Active Directory Group Policy Example - VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual

Table 8-17. Terminal Services Policy Settings for Sessions
Setting
Set time limit for disconnected sessions
Sets a time limit for active but idle Terminal
Services sessions
You can combine these settings with View desktop power policies to create a dynamic solution for suspending
or powering off disconnected View desktops. When View desktops are suspended or powered off, resources
become available to other desktops.

Active Directory Group Policy Example

One way to implement Active Directory group policies in View is to create an OU for your View desktops and
link one or more GPOs to that OU. You can use these GPOs to apply group policy settings to your View desktops
and to enable loopback processing.
You can configure policies on your Active Directory Server or on any computer in your domain. This example
shows how to configure policies directly on your Active Directory server.
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Procedure
1 Create an OU for View Desktops
To apply group policies to View desktops without affecting other Windows computers in the same Active
Directory domain, create an OU specifically for your View desktops.
2 Create GPOs for View Group Policies
Create GPOs to contain group policies for View components and location-based printing and link them
to the OU for your View desktops.
3 Add View ADM Templates to a GPO
To apply View component group policy settings to your View desktops, add their ADM template files
to GPOs.
4 Enable Loopback Processing for View Desktops
To make User Configuration settings that usually apply to a computer apply to all of the users that log
in to that computer, enable loopback processing.
Create an OU for View Desktops
To apply group policies to View desktops without affecting other Windows computers in the same Active
Directory domain, create an OU specifically for your View desktops.
Procedure
1 On your Active Directory server, select Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory
Users and Computers.
2 Right-click the domain that contains your View desktops and select New > Organizational Unit.
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Description
Enabling this setting lets you set a time limit for disconnected
sessions. Disconnected sessions are logged off after the
specified time limit.
Enabling this setting lets you set a time limit for idle sessions.
Idle sessions are logged off after the specified time limit.
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