VMware View Manager 4.5 Admin Manual page 159

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.
Prerequisites
Create GPOs for the View component group policy settings and link them to the OU that contains your
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View desktops.
Verify that the Microsoft MMC and the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in are available on your Active
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Directory server.
Procedure
1 Copy the View component ADM Template files from the
\Extras\GroupPolicyFiles
server.
2 On your Active Directory server, select Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory
Users and Computers.
3 Right-click the OU that contains your View desktops and select Properties.
4 On the Group Policy tab, click Open to open the Group Policy Management plug-in.
5 In the right pane, right-click the GPO that you created for the group policy settings and select Edit.
The Group Policy Object Editor window appears.
6 In the Group Policy Object Editor, right-click Administrative Templates under Computer Configuration
and then select Add/Remove Templates.
7 Click Add, browse to the ADM Template file, and click Open.
8 Click Close to apply the policy settings in the ADM Template file to the GPO.
The name of the template appears in the left pane under Administrative Templates.
9 Configure the group policy settings.
What to do next
Enable loopback processing for your View desktops.
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.
Prerequisites
Create GPOs for the View component group policy settings and link them to the OU that contains your
n
View desktops.
Verify that the Microsoft MMC and the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in are available on your Active
n
Directory server.
Procedure
1 On your Active Directory server, select Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory
Users and Computers.
2 Right-click the OU that contains your View desktops and select Properties.
3 On the Group Policy tab, click Open to open the Group Policy Management plug-in.
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directory on your View Connection Server host to your Active Directory
Chapter 8 Configuring Policies
install_directory \VMware\VMware View\Server
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