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g If you are configuring a global desktop entitlement, select the default display protocol for desktops
in the global destkop entitlement and specify whether to allow users to override the default display
protocol.
h If you are configuring a global desktop entitlement, select whether to allow users to reset desktops
in the global desktop entitlement.
i Select whether to allow users to use the HTML Access feature to access desktops or applications in
the global entitlement.
With HTML Access, end users can use a Web browser to connect to remote desktops and
applications and are not required to install any client software on their local systems.
5 Click Next and add users or groups to the global entitlement.
a Click Add, select one or more search criteria, and click Find to filter Active Directory users or
groups based on your search criteria.
b Select the Active Directory user or group to add to the global entitlement and click OK.
You can press the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple users and groups.
6 Click Next, review the global entitlement configuration, and click Finish to create the global
entitlement.
The global entitlement appears on the Global Entitlements page.
7 Select the pools that can provide desktops or applications for the users in the global entitlement you
created.
a Log in to the View Administrator user interface for any View Connection Server instance in the
pod that contains the pool to add to the global entitlement.
b In View Administrator, select Catalog > Global Entitlements.
c Double-click the global entitlement.
d On the Local Pools tab, click Add, select the pools to add, and click Add.
You can press the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple pools.
Pools that are already associated with a global entitlement, or that do not meet the criteria for the
policies you selected for the global entitlement, are not displayed. For example, if you enabled the
HTML Access policy, you cannot select pools that do not allow HTML Access.
IMPORTANT If you add multiple application pools to a global application entitlement, you must add
the same application. For example, do not add Calculator and Microsoft Office PowerPoint to the
same global application entitlement. If you add different applications to the same global
application entitlement, entitled users might receive different applications at different times.
e Repeat these steps on a View Connection Server instance in each pod that contains a pool to add to
the global entitlement.
The Cloud Pod Architecture feature stores the global entitlement in the Global Data Layer, which replicates
the global entitlement on every pod in the pod federation. When an entitled user uses Horizon Client to
connect to a View Connection server in the pod federation, the global entitlement name appears in the list of
available desktops and applications.
NOTE If a View administrator changes the pool-level display protocol or protocol override policy after a
desktop pool is associated with a global desktop desktop entitlement, users can receive a desktop launch
error when they select the global desktop entitlement. If a View administrator changes the pool-level virtual
machine reset policy after a desktop pool is associated with the global desktop entitlement, users can receive
an error if they try to reset the desktop.
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