Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

3 Click Add, select one or more search criteria, and click Find to find users or groups based on your
search criteria.
NOTE Domain local groups are filtered out of search results for mixed-mode domains. You cannot
entitle users in domain local groups if your domain is configured in mixed mode.
4 Select the users or groups you want to entitle to the desktops or applications in the pool and click OK.
5 Click OK to save your changes.
Remove Entitlements from a Desktop or Application Pool
You can remove entitlements from a desktop or application pool to prevent specific users or groups from
accessing a desktop or application.
Procedure
1 Select the desktop or application pool.
Option Description
Remove an entitlement for a
desktop pool
In View Administrator, select Catalog > Desktop Pools and click the name
of the desktop pool.
Remove an entitlement for an
application pool
In View Administrator, select Catalog > Application Pools and click the
name of the application pool.
2 Select Remove entitlement from the Entitlements drop-down menu.
3 Select the user or group whose entitlement you want to remove and click Remove.
4 Click OK to save your changes.
Review Desktop or Application Pool Entitlements
You can review the desktop or application pools to which a user or group is entitled.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select Users and Groups and click the name of the user or group.
2 Click the Entitlements tab and review the desktop or application pools to which the user or group is
entitled.
Option Action
List the desktop pools to which the
user or group is entitled
Click Desktop Pools.
List the application pools to which
the user or group is entitled
Click Application Pools.
Restricting Remote Desktop Access
You can configure the restricted entitlements feature to restrict remote desktop access based on the View
Connection Server instance that users connect to when they select desktops.
With restricted entitlements, you assign one or more tags to a View Connection Server instance. Then, when
configuring a desktop pool, you select the tags of the View Connection Server instances that you want to be
able to access the desktop pool.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
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