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You can configure policies to control the behavior of View components, desktop pools, and desktop users. You
use View Administrator to set policies for client sessions and you use Active Directory group policy settings
to control the behavior of View components and certain features.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Setting Policies in View Administrator,” on page 175
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“Using Active Directory Group Policies,” on page 179
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“Using the View Group Policy Administrative Template Files,” on page 180
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“Setting Up Location-Based Printing,” on page 218
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“Using Terminal Services Group Policies,” on page 221
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“Active Directory Group Policy Example,” on page 222
Setting Policies in View Administrator
You use View Administrator to configure policies for client sessions.
You can set these policies to affect specific users, specific desktop pools, or all client sessions users. Policies
that affect specific users and desktop pools are called user-level policies and desktop-level policies. Policies
that affect all sessions and users are called global policies.
User-level policies inherit settings from the equivalent desktop-pool policy settings. Similarly, pool-level
policies
inherit settings from the equivalent global policy settings. A pool-level policy setting takes precedence
over the equivalent global policy setting. A user-level policy setting takes precedence over the equivalent global
and pool-level policy settings.
Lower-level policy settings can be more or less restrictive than the equivalent higher-level settings. For
example, if the global policy that specifies the amount of time a desktop can be checked out is set to 10 minutes
and the equivalent pool-level policy is set to 5 minutes, you can set the equivalent user-level policy to 30 minutes
for any user in the pool.
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Configure Global Policy Settings on page 176
You can configure global policies to control the behavior of all client sessions users.
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Configure Policies for Desktop Pools on page 176
You can configure desktop-level policies to affect specific desktop pools. Desktop-level policy settings
take precedence over their equivalent global policy settings.
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Configure Policies for Desktop Users on page 177
You can configure user-level policies to affect specific users. User-level policy settings always take
precedence over their equivalent global and desktop-level policy settings.
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