Error Enabling View Connector in Horizon Suite

Going through the first installation and configuration of Horizon Suite in the lab, and hit a problem I thought I’d share out the fix for…

When doing the “Enable View Servers” configuration…got an error saying:

“Error while saving view pool sync configuration.  To enable View pools, verify that the userPrincipalName is a required attribute and perform a directory synchronization”

Where do I set that?  Strange error message as it doesn’t really spell out WHERE the setting needs to be. (If had paid attention, I would have seen that as an option during the initial Horizon Configuration Wizard…

Well, you have to login to the Connector-VA admin console to fix this if you missed this the first time…

https://connector-va.yourdomain.com:8443/hc/admin/apps/

Click on the User Attributes tab…and select “required” next to userPrincipalName and hit save.

 

Go back to the Workspace Setup Wizard and click on “Sync”…done.