This article covers the creation of your Workspot installation and is part of the Getting Started with Workspot article series.
Sign up for Workspot Control
Sign up here for a dedicated Workspot Control tenant - https://control.workspot.com/signup
Provide the First Name and Last Name
Provide the Company Name
Provide a valid email address that will be associated with the Workspot Control
The control tenant will require a valid email domain
Additional email\UPN domains are supported
Select “United States” for the Deployment Location.
Note: At the time of this writing, the “EU” Deployment Location is not yet available.
Control Initial Setup
The following assumes that the Workspot Control Administrator has received the invite email from Workspot to set their Control Administrator password and is logging into Workspot Control for the very first time.
Log onto Workspot Control using the email address you signed up with.
From a browser navigate to https://control.workspot.com and enter your credentials
Once you successfully authenticate you will be presented with the initial configuration screen to ‘Configure Directory Services’
You will need to ‘Click here to configure’ to get to the Configure Directory Services page.
Select ‘Active Directory – including Azure Active Directory with Client Authentication’ to continue with Active Directory authentication for VDI desktops with an optional client authentication configured as Azure Active Directory or Active Directory.
Click Continue.
Note: For Azure Active Directory authentication on Azure AD joined VDI desktops, see Configuring an Azure AD-only Control Account.
Next step is to apply Named Licenses to users by adding users to the Named License Group. Click on Users > Groups > Configure Named License Group.
Select None for Directory to manually add users and apply Named Licenses. Click Add User. Select checkbox for user(s) and click on Add.
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Next step: Create Public/Private Cloud (Step #4 on Getting Started with Workspot)