Managing Horizon Client entitlements and sessions

In this section, we will review several different commands that can be used to manage Horizon Client entitlements and sessions.

Adding desktop pool entitlements

Entitling is the act of granting AD users, or groups, access to the Horizon pools. In this section we will review how to entitle individual users as well as AD security groups:

  • The following Add-PoolEntitlement command will entitle the Engineering_Horizon_Users group to the EngineeringLC1 desktop pool:
Add-PoolEntitlement -Pool_id EngineeringLC1 -sid (Get-User -Name "Engineering_Horizon_Users").sid
  • To entitle individual users, simply provide the first and last name of the user:
Add-PoolEntitlement -Pool_id EngineeringLC1 -sid (Get-User -Name ...

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