Installation

Prerequisites

To install IAP Desktop, you'll need:

Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 or higher
Internet access (at least to Google APIs), either directly, via NAT, or via a HTTP proxy

You do not need admin rights unless you are installing on Windows Server.

To use IAP Desktop, you'll also need:

A Google Cloud project. If you are a Project Owner of the project, you have all permissions needed to use IAP Desktop. Otherwise, you need a combination of the following roles:
- Compute Viewer (to list and access VM instances)
- IAP-secured Tunnel User (to use IAP TCP forwarding)
A firewall rule that permits access from Identity-Aware-Proxy to VM instances. You can create such a firewall rule by using the following command:
```
gcloud compute firewall-rules create allow-rdp-ingress-from-iap \
    --direction=INGRESS \
    --action=allow \
    --rules=tcp:3389,tcp:22 \
    --source-ranges=35.235.240.0/20
```
For further details on setting up permissions and firewall rules, see Preparing your project for IAP TCP forwarding.

To install IAP Desktop on your computer, follow these steps:

Double-click the downloaded installer package
Follow the instructions of the installer. Once you reach the Completed IAP Desktop Setup Wizard step, click Finish to launch IAP Desktop:

You now set up IAP Desktop for first use:

On the Sign-in dialog, click Sign in with Google:
Follow the instructions in the browser to authorize IAP Desktop to access your Google Cloud project.
In the Add project dialog, select the Google Cloud project that contains the instances that yout want to connect to, then click Add project.
Notice that the project and all Windows VM instances are added to the Project Explorer window:

This completes the installation of IAP Desktop.

IAP Desktop is an open-source project and not an officially supported Google product.

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