Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

Add the Persona Management ADM Template to a Single System
To configure View Persona Management for a single desktop pool, you must add the Persona Management
ADM Template file to the Local Computer Policy on the virtual machine that you use to create the pool. To
configure View Persona Management on a single system, you must add the Persona Management ADM
Template file to that system.
Prerequisites
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Verify that View Agent is installed with the View Persona Management setup option on the system. See
“Install View Agent with the View Persona Management Option,” on page 262.
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Verify that you can log in as an administrator on the system.
Procedure
1 Download the View GPO Bundle .zip file from the VMware download site at
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 6 download, which includes the
GPO Bundle.
The file is named VMware-Horizon-View-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.x is the version
and yyyyyyy is the build number. All ADM and ADMX files that provide group policy settings for View
are available in this file.
2 Unzip the file and copy the the ADM file, ViewPM.adm, to the local system.
3 On the local system, click Start > Run.
4 Type gpedit.msc and click OK.
5 In the Local Computer Policy window, navigate to Computer Configuration and right-click
Administrative Templates.
NOTE Do not select Administrative Templates under User Configuration.
6 Click Add/Remove Templates and click Add.
7 Browse to the directory that contains the ViewPM.adm file.
8 Select the ViewPM.adm file and click Add.
9 Close the Add/Remove Templates window.
The View Persona Management group policy settings are added to the Local Computer Policy configuration
on the local system. You must use gpedit.msc to display this configuration.
What to do next
Configure the View Persona Management group policy settings on the local system. See “Configure View
Persona Management Policies,” on page 266.
Add the Persona Management ADM Template to Active Directory
To configure View Persona Management for your deployment, you can add the Persona Management ADM
Template file to a Group Policy Object (GPO) in your Active Directory server.
Prerequisites
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Create GPOs for your View Persona Management deployment and link them to the OU that contains
the View machines that use View Persona Management. See “Active Directory Group Policy Example,”
on page 251.
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