User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vCenter Configuration ManagerInstallation and Getting Started Guide
- About This Book
- Preparing for Installation
- Installation Manager
- Installation Configurations
- Tools Installation
- General Prerequisites to Install VCM
- Verify Hardware and Software Requirements
- Verify Administration Rights
- Set the Default Network Authority Account
- Specify the Collector Services Account
- Change the Collector Services Account Password in the Services Management Con...
- Change the Collector Services Account Password in the Component Services DCOM...
- Verify the VMware Application Services Account
- Determine the VCM Remote Virtual Directory
- Use Secure Communications Certificates
- Understand Server Authentication
- Verify the Foundation Checker System Checks
- Install UNIX Patch for HP-UX 11.11
- VCM Uses FIPS Cryptography
- Installing VCM
- Installing, Configuring, and Upgrading the OS Provisioning Server and Components
- Upgrading or Migrating VCM
- Upgrades
- Migrations
- Prerequisites to Migrate VCM
- Back Up Your Databases
- Back up Your Files
- Export and Back up Your Certificates
- Migrating VCM
- Migrate Only Your Database
- Replace Your Existing 32-Bit Environment with a Supported 64-bit Environment
- Migrate a 32-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.4.1
- Migrate a 64-bit Environment Running VCM 5.3 or Earlier to VCM 5.4.1
- Migrate a Split Installation of VCM 5.3 or Earlier to a Single-Server Install...
- How to Recover Your Collector Machine if the Migration is not Successful
- Upgrading VCM and Components
- Maintaining VCM After Installation
- Getting Started with VCM Components and Tools
- Getting Started with VCM
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Verify Available Domains
- Check the Network Authority
- Assign Network Authority Accounts
- Discover Windows Machines
- License Windows Machines
- Disable User Account Control for VCM Agent Installation
- Install the VCM Windows Agent on Your Windows Machines
- Enable UAC After VCM Agent Installation
- Collect Windows Data
- Windows Collection Results
- Getting Started with Windows Custom Information
- Discover, License, and Install UNIX/Linux Machines
- Discover, License, and Install Mac OS X Machines
- Discover, Configure, and Collect Oracle Data from UNIX Machines
- Customize VCM for your Environment
- How to Set Up and Use VCM Auditing
- Discover, License, and Install Windows Machines
- Getting Started with VCM for Virtualization
- Getting Started with VCM Remote
- Getting Started with VCM Patching
- Getting Started with Operating System Provisioning
- Getting Started with Software Provisioning
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Software Repository for Windows
- Package Manager for Windows
- Software Provisioning Component Relationships
- Install the Software Provisioning Components
- Using Package Studio to Create Software Packages and Publish to Repositories
- Using VCM Software Provisioning for Windows
- Related Software Provisioning Actions
- Getting Started with VCM Management Extensions for Assets
- Getting Started with VCM Service Desk Integration
- Getting Started with VCM for Active Directory
- Installing and Getting Started with VCM Tools
- Index
4. In the System Configuration dialog box, click the Tools tab.
5. In the Tool Name list, select Disable UAC.
6. Click Launch.
7. When the command is finished running, click Close and click Close again.
8. Restart the Windows machine to apply the changes.
What to do next
Install the VCM Windows Agent on licensed Windows machines in your environment, and then enable
UAC on the target machine. See "Install the VCM Windows Agent on Your Windows Machines" on page
83.
Disable User Account Control By Using Group Policy
The User Account Control (UAC) on Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, and Vista machines prevents VCM from
installing the Agent on the target machines.You can use a group policy to disable UAC on the Windows
machines in your environment.
The following procedure is performed on a Windows 2008 R2 domain controller machine.
Prerequisites
Configure Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2, and Vista machines that are targeted for the Agent installation into a
common Active Directory domain or organizational unit (OU).
Procedure
1. On your Windows 2008 R2 domain controller, click Start and select Administrative Tools > Group
Policy Management.
2. Click Forest and select Domains > your local domain > Default Domain Policy.
3. In the Default Domain Policy pane, click the Settings tab.
4. Right-click Policies and click Edit.
5. In the Console Root, expand the domain/OU.
6. Browse to Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local
Policies > Security Options.
7. In the right pane, locate the User Access Control policies and configure the following policies and their
Policy Setting.
Option Action
User Account Control: Behavior of the elevation prompt for
administration in Admin Approval Mode
Elevate without prompting.
User Account Control: Detect application installations and
prompt for elevation
Disabled.
User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin
Approval Mode
Disabled.
8. Restart the domain controller machine to apply the changes.
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