Part 16 – Import Horizon Group Policy Templates for DEM

In this blog, we will launch our Group policy editor and create a new VDI desktop DEM policy to bootstrap the agent with configuration.

We will need to import the GPO templates we downloaded as part of our installation files into C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions or \\domain.com\sysvol\domain.com\Policies\PolicyDefinitions on the group policy server.

Step 1- Extract the files.

Step 2- Copy the .admx files and copy them to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions. Overwrite any older files.

Step 3- Copy all .adml files from en-us folder and copy them to C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US. Overwrite any older files.

Step 4- We had actually created these two Horizon View Organizational Unit (OU) in our previous chapters so we will create a GPO here. If not, within our Active Directory Users and Computers, create a parent Organizational Unit (OU) to hold all Horizon components.

Step 5- Use the option to Create a GPO on this domain and link it here as shown

Step 6- Give our GPO a name as DEM Mgmt Policy

Step 7- Right-click the DEM Mgmt Policy GPO and select Edit.

Step 8- Go to Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Logon and configure the following policies

Step 9- Under Logon – Enable the option to wait for the network at computer startup

Step 10- Browse to User Configuration

Step 11- Browse to Policies> Administrative Templates> VMware DEM> FlexEngine

There are a number of tweaks we will need to apply here so let’s begin

Step 12- Enable Run FlexEngine as Group Policy Extension

**Step 13- Enable** Paths unavailable at logon

Step 14- Configure the following policies: DirectFlex – Advanced settings as Enabled

Step 15- Enable FlexEngine logging to the Windows event log

Step 16- Set Flex config files to Enabled and also specify the path to the DEMConfig share. We will create this folder and permissions in another blog.

Step 17- Set FlexEngine to Enabled and specify the path and filename of the log file (\\dc1\DEMProfiles$\%username%\Logs\FlexEngine.log). Select the desired Log level and max log size as shown

Step 18- Set Profile archive backups to be Enabled and specify the location to store user profile and archive backups. (\\dc1\DEMProfiles$\%username%\Backups) and specify the number of backups we wish to retain.

Step 19- Set Profile archives as Enabled and specify the location to store profiles archives in your remote server (\\dc1\DEMProfiles$\%username%\Archives).