5.2

Create a User Account for View Composer
If you use View Composer, you must create a user account in Active Directory to use with View Composer.
View Composer requires this account to join linked-clone desktops to your Active Directory domain.
To ensure security, you should create a separate user account to use with View Composer. By creating a
separate account, you can guarantee that it does not have additional privileges that are defined for another
purpose.
You can give the account the minimum privileges that it needs to create and remove computer objects
in a specified Active Directory container. For example, the View Composer account does not require domain
administrator privileges.
Procedure
1 In Active Directory, create a user account in the same domain as your View Connection Server host or in
a trusted domain.
2 Add the Create Computer Objects, Delete Computer Objects, and Write All Properties permissions to
the account in the Active Directory container in which the linked-clone computer accounts are created or
to which the linked-clone computer accounts are moved.
The following list shows all the required permissions for the user account, including permissions that are
assigned by default:
n
List Contents
n
Read All Properties
n
Write All Properties
n
Read Permissions
n
Reset Password
n
Create Computer Objects
n
Delete Computer Objects
NOTE If you select the Allow reuse of pre-existing computer accounts setting for a desktop pool, you
only need to add the following permissions:
n
List Contents
n
Read All Properties
n
Read Permissions
n
Reset Password
3 Make sure that the user account's permissions apply to the Active Directory container and to all child
objects of the container.
What to do next
Specify
the account in View Administrator when you configure View Composer for vCenter Server and when
you configure and deploy linked-clone desktop pools.
Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
You must configure View Manager to connect to the vCenter Server instances in your View deployment.
vCenter Server creates and manages the virtual machines that View Manager uses as desktop sources.
If you run vCenter Server instances in a Linked Mode group, you must add each vCenter Server instance to
View Manager separately.
View Manager connects to the vCenter Server instance using a secure channel (SSL).
Chapter 1 Configuring View Connection Server
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