Upgrading Group Policy templates

As part of new Horizon versions, there will be a number of new features, some of which will be controlled via group policy. Therefore, you will need to upgrade the Group Policy administrative templates to the latest version when upgrading to a new version of Horizon View. This is easily achieved through the Group Policy Object Editor on your domain controllers.

We are not going to cover the process on how to do this, as it has been extensively covered in Online Chapter, Fine Tuning the End-User Experience available at https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/5657_FineTuningtheEndUserExperience.pdf .

Note

One thing to be aware of is that any policy changes can affect the end users, and some policies may have been deprecated and other new ones added. It's worth creating a new GPO for any new versions so that you can roll back to the previous one if the users start to report any issues.

In the following section, we are going to look at upgrading the...