Lab 02: App Volumes administration: Application / Package / Program - Assign and validate

Objective and Tasks

This exercise will have you log into the App Volumes Manager admin console. Get a look and feel of the console, navigate through the INVENTORY, take a look at the configuration tasks available under the APPLICATIONS, PACKAGES and PROGRAMS tabs. Finally assign an existing application, validate the package is assigned and login to the Horizon Client, connect into a virtual desktop and validate the delivery f the App Volumes Package

  1. Log into the App Volumes Manager admin console
  2. Navigate the configuration items in the Inventory section.
  3. Assign an Application
  4. Log in to a Horizon virtual desktop and validate the delivery of the App Volumes Package
  5. Exploring the DIRECTORY tab
Expand or collapse content Task 1: Log into the App Volumes Manager admin console

Login to the ControlCenter VM, launch the browser and log into the App Volumes admin console for Appvol-02a

  1. Connect to the ControlCenter VM
    • On the right side of the browser, click on the Resources tab
    • From the list of virtual machines, click on ControlCenter
  2. Log into the ControlCenter VM
    • Username: administrator
    • Password: Pa$$w0rd
    • Domain: OmnissaTraining
  3. Open the App Volumes Manager admin console for Appvol-02a.
    • On your ControlCenter desktop, open the Google Chrome browser.
    • Click the bookmark on the bookmark bar for appvol-02a
  4. This will connect you to the App Volumes Manager admin console at https://appvol-02a.omnissatraining.com
    • Username: administrator
    • Password: Pa$$w0rd
    • Domain: OmnissaTraining
Expand or collapse content Task 2: Navigate the configuration items in the INVENTORY section.

Configure Application assignments, explore the configuration for the Notepad++ application, package and program.

Set-confirm Package marker is set to CURRENT.

Validate the details under the Programs

  1. From the admin console, explore the Applications section
    • Click on the Inventory > Applications tab
  2. Expand the Notepad++ application (np++), validate the current assignment state. Go ahead an configure an assignment
    • Click the expansion arrow next to the application (np++)
  • We can confirm that Notepad++ has: '0 Assignments'

To edit the owner of the application, expand the target application and click on 'EDIT' button to change the application owner.
You can also enable/disable the RDS Package attachment option. This option specifies if multiple packages of an application can be attached to the same multi-session Remote Desktop Service.

  1. Next explore the Packages tab
    • Click on the Inventory > Packages tab
    • Expand the Notepad++ package (np-8-9-1)
    • Make a note of the Stage, Status, Format columns
    • Identify if the package delivery method: Classic or On-demand
  2. Once a new package is captured, the Marker is not defined
    • Observe the state of the Marker is set to CURRENT
    • Clicking on EDIT, will allow the administrator to change the Package properties such as;
      • Delivery type (Classic or On-demand)
      • Define the Stage of this package in its life-cycle (starting with NEW)
      • Additional properties include a notes section and Prompt for Feedback
      • Click on the Packages tab to go back

If an application has multiple packages, click on the target package version that needs to be delivered as the default package during an assignment by setting that package Marker to CURRENT.

When we start Lab-04, you will update the current Notepad++ 8.9.1 to 8.9.6.2, come back to the Packages tab and change the CURRENT Marker to 8.9.6.2.

  1. Explore the Programs tab, under Inventory section
    • The Notepad++ Programs tab will provide read-only information on;
      • Version number: 8.9.1 for the executable that was captured when Notepad++ was packaged
      • Details on the Publisher is displayed
      • Details of the associated package is also displayed
Expand or collapse content Task 3: Assign an Application

In this section we will target an Active Directory user account 'Horizon-Students', and assign this user to the Notepad++ application

  1. Add an additional assignment to the Notepad++ application
    • Click on Inventory > Applications tab
    • Expand the application np++
    • Click on the ASSIGN button
    • Select Domain = OMNISSATRAINING
    • Search for the Active Directory user 'AppVol_PRODUCTION_Users'
    • From the 'Entity' list, select AppVol_PRODUCTION_Users by clicking on the check-box on the right-hand side
    • Ensure Assignment Type = Marker
    • Click on the ASSIGN button
    • Confirm assignment
  2. Navigate back to the Application tab and confirm one assignment has been configured successfully
    • This will show 'AppVol_PRODUCTION_Users' as the new assignment for the Notepad++ (np++) application.
Expand or collapse content Task 4: Log in to a Horizon virtual desktop and validate the delivery of the App Volumes Package

This section we will have you log into Horizon, via the Horizon Client from the ControlCenter VM. Launch an assigned virtual desktop and validate that Notepad++ has been delivered successfully to the user's session.

  1. Connect to a Horizon 8 virtual desktop (installed with the App Volumes Agent in the previous lab)
    • Minimize the browser and any applications open within the ControlCenter VM
    • From the Desktop, double-click and launch the Omnissa Horizon Client
  2. The Horizon Client is already configured to connect to Horizon 8
    • Double-click on the horizon-02a.omnissatraining.com connection icon within the Horizon Client
    • Authenticate using username: Student1
    • Password: Pa$$w0rd
    • Click Login
    • You should be connected and have the virtual desktop pool: Win11-Site2 and NotepadS2 application listed
  3. Connect to the virtual desktop and launch the Notepad++ application, and confirm the App Volumes package has been attached
    • Double-click on the Win11-Site2 icon
    • Wait for the desktop session to log you in
  4. Once logged in, you will see the Notepad++ application icon on the desktop
    • Double-click and launch the Notepad++ application
    • Notice the App Volumes Agent mount information box pop-up in the bottom-right corner of the desktop
    • Followed by the launching of the Notepad++ application
    • Minimize the Horizon Client desktop session from the Horizon Client toolbar at the top of the screen
    • Proceed to the validation steps shown below
  5. Finally, validate the Package Attachment in the App Volume admin console
    • From the ControlCenter, log back into the App Volumes Admin console
    • Navigate to the Inventory Attachments tab
    • Validate that the Package/Volume 'np-8-9-1' corresponding to Application ' Np++' is reporting as attached to the target virtual desktop.
Expand or collapse content Task 5: Exploring the DIRECTORY tab

Additional administrative steps:

Take a walk through within the App Volumes admin console, review the visible entries reporting from the Directory objects that are Windows endpoints with App Volumes Agents, connected back to App Volumes Manager

  1. Exploring the Active tab from the App Volumes admin console
    • Navigate to the Directory > Active tab
    • Review the Windows endpoints with App Volumes Agents installed, connected to Appvol-02a that are powered ON, and reporting in metrics in the Active tab
  2. Exploring the Users, Computers, Groups, OUs tab
    • Navigate to the Directory > 'Users', 'Computers', 'Groups', 'OUs' tab
    • Review the connected User accounts, Computer accounts
      • User tab: Student1 will reflect '1' in the 'attachment' columns
      • Computer tab: will reflect '1' in the 'attachment' column, for the computer account session you are currently connected to

Under the Directory > Users section, the listing for 'Student1' will reflect as having only an 'Attachment' and not registered under 'Assignment' as the Notepad++ package was assigned to the AD Group 'Horizon-Students' and not a direct assignment to the 'Student1' user account

  • If customers target App Volumes Applications to 'AD Group' objects, that would be listed under the 'Groups' tab
  • If customers target App Volumes Applications to 'AD Organizational Object (OU)' objects, that would be listed under the 'OUs' tab
  1. Complete the lab by logging out of the virtual desktop session and closing the Horizon Client

This concludes the tasks for this lab.

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