Lab 17: Create a published application pool

Objective and tasks

Horizon published applications are hosted on RDSH server farms. Once you have an RDSH farm configured in Horizon, you can define which applications on those servers you want published (application pools), and then entitle users to them.

In this lab you will create an application pool from the RDSH farm you deployed in a previous lab.

  1. Log in to the Horizon admin console.
  2. Create application pools from an RDSH farm.
  3. Verify the launch of applications from the Horizon Client
Expand or collapse content Task 1: Log in to the Horizon admin console

You will use the Horizon admin console to create a new application pool from the RDSH farm.

  1. Open the Horizon admin console for horizon-01a.
    • On your ControlCenter desktop, open the Google Chrome browser.
    • Click the bookmark on the bookmark bar for horizon-01a
    • This will connect you to the Horizon administrator console at https://Horizon-01a.omnissatraining.com
  2. Login to the Horizon admin console.
    • Username: administrator
    • Password : Pa$$w0rd
    • Domain: OmnissaTraining
Expand or collapse content Task 2: Create application pools from an RDSH farm

In this task, you will create an application pool using the list of applications installed on the RDSH servers in the farm.

  1. Start the new application pool wizard.
    • In the Horizon admin console navigate to Inventory > Applications
    • Click ADD.
    • Select Add from Installed Applications.
  2. Select the pool type and the farm to use.
    • For the Application Pool Type ensure that RDS Farm is selected.
    • Ensure that the previously created farm RDSH-Farm is selected in the drop-down.
  3. Select the applications you want to publish.
    • In the Select installed applications section, select Google Chrome and Notepad.

You can use the filter field to find specific applications.

  1. Set the application launch options.
    • Select Pre-Launch.

The Pre-launch option means that a session starts before a user opens the application in Horizon Client. This feature enables faster start times for frequently used published  applications. But there is an overhead so you probably do not want to pre-launch all applications.

  1. Review the other configuration options available.
    • Investigate the other options on this screen.
    • Click NEXT.

Note that the Entitle Users After Adding Pool option is selected by default. This will cause the user entitlement wizard to launch after you complete the application pool wizard. You can also use the entitle entitlement wizard separately from this sequence.

  1. Define the application names and complete the wizard.
    • On the Edit Applications screen, you can change the ID and Display Names for the chosen application.
    • Leave as the defaults and click SUBMIT.

Entitle the users and groups to the application pool you created.

  1. Select the Users and Groups to entitle.
    • Click ADD.
    • In the row Name/User Name enter horizon in the right-hand box, and click FIND.
    • Tick the box for the row Horizon-Students that is displayed, and click OK.
  2. Close the entitlement wizard.
    • Click OK.

You can add multiple entries for different users and groups to an entitlement.

  1. Verify the applications are shown under Application Pools.
Application Pools
Expand or collapse content Task 3: Verify the launch of applications from the Horizon Client

In this task, you will seamlessly launch the application(s) that were added by the creation of application pools in the previous tasks.

  1. Launch the Omnissa Horizon Client.
    • From the ControlCenter desktop, double click the Omnissa Horizon Client.

Depending on which other labs you have already completed, you may have to add a new server entry to the client for your new Horizon 8 pod.

If you have already added it to the Horizon Client, just double-click the horizon-01a.omnissatraining.com tile to connect.

  1. Add a new Horizon 8 Pod to the Horizon Client.

In this lab, you will use the Connection Server FQDN. In a production deployment of a pod with multiple Connection Servers the load balancer virtual IP address or name would be used instead of an individual Connection Server address.

  1. Login and authenticate.
    • Username: Student1
    • Password : Pa$$w0rd
    • Click Login.
  2. Review the entitlements for Student1 in the Horizon-01a pod, noting that the published applications you created are now present.
  3. Launch a published application.
    • Click on either Google Chrome or Notepad to launch the application.

Note that the application is displayed seamlessly in it's own window on the ControlCenter desktop.

  1. Close the Horizon session.
    • Close the applications you launched.
    • Close the Horizon Client.

This concludes this lab.

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