, DNS and DHCP for names and addresses, SQL for events. It is not an island of UAG, NSX, or Hub alone.