Refresh Policy Settings; Smart Card Authentication Settings; View Composer Maintenance Task Types - VMware View Manager 4.5 Integration Manual

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Refresh Policy Settings

Table 3‐13 shows the settings that you can use with the -refreshPolicyType parameter to specify a refresh
policy for the OS disks of automatically provisioned dedicated and linked‐clone desktop pools.
Table 3-12. Refresh Policy Settings
Refresh Policy
Always
Conditional
Never

Smart Card Authentication Settings

Table 3‐13 shows the settings that you can use with the -smartCardSetting parameter to specify how users
with smart cards are authenticated. These settings apply to Update-ConnectionBroker, and do not have any
effect unless you also specify -UseSSLClient $true with Update-GlobalSetting.
Table 3-13. Smart Card Authentication Settings
Refresh Policy
NotAllowed
Optional
Required

View Composer Maintenance Task Types

Table 3‐14 shows the settings that you can use with the -composerTask parameter to specify a View
Composer maintenance task type that is scheduled on a virtual machine.
Table 3-14. View Composer Maintenance Task Types
Task Type
attachUdd
detachUdd
mkChkPoint
rebalance
refresh
replaceUdd
resync
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Description
Specifies that an OS disk is always refreshed when the user logs out.
Specifies that an OS disk is refreshed when the user logs out if certain conditions
are met. Use the -refreshpolicyDays and -refreshPolicyUsage
parameters to specify the refresh interval in days and the percentage of the
maximum allowable size for the disk.
Specifies that an OS disk is never refreshed when the user logs out.
Description
Specifies that smart card authentication is disabled.
Specifies that users can use smart card authentication or password
authentication to connect to the View Connection Server instance. If smart card
authentication fails, the user must provide a password.
Specifies that users must use smart card authentication when connecting to the
View Connection Server instance. Smart card authentication replaces Windows
password authentication only. If SecureID is enabled, users are required to
authenticate by using both SecureID and smart card authentication.
Description
Specifies a scheduled task to attach a persistent disk.
Specifies a scheduled task to detach a persistent disk.
Specifies a scheduled task to create a checkpoint snapshot.
Specifies a scheduled task to rebalance a linked‐clone desktop.
Specifies a scheduled task to refresh a linked‐clone desktop.
Specifies a scheduled task to replace a persistent disk.
Specifies a scheduled task to recompose a linked‐clone desktop.
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