Administration

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Administrators, Inventory Administrators, or an equivalent role to use View Administrator to entitle
users or groups to remote desktops.
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Administrators or an equivalent role to run the vdmadmin command.
Procedure
1 Prepare Active Directory and View for Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 192
You must configure Active Directory to accept the accounts that you create to authenticate client
devices. Whenever you create a group, you must also entitle that group to the desktop pool that a
client accesses. You can also prepare the desktop pool that the clients use.
2 Set Default Values for Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 193
You can use the vdmadmin command to set the default values for the organizational unit, password
expiry, and group membership in Active Directory for clients in kiosk mode.
3 Display the MAC Addresses of Client Devices on page 194
If you want to create an account for a client that is based on its MAC address, you can use
Horizon Client to discover the MAC address of the client device.
4 Add Accounts for Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 195
You can use the vdmadmin command to add accounts for clients to the configuration of a View
Connection Server group. After you add a client, it is available for use with a View Connection Server
instance on which you have enabled authentication of clients. You can also update the configuration of
clients, or remove their accounts from the system.
5 Enable Authentication of Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 196
You can use the vdmadmin command to enable authentication of clients that attempt to connect to their
remote desktops via a View Connection Server instance.
6 Verify the Configuration of Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 197
You can use the vdmadmin command to display information about clients in kiosk mode and View
Connection Server instances that are configured to authenticate such clients.
7 Connect to Remote Desktops from Clients in Kiosk Mode on page 198
You can run the client from the command line or use a script to connect a client to a remote session.
Prepare Active Directory and View for Clients in Kiosk Mode
You must configure Active Directory to accept the accounts that you create to authenticate client devices.
Whenever you create a group, you must also entitle that group to the desktop pool that a client accesses.
You can also prepare the desktop pool that the clients use.
As a best practice, create a separate organizational unit and group to help minimize your work in
administering clients in kiosk mode. You can add individual accounts for clients that do not belong to any
group, but this creates a large administrative overhead if you configure more than a small number of clients.
Procedure
1 In Active Directory, create a separate organizational unit and group to use with clients in kiosk mode.
You must specify a pre-Windows 2000 name for the group. You use this name to identify the group to
the vdmadmin command.
2 Create the image or template for the guest virtual machine.
You can use a virtual machine that is managed by vCenter Server as a template for an automated pool,
as a parent for a linked-clone pool, or as a virtual machine in a manual desktop pool. You can also
install and configure applications on the guest operating system.
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