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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon View helps you simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. This book will introduce you to all of the components of the VMware Horizon View suite, walk you through their deployment, and show how they are used. We will also discuss how to assess your virtual desktop resource requirements, and build an optimized virtual desktop. "Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will provide you the information needed to deploy and administer your own end-user computing infrastructure. This includes not only the View components themselves, but key topics such as assessing virtual desktop resource needs, and how to optimize your virtual desktop master image. You will learn how to design and deploy a performant, flexible and powerful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Horizon View. You will implement important components and features, such as VMware View Connection Server, VMware View Composer, VMware View Transfer Server, and VMware View Security Server."Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will take you through application virtualization with VMware ThinApp, the implementation of Persona Management, and creation of Desktop Pools. We then cover View Client options, Desktop maintenance, and Virtual Desktop Master Image. Finally we discuss View SSL certificates management, Group Policies, PowerCLI, and VMware View Design and Maintenance to help you get the most out of VMware View.If you want to learn how to design, implement and administrate a complex, optimized desktop virtualization solution with VMware View, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

View Persona Management ADM Template


The View Persona Management ADM Template file (ViewPM.adm) contains group policy settings used to enable and configure View Persona Management, which is disabled by default. This section expands upon the topics covered in the Using the Persona Management Group Policies and Advanced Persona Management options sections of Chapter 7, Implementing View Persona Management. Where applicable, the default values for the settings are provided.

Roaming and Synchronization settings

The Roaming & Synchronization Group Policy settings are used to enable and disable View Persona Management, set the location of the remote profile repository, determine which folders and files belong to the user profile, and control how to synchronize folders and files.

The following settings apply to the Roaming and Synchronization Group Policy settings section of the View Persona Management ADM template. Each of these settings are computer configuration objects and undefined by default...