Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 5 Client Management
Allparametersexceptfile,languageId,rollback,checkout,checkin,
staycheckedout,andofflineDirectorycanalsobespecifiedbyActiveDirectory
grouppolicies.RefertoChapter 8,“ComponentPolicies,”onpage 179formore
informationaboutthis.
View Client Configuration File
TheconnectionoptionsrequiredbyViewClientcanbeloadedonstartupfroman
externalconfigurationfile.ThefilemustbeaUnicode(UTF‐16)orASCIItextfilethat
containsentriesofthefollowingformat:
-serverURL <URL>
-userName <user name>
-domainName <domain name>
-password <password>
-desktopName <desktop name>
TolaunchViewClientsothatitreadstheconfigurationfileonstartup,enterthe
following:
"C:\ProgramFiles\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc" -f <filename>
Virtual Printing
TheVirtualPrinting(ThinPrint)featureofViewallowsView ClientandView Client
withOfflineDesktopuserstotransparentlyuselocalornetworkprintersfromwithin
theirremotesystems,yetremovestherequirementforinstallingproprietaryprinter
driversoneachViewdesktop.
staycheckedout (OfflineDesktoponly)Backsupthedataonacheckedout
desktoptotheserver,butkeepstheofflinedesktopcheckedout.
ThispropertyrequiresthedesktopNamepropertytobesupplied.
offlineDirectory <xxx> (OfflineDesktoponly)Specifiesthelocaldirectorypathinto
whichanewofflinedesktopisdownloaded.
Thispropertyrequiresthe
desktopNamepropertytobesupplied.
NOTECommandlinepropertiesoverridesystempolicies,whichinturnoverrideuser
policies.
Table 5-1. View Client Command Line Options (Continued)
Property Description
NOTEViewPortaldoesnotsupportVirtualPrinting.