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3 Chooseyourcustomsetupoptions.YoumustinstalltheViewManagerComposer
Agent,howeveryoumayalsoselectordeselectthefollowingfeatures:
 InstalltheViewSecureAuthenticationcomponentifyouwanttoinstallthe
GraphicalIdentificationandAuthentication(GINA)dynamic‐linklibrary.
Installingthiscomponentenablessinglesignon(SSO)sothatwhenauserlogs
intoViewClienttheyarenotadditionallypromptedtore‐entertheir
authenticationinformationinordertologintotheirde
sktop.
 InstalltheUSBRedirectioncomponentifvirtualdesktopusersneedtoaccess
locallyconnectedUSBdeviceswiththeirvirtualdesktops.
 InstalltheVirtualPrintingcomponentifyouwanttoenableuserstoprintto
anyprinteravailabletotheirclientsystemwithoutfirstinstallingadditional
driversontheirdesktop.Referto“VirtualPrinting”onpage 90formore
informationaboutthisfeature.
4AcceptorchangethedestinationfolderandclickNext.
5ClickInstalltobe
gintheinstallationprocess.Ontheprocessiscompleteclick
Finish.
Creating a Parent VM Snapshot
OnceViewAgenthasbeeninstalledonthebaseimageyoumustuseVirtualCenterto
takeasnapshotofthesysteminitspowered‐downstate.Thissnapshotwillbeusedas
thebaselineconfigurationforthefirstsetoflinkedclonedesktopsanchoredtothe
ParentVM.
Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
ViewManagercanonlydeploylinkedclonedesktopsifitisabletocommunicatewith
aproperlyconfiguredVirtualCenterhostthatisrunningtheViewComposerservice.
Inaddition,yourActiveDirectoryforestmusthaveafullyqualifieddomainname,for
example,example.com—youcannotuseViewComposerinenvironmentswherethe
domai
ncontrollerhasanunqualifiedname.
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OTEWindows2000doesnotsupportUSBredirection.
NOTETheParentVMmustbecompletelyshutdownbeforeyoutakethesnapshot.