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Roll Back a Locally Checked-Out Desktop
If an end user loses a laptop that contains a local desktop, or if the hard disk becomes damaged, you can roll
the View desktop back so that the end user can check the desktop out on another computer. If the client policy
allows it, an end user who has checked out a local desktop can also roll back the desktop from within View
Client.
If an administrator starts a rollback operation, the client takes one of the following actions:
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If the user is logged in to the checked out desktop, the session is terminated as soon as View Client receives
notification. The user can no longer log in to the checked-out desktop.
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If the user is not logged in, subsequent attempts to connect are redirected to the online copy of the desktop.
To continue working in local mode, the user must now check out the desktop from the server.
Prerequisites
If an administrator wants to retain most recent data from the local desktop, perform a replication operation.
See “Initiate Replications of Local Desktops,” on page 259.
IMPORTANT If you perform a replication, you must wait until the replication is complete before initiating a
rollback operation. Rollback operations are not queued behind other operations. To determine when a
replication operation is complete, in View Administrator, click Monitoring > Local Sessions and note the time
that the last replication completed.
Procedure
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Select the Rollback option.
Option Action
View Administrator user
In View Administrator, select Monitoring > Local Sessions, select the
desktop, and click Rollback.
End user
If you are a user who is entitled to the desktop, in View Client, right-click the
desktop in the list of available desktops and select Rollback.
The Rollback option is available only if the client desktop policy allows it.
The checked out version of the desktop is discarded. A user must check out the online version again to use the
desktop in local mode.
What to do next
To clean up the files on the end user's computer, have the end user delete the local mode directory for this
desktop. See “Delete a Local Desktop,” on page 260.
For information about checking out a View desktop for use in local mode, see the View Installation document.
Delete a Local Desktop
When you roll back a local desktop or uninstall View Client, the files that make up a local desktop on that client
computer are not deleted or cleaned up. To remove a local desktop, you must manually delete its files.
Prerequisites
Verify that the local desktop is no longer checked out. If the local desktop contains data that has not been
replicated to the View desktop that resides in the datacenter, ask the end user to check in the desktop. If
checking the desktop in is not possible, use View Administrator to replicate the data. See “Initiate Replications
of Local Desktops,” on page 259.
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