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Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure - Desktops and Apps

Updated on Mar 02, 2023

In this quick walkthrough we're going show you how to access Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Desktops and Applications from the TestDrive environment

Overview

Log in to TestDrive Portal
Launch the Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and Applications User Portal from the Digital Workspace tab on the dashboard
Login to the Horizon Cloud Desktop User Portal
Connect to available Horizon Cloud Desktops and Apps from the portal

Before You Begin

In order to access the Horizon Cloud Desktop User Portal and launch desktops and applications, please ensure you have the following:

A valid account in the VMware TestDrive environment, sign up here if you don't yet have an account
Activated Horizon Cloud for your account by turning on the service at portal.vmtesdrive.com
Latest Horizon Clients installed, available via direct download here
Network access from your device and TCP & UDP ports 80, 443, 4172 and 8443 enabled

OK let's go, open your favorite web browser and navigate to the TestDrive Portal at:

https://portal.vmtestdrive.com

Click to copy

Once you've logged in, select Digital Workspace under My Products. Then scroll down to Horizon Cloud and click Launch.

On the pop-up menu, under Microsoft Azure, select Desktops and Apps from either Browser or Native Client. Make sure you have the latest Horizon Client installed if choosing choosing Native Client.

In the steps below, we have chosen to Launch via Browser. You will be directed to the Horizon Cloud Desktop User Portal. Enter your TestDrive credentials

Once logged in you will see your available VDI desktops, RDS desktops and applications. Clicking on a desktop or application will launch it in the HTML 5 browser. Launch RDS-Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word launches in the browser. Feel free to add your own text, shapes, and graphs, using it just as you normally would a natively installed version of Word.

In order to launch other applications or a desktop, click the sidebar tab on the left to expand the HTML Access UI. In the next example, we will click on Fed-RDSH-DT.