Book Image

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)

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_RTP security group, which is assigned to the RTP home site.
  • Home site override in place of the Windows 10 x64 Global Entitlement that associates the user with the SJC 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:

  1. Log on to the Horizon Administration console...