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One of the tasks that you perform to give users remote access to an application is to create an application
pool. Users who are entitled to an application pool can access the application remotely from a variety of
client devices.
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“Application Pools,” on page 111
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“Worksheet for Creating an Application Pool Manually,” on page 112
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“Create an Application Pool,” on page 112
Application Pools
With application pools, you can deliver a single application to many users. The application runs on a farm
of RDS hosts.
When you create an application pool, you deploy an application in the data center that users can access from
anywhere on the network. For an introduction to application pools, see “Farms, RDS Hosts, and Desktop
and Application Pools,” on page 9.
An application pool has a single application and is associated with a single farm. To avoid errors, you must
install the application on all of the RDS hosts in the farm.
When you create an application pool, View automatically displays the applications that are available to all
users rather than individual users from the Start menu on all the RDS hosts in the farm. You can select one
or more applications from the list. If you select multiple applications from the list, a separate application
pool is created for each application. You can also manually specify an application that is not on the list. If an
application that you want to manually specify is not already installed, View displays a warning message.
When you create an application pool, you cannot specify the access group in which to place the pool. For
application pools and RDS desktop pools, you specify the access group when you create a farm.
An application supports the PCoIP and Blast (for HTML Access) display protocols. To enable HTML Access,
see "Prepare Desktops, Pools, and Farms for HTML Access," in the "Setup and Installation" chapter in the
Using HTML Access document, available from
https://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
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