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Chapter 1 Introduction

View Agent

YoumusthaveadministrativeprivilegestoinstallViewAgentonWindows

View Managerdesktops.

View Composer

YoucannotusetheViewComposerfeatureofViewManagertodeploydesktopsthat

runWindowsVistaUltimateEditionorWindowsXPProfessionalSP1.Formore

informationaboutViewComposer,refertoChapter 6,“ViewComposer,”onpage 127.

Volume Licensing and Windows Vista Ultimate

WindowsVistaUltimateisnotdesignedforbroadenterprisedeploymentandtherefore

doesnotsupportvolumelicensing—inordertodeploydesktopclonesthatuse

WindowsVistaUltimate,youmustfirstcontactMicrosoftinordertodetermineyour

licensingobligations.

Table 1-2. Operating System Support for Web-Based Components (32-bit)

Operating System View Portal View Administrator

WindowsXPProfessionalSP1InternetExplorer6SP2

InternetExplorer7

InternetExplorer7

InternetExplorer8

Firefox3.0

Firefox3.5

WindowsXPProfessionalSP2

WindowsXPProfessionalSP3

WindowsXPHomeSP2

WindowsXPHomeSP3

WindowsVistaHomeInternetExplorer7

WindowsVistaHomePremium

WindowsVistaBusiness

WindowsVista

BusinessSP1

WindowsVistaUltimate

WindowsVistaUltimateSP1

RHEL5.0,Update1‐experimental Firefox2.0/3.0

JavaJRE1.5.0or1.6.0

rdesktop

SLES10SP1‐experimental

Ubuntu8.04‐experimental

MacOS/XTiger(10.4)‐experimental Safari

JavaJRE1.5.0

RDC2.0

MacOS/XLeopard(10.5)‐experimental