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Creating Customization Specifications
Customization specifications are optional, but they can greatly expedite automated pool deployments by
providing configuration information for general properties such as licensing, domain attachment, and
DHCP settings.
With customization specifications, you can customize remote desktops as they are created in View
Administrator. You create new customization specifications by using the Customization Specification
wizard in vSphere Client.
See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration document for information on using the Customization
Specification wizard.
Make sure that the customization specifications are accurate before you use them in View Administrator. In
vSphere Client, deploy and customize a virtual machine from your template using the customization
specifications. Fully test the virtual machine, including DHCP and authentication, before you create remote
desktops.
When you use a Sysprep customization specification to join a Windows desktop to a domain, you must use
the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the Active Directory domain. You cannot use the NetBIOS name
of the Active Directory domain.
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