Installation

Creating Groups for Users
You should create groups for different types of users in Active Directory. For example, you can create a
group called Horizon 7 Users for your end users and another group called Horizon 7 Administrators for
users that will administer remote desktops and applications.
Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
You must create a user account in Active Directory to use with vCenter Server. You specify this user
account when you add a vCenter Server instance in Horizon Administrator.
You must give the user account privileges to perform certain operations in vCenter Server. You can create
a vCenter Server role with the appropriate privileges and assign the role to the vCenter Server user. The
list of privileges you add to the vCenter Server role varies, depending on whether you use Horizon 7 with
or without View Composer. See Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server, View Composer, and
Instant Clones for information on configuring these privileges.
If you install View Composer on the same machine as vCenter Server, you must add the vCenter Server
user to the local Administrators group on the vCenter Server machine. This requirement allows View to
authenticate to the View Composer service.
If you install View Composer on a different machine than vCenter Server, you do not have to make the
vCenter Server user a local administrator on the vCenter Server machine. However, you do have to
create a standalone View Composer Server user account that must be a local administrator on the View
Composer machine.
Creating a User Account for a Standalone View Composer
Server
If you install View Composer on a different machine than vCenter Server, you must create a domain user
account in Active Directory that Horizon 7 can use to authenticate to the View Composer service on the
standalone machine.
The user account must be in the same domain as your Connection Server host or in a trusted domain.
You must add the user account to the local Administrators group on the standalone View Composer
machine.
You specify this user account when you configure View Composer settings in Horizon Administrator and
select Standalone View Composer Server. See Configure View Composer Settings.
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