4.6

Remove a vCenter Server Instance from View Manager
You can remove the connection between View Manager and a vCenter Server instance. When you do so, View
Manager no longer manages the View desktops created in that vCenter Server instance.
Prerequisites
Delete all the View desktops that are associated with the vCenter Server instance. See “Delete a Desktop Pool
from View Manager,” on page 183.
Procedure
1 Click View Configuration > Servers.
2 In the vCenter Servers panel, select the vCenter Server instance.
3 Click Remove.
A dialog warns you that View Manager will no longer have access to the virtual machines that are managed
by this vCenter Server instance.
4 Click OK.
View Manager can no longer access the virtual machines created in the vCenter Server instance.
Create a User Account for View Composer
If you use View Composer, you must create a user account in Active Directory to use with View Composer.
View Composer requires this account to join linked-clone desktops to your Active Directory domain.
To ensure security, you should create a separate user account to use with View Composer. By creating a
separate account, you can guarantee that it does not have additional privileges that are defined for another
purpose. You can give the account the minimum privileges that it needs to create and remove computer objects
in a specified Active Directory container. For example, the View Composer account does not require domain
administrator privileges.
Procedure
1 In Active Directory, create a user account in the same domain as your View Connection Server host or in
a trusted domain.
2 Add the Create Computer Objects, Delete Computer Objects, and Write All Properties permissions to
the account in the Active Directory container in which the linked-clone computer accounts are created or
to which the linked-clone computer accounts are moved.
The following list shows all the required permissions for the user account, including permissions that are
assigned by default:
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List Contents
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Read All Properties
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Write All Properties
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Read Permissions
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Create Computer Objects
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Delete Computer Objects
3 Make sure that the user account's permissions apply to the Active Directory container and to all child
objects of the container.
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