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How can I get my virtual desktop into a specific OU?

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There are two different ways to customize virtual desktops in VMware View. Automated pools can be craeted with VM templates and with the View Composer, the linked clone technology. When using linked clones a function called Quickprep will personalize the desktops, create the Active Directory Computer account and them them to the chosen Organizational Unit.

When using sysprep, there are more ways to get them into the OU.

1.) Precreate the account in the specific domain / OU

2.) Don’t include the domain join in the sysprep file. Write a script which joins the domain executed through RunOnce in Sysprep.

3.) Include the domain join in sysprep and move the account afterwards with Windows command line tools such as dsmove.

Links:

DSMOVE description at Microsoft Technet

Script to move a computer account from one OU to another at Scripting guy

Written by Christoph Harding

April 21st, 2009 at 11:19 am

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