Administration

What to do next
Add accounts for the clients.
Add Accounts for Clients in Kiosk Mode
You can use the vdmadmin command to add accounts for clients to the configuration of a
Connection Server group. After you add a client, it is available for use with a Connection
Server instance on which you have enabled authentication of clients. You can also update the
configuration of clients, or remove their accounts from the system.
You must run the vdmadmin command on one of the Connection Server instances in the group
that contains the Connection Server instance that clients will use to connect to their published
desktops.
When you add a client in kiosk mode, Horizon 7 creates a user account for the client in Active
Directory. If you specify a name for a client, this name must start with a recognized prefix string,
such as "custom-", or with an alternate prefix string that you have defined in ADAM, and it cannot
be more than 20 characters long. If you do not specify a name for a client, Horizon 7 generates
a name from the MAC address that you specify for the client device. For example, if the MAC
address is 00:10:db:ee:76:80, the corresponding account name is cm-00_10_db_ee_76_80.
You can only use these accounts with Connection Server instances that you enable to authenticate
clients.
Important Do not use a specified name with more than one client device. Future releases might
not support this configuration.
Procedure
u Run the vdmadmin command using the -domain and -clientid options to specify the domain
and the name or the MAC address of the client.
vdmadmin -Q -clientauth -add [-b authentication_arguments] -domain domain_name -clientid
client_id [-password "password" | -genpassword] [-ou DN] [-expirepassword | -noexpirepassword]
[-group group_name | -nogroup] [-description "description_text"]
Option
Description
-clientid client_id Specifies the name or the MAC address of the client.
-description " description_text " Creates a description of the account for the client device in Active Directory.
-domain domain_name Specifies the domain for the client.
-expirepassword Specifies that the expiry time for the password on the client's account is the
same as for the Connection Server group. If no expiry time is defined for the
group, the password does not expire.
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