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Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By : Jason Ventresco
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Implementing VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon 7 has been a buzz since it was announced. One of the major reasons is the introduction of the new Instant Clones feature. This book will complement the product documentation by providing real-life examples of how it is implemented along with the latest features and components of the platform. We'll explore the latest features of the platform, including those added through product acquisitions such as User Environment Manager and App Volumes. Further on, you will also be introduced to the new capabilities added to the core product such Linked-Clone RDS pools. Upon completion of this book, you will have an understanding of the capabilities and benefits VMware Horizon can provide to your organization, and how each of its components are implemented.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon 7 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Determining the effective home site of a user or security group


While the concept of a Horizon home site is easy enough to understand, owing to home site overrides and the fact that it is possible that a user can be assigned to multiple home sites at once, it is important to have a way to determine what the effective home site should be for a given user. We will use the Horizon home site resolution tool to determine the effective home sites for a user with the following characteristics:

  • Member of Horizon_Homesite_HOP security group, which is assigned to the Hopkinton home site.

  • The user account directly assigned to the Hopkinton home site (this is in addition to being a member of a security group that is assigned to the home site).

  • Home site override in place of the Windows 10 x64 Global Entitlement that associates the user with the RTP home site.

The following steps outline how to use the Horizon home site resolution tool to identify which home site the user will be assigned in this case...