7.1

Add RDP Connection Support to Your Windows Machine Blueprints
If you want to allow your catalog administrators to entitle users to the Connect using RDP action for your
Windows blueprints, you must add the RDP custom properties to your machine blueprint, and reference the
custom RDP le your system administrator prepared.
N If your fabric administrator creates a property group that contains the required custom properties
and you include it in your blueprint, you do not need to individually add the custom properties to the
blueprint.
Prerequisites
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Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator or business group manager.
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Obtain the name of the custom RDP le that your system administrator created for you. See “Create a
Custom RDP File to Support RDP Connections for Provisioned Machines,” on page 150.
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Create at least one Windows machine blueprint.
Procedure
1 Select Design > Blueprints.
2 Point to the blueprint to update and click Edit.
3 Select the machine component on your canvas to edit the details.
4 Click the Properties tab.
5 Click the Custom Properties tab.
6 Congure RDP seings.
a Click New Property.
b Enter the RDP custom property names in the Name text box and the corresponding values in the
Value text box.
Option Description and Value
(Required)RDP.File.Name
Species an RDP le from which to obtain seings, for example
My_RDP_Settings.rdp. The le must reside in the Website\Rdp
subdirectory of the vRealize Automation installation directory.
(Required)
VirtualMachine.Rdp.SettingN
Congures specic RDP seings. N is a unique number used to
distinguish one RDP seing from another. For example, to specify the
Authentication Level so that no authentication requirement is specied,
dene the custom property VirtualMachine.Rdp.Setting1 and set
the value to authentication level:i:3. Use to open an RDP link to specify
seings.
For a list of available seings and correct syntax, see the Microsoft
Windows RDP documentation.
VirtualMachine.Admin.NameComp
letion
Species the domain name to include in the fully qualied domain
name of the machine that the RDP or SSH les generate for the user
interface options Connect Using RDP or Connect Using SSH option.
For example, set the value to myCompany.com to generate the fully
qualied domain name my-machine-name.myCompany.com in the RDP
or SSH le.
c Click Save.
7 Select the row containing your blueprint and click Publish.
Your catalog administrators can entitle users to the Connect Using RDP action for machines provisioned
from your blueprint. If users are not entitled to the action, they are not able to connect by using RDP.
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