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Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 - Third Edition

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

This third edition of Implementing VMware Horizon 7.7 has been updated to get you up to speed with VMware Horizon 7.7 by showing you how to use its key features and deploying an end-user computing infrastructure for your own organization. The book begins by guiding you on how to deploy all the core requirements for a VMware Horizon infrastructure. It then moves on to show you how to provision and administer end-user computing resources using VMware Horizon. You’ll not only be able to deploy the core VMware Horizon features, but you’ll also be able to implement new features, such as the Just-in-Time Management Platform (JMP) and the Horizon Console. You’ll also focus on the latest features and components of the Horizon platform and learn when and how they are used. By the end of the book, you will have developed a solid understanding of how your organization can benefit from the capabilities VMware Horizon offers and how each of its components is implemented.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Managing Horizon client entitlements and sessions

In this section, we will review several different commands that can be used to manage Horizon client entitlements and sessions.

Adding desktop pool entitlements

Entitling is the act of granting AD users or groups access to the Horizon pools. In this section, we will review how to entitle both individual users as well as AD security groups. The following list shows how entitlements can be implemented:

  • The following Add-PoolEntitlement command will entitle the Engineering_Horizon_Users group to the EngineeringLC1 desktop pool:
    Add-PoolEntitlement -Pool_id EngineeringLC1 -sid (Get-User -Name 
“Engineering_Horizon_Users”).sid
  • To entitle individual users...