VMware Horizon 8: Deploy and Manage — Lesson 2: Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification

Learning Objectives

• Translate a realistic infrastructure or application requirement into an executable approach for Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification.
• Use broker and UAG deployment record with login-path test to verify configuration, connectivity, security, and expected behavior.
• Explain how to recover safely when external authentication succeeding while the display protocol path remains blocked occurs.

Detailed Topics

• Connection Server installation
• Initial configuration
• Licenses
• Administrators
• Global settings
• Events database
• UAG deployment
• Authentication
• And access verification
• Decision ownership, prerequisites, and acceptance evidence for Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification
• Relevant access, security, capacity, dependency, performance, recovery, and support considerations

Instructor Demonstration

Using realistic infrastructure, identities, and workloads, the instructor demonstrates Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification. Checkpoints are captured in broker and UAG deployment record with login-path test, with discussion of alternatives, side effects, and acceptance conditions.

Hands-On Exercise

Work through a role-based scenario involving Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification. Validate the expected path, test “external authentication succeeding while the display protocol path remains blocked,” choose the safest corrective action, and capture the reasoning and outcome in broker and UAG deployment record with login-path test.

1. Define the requirement and identify dependencies before changing the environment.
2. Create a baseline result that can be compared with later changes.
3. Reproduce the exception and test one hypothesis at a time.
4. Complete the evidence record and obtain peer or instructor review.

Scenario Analysis

• Clarify the service trigger, affected components and roles, prerequisites, and acceptable result for Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification.
• Compare at least two implementation or correction choices and identify which evidence would distinguish them.
• Decide how broker and UAG deployment record with login-path test should be reviewed, approved, retained, and handed to the next owner.

Troubleshooting Guidance

For a failure in Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification, separate access, configuration, compute, network, storage, integration, and timing causes. Compare the observed sequence with broker and UAG deployment record with login-path test; if “external authentication succeeding while the display protocol path remains blocked” is confirmed, document why broader changes were rejected.

Validation Checklist

• Configuration and source state used for Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification are versioned or otherwise traceable.
• Broker and uag deployment record with login-path test shows both baseline and accepted result.
• Security, performance, dependency, and resilience side effects are considered where relevant.
• Recovery steps and handover notes are usable by an operations practitioner.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can apply Connection Server installation, initial configuration, licenses, administrators, global settings, events database, UAG deployment, authentication, and access verification, explain the decisions made, and defend the result with broker and UAG deployment record with login-path test.