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How to use VMware Horizon View GPO Templates

Today i am going to talk about how to setup the VMware Horizon View GPO templates. Using the VMware Horizon View GPO templates you can add value to your overall Horizon View Solution.

 Prerequisites:

  • Create GPOs for the different Horizon 7 components and link them to the OU that contains each Horizon 7 components.
  • Ensure you have a user account that has rights to modify GPOs.
  • Ensure you have the Group Policy Management snap-in MMC installed. 
  • Download the Horizon 7 GPO bundle from VMware download site here. This will be found under the VMware Horizon download.

Setup:

  • unzip the GPO bundle you downloaded above it should have a name like VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip
  • This next step you have two options
    • Option 1: Copy the ADMX and ADML files from the GPO bundle to the GPO central store.
      • I am not going to go into details on how to configure a GPO central store as that is out of scope for this blog post.
    • Option 2: Copy the ADMX and ADML files to the local system you are going to use to create the GPO.
      • ADMX file location: %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions 
      • ADLM file location: %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions\ in the appropriate subfolder for each language needed
  • Using Group Policy Management MMC modify the group policies created above.

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