Create GPOs for Horizon 7 Group Policies

Create GPOs to contain group policies for Horizon 7 components and location-based printing and link them to the OU for your Horizon 7 machines.

Prerequisites

• Create an OU for your Horizon 7 machines.
• Verify that you can log in as an Administrator domain user on the machine that hosts your Active Directory server.
• Verify that the MMC and the Group Policy Management snap-in are available on your Active Directory server.

Procedure

1. On the Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Console.
2. Expand your domain, right-click the OU that contains your Horizon 7 machines, and select Create a GPO in this domain, and Link it here.
3. Type a name for the GPO and click OK.
   The new GPO appears under the OU in the left pane.
4. (Optional) Apply the GPO to specific Horizon 7 machines in the OU.
   1. Select the GPO in the left pane.
   2. Select Security Filtering > Add.
   3. Type the computer names of the Horizon 7 machines and click OK.
      The Horizon 7 machines appear in the Security Filtering pane. The settings in the GPO apply only to these machines.

What to do next

Add the Horizon ADMX templates to the GPO.