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3 Configure the guest virtual machine so that the clients are not locked when they are left unattended.
View suppresses the pre-login message for clients that connect in kiosk mode. If you require an event to
unlock the screen and display a message, you can configure a suitable application on the guest virtual
machine.
4 In
View Administrator, create the desktop pool that the clients will use and entitle the group to this pool.
For example, you might choose to create a floating-assignment, linked-clone desktop pool as being most
suitable for the requirements of your client application. You might also associate one or more ThinApp
applications with the desktop pool.
IMPORTANT Do not entitle a client or a group to more than one desktop pool. If you do, View Manager
assigns a desktop at random from the pools to which a client is entitled, and generates a warning event.
5 If
you want to enable location-based printing for the clients, configure the Active Directory group policy
setting AutoConnect Location-based Printing for VMware View, which is located in the Microsoft Group
Policy Object Editor in the Software Settings folder under Computer Configuration.
6 Configure other policies that you need to optimize and secure the View desktops of the clients.
For example, you might want to override the policies that connect local USB devices to the desktop when
it is launched or when the devices are plugged in. By default, View Client for Windows enables these
policies for clients in kiosk mode.
Example: Preparing Active Directory for Clients in Kiosk Mode
A company intranet has a domain MYORG, and its organizational unit has the distinguished name OU=myorg-
ou,DC=myorg,DC=com. In Active Directory, you create the organizational unit kiosk-ou with the
distinguished name OU=kiosk-ou,DC=myorg,DC=com and the group kc-grp for use with clients in kiosk mode.
What to do next
Set default values for the clients.
Set Default Values for Clients in Kiosk Mode
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.
You must run the vdmadmin command on one of the View Connection Server instances in the group that contains
the View Connection Server instance that clients will use to connect to their desktops.
When you configure defaults for password expiry and Active Directory group membership, these settings are
shared by all View Connection Server instances in a group.
Procedure
u
Set the default values for clients.
vdmadmin -Q -clientauth -setdefaults [-b
authentication_arguments ] [-ou DN ] [ -expirepassword
| -noexpirepassword ] [-group group_name | -nogroup]
Option Description
-expirepassword
Specifies that the expiry time for passwords on the client accounts is the same
as
for the View Connection Server group. If no expiry time is defined for the
group, passwords do not expire.
-group group_name
Specifies the name of the default group to which client accounts are added.
The name of the group must be specified as the pre-Windows 2000 group
name from Active Directory.
-noexpirepassword
Specifies that passwords on client accounts do not expire.
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