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dpholmes
Contributor
Contributor

Entitlement for a specific Desktop

Is there a way to entitle a specific user to login to a specific desktop?

I need to adjust our "golden image" to include some additional software.  I don't want to make it "Live" to everyone.  I want to recompose one desktop and make that desktop only available to one user. 

Is this a possibility or is there another way I should be doing this?

Thank you,

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BenFB
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Virtuoso

In a dedicated pool you can assign a user to a specific machine but not in a floating pool (User assignment is randomized by the connection server).

I've seen this accomplished a few ways.

  1. Create a pool just for testing new images.
  2. Recompose the test VM and then place it in maintenance mode. RDP to the VM for testing if that is sufficient (For some use cases RDP won't work).
  3. Recompose the test VM, place all of the other VMs in maintenance mode, quickly login with the test user and then remove all of the other VMs from maintenance mode. This will work depending on how busy your environment is. There is a risk a different user could get your test machine or be unable to login briefly.
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