Administration

You can assign a machine to any entitled user. You might want to do this when recovering
from the loss of View LDAP data on a Connection Server instance, or when you want to change
ownership of a particular machine.
After a user connects to a remote desktop that Horizon 7 assigns from a dedicated pool, that
remote desktop remains assigned to the user for the life span of the virtual machine that hosts
the desktop. You might want to remove the assignment of a machine to a user who has left
the organization, who no longer requires access to the desktop, or who will use a desktop in a
different desktop pool. You can also remove assignments for all users who access a desktop pool.
Note The vdmadmin -L command does not assign ownership to View Composer persistent disks.
To assign linked-clone desktops with persistent disks to users, use the Assign User menu option in
Horizon Administrator.
If you do use vdmadmin -L to assign a linked-clone desktop with a persistent disk to a user,
unexpected results can occur in certain situations. For example, if you detach a persistent disk and
use it to recreate a desktop, the recreated desktop is not assigned to the owner of the original
desktop.
Options
The following table shows the options that you can specify to assign a desktop to a user or to
remove an assignment.
Table 12-9. Options for Assigning Dedicated Desktops
Option Description
-d desktop Specifies the name of the desktop pool.
-m machine Specifies the name of the virtual machine that hosts the
remote desktop.
-r Removes an assignment to a specified user, or all
assignments to a specified machine.
-u domain\user Specifies the login name and domain of the user.
Examples
Assign the machine machine2 in the desktop pool dtpool1 to the user Jo in the CORP domain.
vdmadmin -L -d dtpool1 -m machine2 -u CORP\Jo
Remove the assignments for the user Jo in the CORP domain to desktops in the pool dtpool1.
vdmadmin -L -d dtpool1 -u Corp\Jo -r
Remove all user assignments to the machine machine1 in the desktop pool dtpool3.
vdmadmin -L -d dtpool3 -m machine1 -r
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