Access the Horizon Cloud Administration Console to perform the initial setup of the Horizon Cloud tenant. The browser is already pointed to the console. Normally to access the console, browse to the URL sent to you from VMware when service is initiated.

Note: For lab purposes we are utilizing self-signed certs, which is why the browser is reporting the connection is not secured. This is not the case in a production environment. Customers exchange live certificates as a part of the Horizon Cloud deployment process.

The one-time user name and password have been entered for you. This account is only utilized for the initial configuration process. Once Horizon Cloud is added to an Active Directory domain, the provided account credentials will no longer allow you to access the tenant.

1. Enter username: Horizonlocaladmin
2. Enter password: VMware1!
3. Click Login

The Horizon Cloud Administration Console defaults to the Getting Started page on the first login. This page provides you with a step-by-step overview of the initial configuration process that must be completed. The first step is configuring Active Directory. You need to register your Active Directory domain in the Tenant before you can allocate services or assign specific roles and permissions.

1. Under General Setup/Active Directory click Configure

An LDAP bind account is required for the initial LDAP bind/query. This account can be Read Only.

2. Enter the following information:

NETBIOS Name: DF

DNS Domain Name: df.local

Bind Username: dbind

Bind Password: VMware1!

3. Click on Domain Bind
4. Now you will need to add the following information to join it to the Active Directory Domain

Join Username: djoin

Join Password: VMware1!

Primary DNS Server IP: 10.10.10.10

Secondary DNS Server IP: 10.10.10.10

5. Select Save

Once you have bound your Horizon Cloud tenant to a directory, define the domain user or group that will have full administrative control within the tenant. This role is defined as Super-Administrator within Horizon Cloud.

1. In the Active Directory Search box enter Tena

The Tenant Admins Group appears below the search box.

2. Select Tenant Admins Group

DF\Tenat Admins should now appear under Selected User Group

3. Click Save

The Horizon Cloud Administration Console is prompting for a new login. You will now have to login to the console with an Active Directory account. In this case, a user account that is part of the Tenant Admins Group we just choose.

4. Enter the following information:

username: hcadmin

password: VMware1!

5. Click Login

By default, subscription to the Customer Experience Improvement Program is enabled. The CEIP provides VMware with diagnostic and usage information to improve Horizon Cloud. The information sent does not personally identify any individual. For the purposes of this lab, we will change our membership to the program to NO.

1. Click the green oval that says YES to change it to NO.
2. Click Save

Under Settings there are several controls to manage the tenant. We will now begin to explore these options to access settings:

1. Click Settings

In the general settings section, you can view and modify information, including the client's session timeout, how HTML Access in handled, as well as contact information. In this case are going to add Admin contact information.

1. Click General Settings
2. Click Edit
3. In the Edit Screen click the scroll bar twice to scroll down to the Contact Info section
4. Under Contact Info enter the following information:

Name: VMware Admin

Phone: 1-800-888-8888

Email: VMware@VMware.com

6. Click Save
7. Click the scroll bar to scroll down to the bottom of the General Settings page. You should now see the contact information listed

The Active Directory window is where you would go if you needed to change your Active Directory Settings. To navigate there:

1. Click Settings

2. Click Active Directory

You can then click edit, and make any modifications that may be required. We do not need to make any Active Directory changes now.

There are two built-in roles provided in the Horizon Cloud environment. The first one is the Super-Administrator. This role has access to all all functionality and can save changes. You also have the Demo-Administrator. This role also has access to all the functionality but does not have the ability to save changes. To assign or modify membership to these roles perform the following task.

1. Click Settings
2. Click Roles & Permissions

We are now going to add a domain group to the Demo Administrator role

3. In Roles & Permissions, select Demo Administrator
4. Click Edit
5. Click the User Group box and enter the name Dem
6. Select the Demo Admins - Tech Marketing group
7. Confirm DF\Demo Admins - Tech Marketing is listed under Selected User Group
8. Click Save

You can setup file shares in Horizon Cloud, that will be used to import data into Horizon Cloud from your environment. These file shares are called Locations. One use case for a location is to store the most up to date Horizon and DaaS agent files for your desktops. In this lab we are going to set up this type of location which intended for agent updates. To add a new location:

1. Click Settings
2. Click Locations
3. Click New
4. Enter the following information for the file share:

Name: Agents

Domain: Confirm DF is listed

Username: administrator

Password: VMware1!

Type: confirm Agents is selected

Source Path: \\HZA-HOL-FS01.df.local\AGENTS

5. Click Save
6. Confirm the Agents share is now listed with a status of green

The default view when you log into Horizon Cloud is the Getting Started page. You can also choose to have the Dashboard as your default page instead of the Getting Started page. The dashboard page provides an array of information including notifications, activities, reports, and general environmental conditions. To set the Dashboard page to start every time you login:

1. Click Settings
2. Click Getting Started
3. Click the Scroll bar to scroll to the bottom of the page.
4. Click YES to change it to no in the Getting Started Preferences Show at Startup box
5. Click Yes to confirm you want to hide the Getting Started Wizard
6. Click the Monitor Icon

This will now be your default view when you login to the Horizon Cloud. If at any point in time in your production environment you wish to change your default screen back to the Startup Wizard, simply go to Setting and Select Getting Started. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and change NO to YES

Note: We have not configured any desktops or applications yet so all Dashboard items are at zero. We will explore the dashboard further in the later modules.