This documentation topic provides the history of substantive changes to Onboarding to Horizon Cloud for Microsoft Azure and Horizon Pods — Deployment Guide.
Note: Only substantive and significant changes made to the guide's topics starting from September 17, 2019 are provided. Details about revisions prior to that date are not available. Also, minor content revisions such as fixing typos, format changes such as turning lists into tables, and other such insignificant changes are not provided.
April 2025
January 2025
September 2024
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| 16 SEPT 2024 | Updated the Known Issues page's 'Microsoft Azure Subscription Related Known Issues' section to indicate a previously reported known issue is now resolved. |
May 2024
November 2023
October 2023
May 2023
April 2023
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| 27 APR 2023 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the April 2023 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
| 17 APR 2023 | Added two new required destination URLs to the DNS names table for the Horizon Edge Virtual Appliance deployment for Horizon Infrastructure Monitoring. |
February 2023
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| 21 FEB 2023 | Updated some of the data in the DNS names table's Proxy Traffic column for a Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure deployment. |
| 13 FEB 2023 | Added a Proxy Traffic column to the table of DNS names to indicate whether network traffic goes through the proxy when the Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure deployment's configuration includes a proxy. |
January 2023
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| 11 JAN 2023 | A known issue about Horizon Cloud Connector added to the Known Issues page. |
October 2022
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| 20 OCT 2022 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the October 2022 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
August 2022
June 2022
April 2022
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| 26 APR 2022 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the April 2022 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
March 2022
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| 9 MAR 2022 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the March 2022 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
February 2022
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| 8 FEB 2022 | Added a limitation into the Horizon Cloud - Known Limitations about how the console does not prevent you from using an image obtained from origins other than the Azure Marketplace, even though to be supported for use in Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure, all imported base images must be built from Windows-based VMs that are sourced from the Azure Marketplace. |
| 3 FEB 2022 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the February 2022 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
November 30, 2021
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| 30 NOV 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the November 30, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
October 12, 2021
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| 12 OCT 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the October 12, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
September 7, 2021
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| 7 SEP 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the September 7, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
August 18, 2021
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| 18 AUG 2021 | Updates in the topic about creating the required service principal to align with the new behavior in the Microsoft Azure portal that limits the duration of the secret key's expiration to no greater than two (2) years. |
August 10, 2021
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| 10 AUG 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the August 10, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
July 15, 2021
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| 15 JUL 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the July 15, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
June 29, 2021
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| 29 JUN 2021 | Updated the following topics to add guidance about which VM models to select for the Unified Access Gateway appliances in a pod's external and internal gateway configuration.
- First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Service Limits
- First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Requirements Checklist For New Pod Deployments Starting From the Service Update on April 4, 2024
- First-Gen Tenants - Specify the Horizon Cloud Pod's Gateway Configuration
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June 9, 2021
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| 9 JUN 2021 | Updated the following topics to add information about the Europe-3 (Germany) regional control plane instance and to remove mention of the DNS names in the pattern query-prod*. Reachability to the query-prod* DNS names is not required.
- First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Deployments - Host Name Resolution Requirements, DNS Names
- First-Gen Tenants - DNS, Ports, and Protocols Requirements When Using Horizon Cloud Connector and a Horizon Pod
Also, a correction is made to the First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Deployments - Host Name Resolution Requirements, DNS Names topic. The source subnet for the table row about the Cloud Management Service's DNS names in the pattern kinesis.* is the pod's management subnet. Previously, that table row listed the tenant subnet as the source subnet. |
May 20, 2021
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| 20 MAY 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the May 20, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
April 14, 2021
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| 14 APR 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the April 14, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
March 25, 2021
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| 25 MAR 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the March 25, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
March 9, 2021
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| 9 MAR 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the March 9, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
March 1, 2021
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| 1 MAR 2021 | Updates related to the removal of the requirement that the domain join account must be in an Active Directory group that has the Super Administrator role. This requirement is only when your pod fleet has Horizon Cloud pods in Microsoft Azure that are running a manifest older than 1600.0. For additional details, see Service Accounts That Horizon Cloud Requires for Its Operations. |
January 7, 2021
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| 7 JAN 2021 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the January 7, 2021 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
December 15, 2020
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| 15 DEC 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the December 15, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
December 2, 2020
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| 2 DEC 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the December 2, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
November 24, 2020
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| 24 NOV 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the November 24, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
November 4, 2020
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| 4 NOV 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the November 4, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
October 8, 2020
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| 8 OCT 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the October 8, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
July 9, 2020 — October 7, 2020
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| 9 Sep 2020 | Updates made to the screenshots in this guide to align with the availability of the Manage menu on the Getting Started page. Also an update to Horizon Cloud Connector Known Considerations. |
| 18 AUG 2020 | Updates made to align this guide with the Horizon documentation to adopt the terms base image and golden image, as appropriate for each topic's context. |
| 5 AUG 2020 | Updates made to align this guide with the availability of the new regional cloud control plane in Japan. The following documentation topics are updated for that regional control plane's DNS names: First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Deployments - Host Name Resolution Requirements, DNS Names and First-Gen Tenants - DNS, Ports, and Protocols Requirements When Using Horizon Cloud Connector and a Horizon Pod. |
| 13 JUL 2020 | Pods that can have the high availability (HA) feature are now supported for Microsoft Azure Government (US Gov Virginia, US Gov Arizona, US Gov Texas). |
| 9 JUL 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the July 9, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
March 17, 2020 — July 8, 2020
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| 9 JUN 2020 | Updates made to align this guide with the June 9, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. The regional names that appear in the Welcome email have been updated to use human-friendly names. The following doc topic is also updated to align with that change: First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Deployments - Host Name Resolution Requirements, DNS Names |
| 27 MAY 2020 | Updates made to align this guide with the May 27, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
| 12 MAY 2020 | Updates made to align this guide with the May 12, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. Also corrected entries in the table for agent-related ports and protocols requirements. |
| 14 APR 2020 | Updates made to align this guide with the April 13, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
| 17 MAR 2020 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the March 17, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
December 13, 2019 — March 16, 2020
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| 25 FEB 2020 | Updated the following topics for the stated changes:
- Added
Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/virtualNetworkPeerings/read to the list in First-Gen Tenants - When Your Organization Prefers to Use a Custom Role for the First-Gen Horizon Cloud App Registration.
- Added resource provider
Microsoft.Sql to the list in First-Gen Tenants - Create a Horizon Cloud App Registration in the Pod's Subscription.
- Added a row for the jumpbox VM and pod manager VM to reach the Unified Access Gateway VMs using port 9443/TCP to First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud Pod - Ports and Protocols Requirements. This port is required to configure settings in the Unified Access Gateway during pod deployment and whenever editing the pod to change its Unified Access Gateway settings.
- Corrected port 443 to 8433 as the port requirement for traffic from the pod's Unified Access Gateway VMs to the pod's Microsoft Azure load balancer for login authentication traffic, in First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Cloud Pod - Ports and Protocols Requirements.
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| 13 JAN 2020 | Updated proxy-related information for the Horizon Cloud Connector. Updated topics include First-Gen Tenants - Onboarding a Horizon Pod to First-Gen Horizon Cloud Control Plane and First-Gen Tenants - Horizon Pod and Horizon Cloud Connector - Preparing to Onboard to First-Gen Control Plane Services. |
| 6 JAN 2020 | New information added to topics about enabling SSH for the Horizon Cloud Connector appliance, requirements on the Active Directory administration account used to pair the Horizon Cloud Connector with the Horizon Connector Server. |
| 13 DEC 2019 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the December 13, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |
September 17, 2019 — December 12, 2019
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| 21 NOV 2019 | Updated the resource providers list with additional ones needed for a subscription in Microsoft Azure related to the latest pod architecture, in Step 8 of documentation topic First-Gen Tenants - Create a Horizon Cloud App Registration in the Pod's Subscription. |
| 17 SEP 2019 | Updates for the new features corresponding to the September 17, 2020 What's New in the Horizon Cloud Release Notes. |