The following steps outline the procedure used to specify the AD user account we created as our Instant Clone Engine Domain Administrator:

1. Log on to the Horizon Administrator console using an AD account that has administrative permissions within Horizon.
2. Open the View Configuration | Instant Clone Domain Admins window within the console.

3. Click on the Add… button in the Instant Clones Engine Domain Administrators window to open the Add Domain Admin window.
4. Provide the User Name: (svc-horizonic) and Password: as shown in the following screenshot, and then click OK to return to the previous window:

5. Verify that the account was added successfully as shown in the following screenshot:

Horizon is now able to deploy Instant Clone desktops using the procedure described in Chapter 10, Creating Horizon Desktop Pools. Note that if the permissions for this account were not granted correctly, we will likely not notice until we attempt to create an Instant Clone desktop pool.