eot8857
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Is it possible to set a Horizon View Pool as hidden?

We have several zero client based computer labs on our campus, and these are set for open use for all users.  The zero clients are pre-programmed to connect to the correct pools, but I'm having some trouble with non-lab users consuming VMs set aside for the lab.

The reason that this is happening is the fact that once you set the domain\users group on a pool entitlement, it becomes visible and available to everyone on the network.  This creates a situation where either we don't have enough VMs to service the zero clients, or we have to overcommit the pool.  Since the lab is supposed to be available to any user that walks in the door (including staff), AD groups aren't going to help me here.

Is there a way to create an active pool that does not advertise itself?  The zero clients already have the exact pool name they need as a hard-coded entry; all I'm trying to do is stop the software client from displaying the pool to users sitting in an office (or at home).

Is this possible?

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sjesse
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Not yet, they are starting to do client restrictions with published apps, but so far you can't do it with desktop pools. The only option we've seen is to use connection server tagging and route users to the connection server tagged for that desktop pool. This page is a bit older, but the premise is the same

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Basically we have a connection server with internal, external, and special one for a pool we wanted to hide from everyone else. We run all connection through an f5 loadbalancer that uses source based routing to make sure that the correct subnets go to the internal and special connection server, and everything else go to the external one.

eot8857
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Thanks for the speedy reply.  I had expected that it would come down to connection server tagging, but wanted to see if there was anything that I had not run across which didn't require knocking on our network engineering group's door to accomplish this (we're running f5s as well).

Again, many thanks for the info -

Ed

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BenFB
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Tags on the connection servers will be your best bet but it may not scale well if you need more than 2 tag (We dedicate 3 connection servers per tag). You might be able to use the F5 to route you based on source IP (different subnets for different areas) but that might also require APM.

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