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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Installing the View Agent on the Parent VM
Ifitisnotalreadypresent,youmustinstalltheViewAgentontheParentVMtoallow
theViewConnectionServertocommunicatewiththedesktopclonescreatedfromthe
baseimage.
To install View Agent
1Runthefollowingexecutableontheguestsystem,wherexxxxxxisthebuild
numberofthefile:
VMware-viewagent-xxxxxx.exe
2WhentheVMwareInstallationwizardappears,clickNext.
3AccepttheVMwarelicensetermsandclickNext.
4 Selectyourcustomsetupoptions.YoumustinstalltheViewComposerAgent.
Youcanalsoselectordeselectthefollowingfeatures:
Ifyouwanttoallowuserstodownloadacopyoftheirvirtualdesktopsfrom
theViewConnectionServerforuseonalocalcomputersuchasalaptop,
installtheOfflineDesktopcomponent.
OfflineDesktopisnotsupportedwithvSphere4.OfflineDesktopisan
experimentalfeature.Referto“System
Requirements”onpage 14formore
informationaboutexperimentalfeatures.
IfvirtualdesktopusersneedtoaccesslocallyconnectedUSBdeviceswith
theirvirtualdesktops,installtheUSBRedirectioncomponent.
Ifyouwanttoenablesinglesign‐on(SSO),installtheViewSecure
Authenticationcomponent.
Ifenabled,whenuserslogintoViewClienttheyarenotpromptedtore‐enter
theirauthenticationinformationtologintotheirvirtualdesktops.
Ifyouwanttoenableuserstoprinttoanyprinteravailabletotheirclient
systemswithoutfirstinstallingadditionaldriversontheirvirtualdesktops,
installtheVirtualPrintingcomponent.See“VirtualPrinting”onpage 117.
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OTEWindows2000doesnotsupportUSBredirection.