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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
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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

Entitling access to desktop pools


The following steps outline how to grant users or AD security groups access to a View desktop pool, a necessary task since no access is granted by default. This can be done while the pool is still being provisioned.

  1. Log on to the View Manager Admin console using an AD account that has administrative permissions within View.

  2. Open the Inventory | Pools page within the console.

  3. Highlight the pool you wish to entitle, as shown in the following screenshot, and click on the Entitlements button to open the Entitlements window:

  4. In the Entitlements window shown in the following screenshot, click on the Add button to open the Find User or Group window:

  5. In the Find User or Group window shown in the following screenshot, use the Name/User name: or Description: fields to search for the user or group to which you wish to grant access. In the following example, we searched for a security group that was created specifically for a View named FC-PoolUsers. Highlight the desired...