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Administrators, Inventory Administrators, or an equivalent role to use View Administrator to entitle
users or groups to desktops.
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Administrators or an equivalent role to run the vdmadmin command.
Procedure
1 Prepare Active Directory and View Manager for Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 440
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.
2 Set Default Values for Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 441
You can use the vdmadmin command to set the default values for the organizational unit, password expiry,
and group membership in Active Directory for clients in kiosk mode.
3 Display the MAC Addresses of Client Devices on page 442
If you want to create an account for a client that is based on its MAC address, you can use View Client
to discover the MAC address of the client device.
4 Add Accounts for Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 443
You can use the vdmadmin command to add accounts for clients to the configuration of a View Connection
Server group. After you add a client, it is available for use with a View 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.
5 Enable Authentication of Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 444
You can use the vdmadmin command to enable authentication of clients that attempt to connect to their
desktops via a View Connection Server instance.
6 Verify the Configuration of Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 445
You can use the vdmadmin command to display information about clients in kiosk mode and View
Connection Server instances that are configured to authenticate such clients.
7 Connect to Desktops from Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 446
You can run View Client from the command line or use a script to connect a client to a remote session.
Prepare Active Directory and View Manager 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 the desktop source for a manual pool. You can also install and
configure applications on the guest virtual machine.
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