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Mastering VMware Horizon 7

You're reading from   Mastering VMware Horizon 7 Virtualization that can transform your organization

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781786466396
Length 676 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mastering VMware Horizon 7 - Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introduction to VDI and VMware Horizon 7 2. An Overview of Horizon View Architecture and Components FREE CHAPTER 3. Design and Deployment Considerations 4. Installing and Configuring Horizon View 5. Securing Horizon View with SSL Certificates and True SSO 6. Building and Optimizing the Virtual Desktop OS 7. Managing and Configuring Desktop Pools 8. Delivering Remote Applications with View Hosted Apps 9. Delivering Session-Based Desktops with Horizon View 10. Horizon View Client Options 11. Upgrading to a New Version of Horizon View 12. Troubleshooting Tips

Preparing Active Directory


Horizon View requires Active Directory (AD) for authentication of users and desktops, as well as making use of group policy to control and tune many aspects of your end users' desktops. This will be covered in later chapters.

Horizon View is compatible with the following AD-functional domain levels:

  • Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2

  • Windows 2012 and Windows 2012 R2

When deploying your View Connection Servers, they either need to be in the same domain as the desktops that you are going to deploy, or in a domain with a two-way transitive trust to the domain where your desktops will be located.

Active Directory user accounts

We recommend that you also take this opportunity to create a number of user accounts that will be needed across your installation.

These accounts will include service accounts for your View Connection Server Services and Composer Services. You need an AD account to be used by View to log in and manage components within your vCenter, and a user for View...

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