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Chapter 19 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player

Setting Hot-Fix Policies for Standalone ACE Instances

ThispolicyenablesusersofstandaloneACEinstancestorequesthotfixesiftheylose

orforgettheACEpassword,trytorunanexpiredACEinstance,ormovea

copy‐protectedACEinstancetoanewlocation.

ToaddressthesetypesofproblemsformanagedratherthanstandaloneACEinstances,

usetheVMw

areHelpDeskWebapplicationortheinstanceviewinWorkstation.For

moreinformation,seetheACEManagementServerAdministrator’sGuide.

Thehot ‐fixrequestisafilethattheusermustsubmittoanadministratorforaction.You

configurewhethertheusersubmitsthefiletoanadministratormanual

lyorthrough

emailge

neratedbytheHotFixRequestwizard.

Forautomaticallygeneratedemail,theHotFixRequestwizardontheuser’scomputer

attemptstouseaMAPIemailclientonthehostoperatingsystem.Thehot‐fixrequest

fileisincludedasanattachmenttotheemailmessage.Themessageus

estheemail

addressandsubjectlinethatyouspecify.

Ifyouchooseemailandtheautomaticsubmissionfails,theHotFixRequestwizard

allowstheusertosavethehot‐fixrequestasafile.Theusermustthensendthefileto

anadministratormanually.

TheadministratorusesWorkstationtorespondtohot‐fixrequests.Se

e“Respondto

HotFixRequests”onpage 481.

Setting the Policy Update Frequency for Managed ACE

Instances

ThispolicycontrolshowoftenanACEinstanceconnectstoACEManagementServer

todownloadpolicyupdateswhileitisrunning.Italsocontrolshowlongamanaged

ACEinstancecanbeusedifitcannotconnecttoACEManagementServer.

ThispolicyappliesonlytomanagedACEinstances.Todeploypolicyupd

atesfor

standa

loneACEinstances,youmustcreatepolicyupdatepackages.Policychangesare

appliedwhentheinstanceisstartedafte rtheupdatepackageisinstalled.

Thesettingsforofflineusageincludetextforwarningandtimeoutmessages.Youcan

customizemessagesbyaddingtexttothem.Youcannotedittheexist

ingstandardtext

exceptbyusingthecontrolsonthepaneltochangethenumberofminutes,hours,or

daysshown.

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