For this setup I will be using my “administrator” user from AD. The FQDN of my AD is “ad.” and the NETBIOS-name is “AD”. Next, I configure PBIS to join this computer account to my Active Directory.

I proceed with installing PBIS using the following commands: sudo wget -O - |sudo apt-key add. I can now use Putty to do the rest of the configuration. Before I start, I install OpenSSH using the following command: sudo apt install openssh-server -y Integrating the Ubuntu VM with MS AD is a multi-step procedure, when using PBIS.

VMware’s official documentation about setting up Linux with in VMware Horizon is here: Setting Up Linux Published Desktops and Applications for Multi-Session Use. VMware has a great guide to setting up Linux as a Horizon desktop, but I find it lacking in some areas, although this is most likely due to the fact that there are different ways of using the Linux-specific technology to achieve the same goals. As I’m in no sense a Linux-expert, this has been planned for quite awhile. In this session I will venture into the “somewhat unknown”, VMware Horizon 8 Multi-session Linux desktops and apps. Previously, this functionality demanded MS RDS with expensive licensing, but is now available with Linux. This is a very cool new feature that is very helpful in many use cases. Release Notes for VMware Horizon Version 2006. With the release of VMware Horizon 8, the possibility to use Linux multi session with Ubuntu and Red Hat was presented.

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