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Table Of Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure View Clients to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- View Transfer Server and SSL Certificates
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- View Administrator and View Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the View Connection Server License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support View Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Replace the Default Ports for View Transfer Server
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Adding the View Desktops Plug-in to the vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
To be able to log in to a View desktop, users must belong to the local Remote Desktop Users group of the
View desktop. You can use the Restricted Groups policy in Active Directory to add users or groups to the
local Remote Desktop Users group of every View desktop that is joined to your domain.
The Restricted Groups policy sets the local group membership of computers in the domain to match the
membership list settings defined in the Restricted Groups policy. The members of your View desktop users
group are always added to the local Remote Desktop Users group of every View desktop that is joined to
your domain. When adding new users, you need only add them to your View desktop users group.
Prerequisites
Create a group for View desktop users in your domain in Active Directory.
Procedure
1 On the Active Directory server, navigate to the Group Policy Management plug-in.
AD Version Navigation Path
Windows 2003
a Select Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory
Users and Computers.
b Right-click your domain and click Properties.
c On the Group Policy tab, click Open to open the Group Policy
Management plug-in.
d Right-click Default Domain Policy, and click Edit.
Windows 2008
a Select Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management.
b Expand your domain, right-click Default Domain Policy, and click
Edit.
2 Expand the Computer Configuration section and open Windows Settings\Security Settings.
3 Right-click Restricted Groups, select Add Group, and add the Remote Desktop Users group.
4 Right-click the new restricted Remote Desktop Users group and add your View desktop users group to
the group membership list.
5 Click OK to save your changes.
Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
View includes several component-specific group policy administrative (ADM) template files.
During View Connection Server installation, the View ADM template files are installed in the
install_directory\VMware\VMware View\Server\Extras\GroupPolicyFiles directory on your View
Connection Server host. You must copy these files to a directory on your Active Directory server.
You can optimize and secure View desktops by adding the policy settings in these files to a new or existing
GPO in Active Directory and then linking that GPO to the OU that contains your View desktops.
See the VMware Horizon View Administration document for information on using View group policy settings.
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