Administration

Prepare Active Directory and Horizon 7 for Clients in Kiosk Mode
You must configure Active Directory to accept the accounts that you create to authenticate client
devices. Whenever you create a group, you must also entitle that group to the desktop pool that a
client accesses. You can also prepare the desktop pool that the clients use.
As a best practice, create a separate organizational unit and group to help minimize your work in
administering clients in kiosk mode. You can add individual accounts for clients that do not belong
to any group, but this creates a large administrative overhead if you configure more than a small
number of clients.
Procedure
1 In Active Directory, create a separate organizational unit and group to use with clients in kiosk
mode.
You must specify a pre-Windows 2000 name for the group. You use this name to identify the
group to the vdmadmin command.
2 Create the image or template for the guest virtual machine.
You can use a virtual machine that is managed by vCenter Server as a template for an
automated pool, as a parent for a linked-clone pool, or as a virtual machine in a manual
desktop pool. You can also install and configure applications on the guest operating system.
3 Configure the guest operating system so that the clients are not locked when they are left
unattended.
Horizon 7 suppresses the pre-login message for clients that connect in kiosk mode. If you
require an event to unlock the screen and display a message, you can configure a suitable
application on the guest operating system.
4 In Horizon Administrator, create the desktop pool that the clients will use and entitle the group
to this pool.
For example, you might choose to create a floating-assignment, linked-clone desktop pool as
being most suitable for the requirements of your client application. You might also associate
one or more ThinApp applications with the desktop pool.
Important Do not entitle a client or a group to more than one desktop pool. If you do,
Horizon 7 assigns a remote desktop at random from the pools to which a client is entitled, and
generates a warning event.
5 If you want to enable location-based printing for the clients, configure the Active Directory
group policy setting AutoConnect Location-based Printing for VMware View, which is
located in the Microsoft Group Policy Object Editor in the Software Settings folder under
Computer Configuration.
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