Removing the list of Connection Servers from the View Client drop down list.

If anyone has been wondering as to how to remove the list of connection servers from the drop down list of the View Client, given below is the registry key which holds this value.

On the machine running the View Client, navigate to the below registry key. This key holds the list of Connection Servers that were connected to from the View Client. You can delete the values for this key if you want to empty the drop down list.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client\BrokerHistory

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Users have to login multiple times to get a View Session and muliple "Pending Session Expired....." events logged in the VIEW ADMINISTRATOR

You might notice an issue where end users would be required to login multiple times on the View Client before they get to a desktop.
As a View administrator, you would notice multiple events in the EVENTS of the VIEW ADMINISTRATOR.

"The pending session for user <domain/user> on VM <vm name> has expired".

If you are seeing this issue on a floating pool where the VMs are set to refresh or delete on logoff, this issue can be caused if your DNS server is not getting updated with the new IP address of the newly created/refreshed VMs.

When a View VM is deleted or refreshed, it gets a new MAC address and thereby a new IP address. Now ideally the DHCP server should update the DNS server. But in some environments, this does not appear to be the case. You can verify this by checking the IP on the VM itself and in the DNS server.

If you are experiencing this issue, you need to make a change on your DHCP server. For the scope under which the VMs fall, make sure the below option is enabled.

"Always dynamically update DNS A and PTR records"

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And yes, also make sure that the userinit key on the View VM has got the correct value. You can refer to VMware KB article or communities for this detail.

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