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VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
VMware Horizon View 6 Desktop Virtualization Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
4
Managing VMware Horizon View with PowerCLI
Index

Creating an RDS application pool in Horizon View


RDS application pools are used to publish and entitle RDS-streamed applications for Horizon View Clients. We must create an application pool for each application that we want to publish and, as in the case of desktop pools, we must entitle users to each application pool individually. Fortunately, we can create and entitle multiple applications at once, which simplifies the initial creation process. In this recipe, we will configure application pools for each of the core Microsoft Office applications installed on our Windows RDS hosts.

Getting ready

To create an application pool in Horizon View, we need to have at least one RDS farm configured in our pod. Assuming that the RDS farm creation process completed successfully in the previous recipe, we should see the farm in the Farms menu under Resources of our Horizon View Manager Admin console. The tasks required to create an application pool are performed using the Horizon View Manager Admin console...