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Chapter 19 Setting and Using Policies and Customizing VMware Player
Active Directory Password Change Proxying
YoucanprovideadditionalsecurityforyourACEinstancesbyintegratingwithActive
Directory.
Youcanspecifypasswordexpirationandchangerequirements,setupthedomainto
expirepasswords,andrequirepasswordchangesperiodically.Thesesettingsarein
additiontoACEaccesscontrolpolicysettings.
IncasesinwhichActiveDirectoryusersneedtochang
etheirpasswords,youcan
configureACEManagementServerasanActiveDirectorypasswordchangeproxy.In
thismode,ACEManagementServermakesthepasswordchangerequesttotheActive
Directorydomaincontrollerontheuser’sbehalf.
Setting Host to Guest Data Script Policies
YoucanprovideahosttoguestdatascriptthatrunswhentheACEinstanceispowered
on.Itpassesvaluestotheguest.Usethispolicysettingtosharespecifichost
informationwiththeguestoperatingsystemwhentheACEinstanceispoweredon.
Thescript,whichrunsonthehost,sh
ouldoutputase
tofkey‐valuepairs,which
becomeavailabletotheapplicationsthatarerunninginsidetheguest.TheVMware
Toolsserviceprovidesthisability.Thesetofacceptablekeysconsistsofmachine.id
andkeysprefixedwithguestinfo,suchasguestinfo.ipAddress.
Keyscancontainalphanumericcharactersandsymbols,inc
ludingtheperiod(.),
underscore(_),backslash(\)andpipe(|)characters.Thenewline,#,space,and
forwardslash(/)charactersareinvalidforthekey.Valuescancontainalphanumeric
characters.The#,space,andpipe(|)charactersareinvalidforthekey.Anykey‐value
pairthatcontainsinvalidcharacte
rsisig
noredsilently.
Sincespacesareinvalid,usingaphraselikeMy Documentsaspartofafolderpathvalue
doesnotwork.Instead,enclosethephraseinquotationmarks:ʺMyDocumentsʺ
Alternatively,youcanusetheshort8.3DOSname(inthiscase,mydoc~1),whichdoes
notcontainaspac
e.Toobta
intheshort8.3DOSnamesforthesubdirectoriesina
directory,enterdir /x atthecommandprompt.
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