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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Always on top DetermineswhethertheViewClientwindowisalways
thetopmostwindow.Enablingthissettingp reventsthe
Windowstaskbarfromobscuringafull‐screenView
Clientwindow.Thissettingisenabledbydefault.
Don’t check monitor
alignment on spanning
Bydefault,theclientdesktopwillnotspanmultiple
monitorsifthescreensdonotformanexact
rectangle
whenincombination(thatis,identicalheightsif
positionedleftandrightmonitors,oridenticalwidthsif
positionedtopandbottom).
Thispropertyoverridesthisruleandisdisabledby
default.
Enable multi-media
acceleration
Specifiesifmultimediaredirection(MMR)isenabledon
theclient.MMRisaMicrosoftDirectShowfilterthat
forwards
multimediadatafromspecificcodecsonthe
remotesystemdirectlythroughaTCPsockettotheclient.
Thedataisthendecodeddirectlyontheclient,whereitis
played.
AdministratorscandisableMMRiftheclienthas
insufficientresourcestohandlelocalmultimedia
decoding.
Note:MMRwillnotworkcorrectly
iftheViewclient
videodisplayhardwaredoesnothaveoverlaysupport.
MMRpolicydoesnotapplytoOfflineDesktopsessions.
Table 8-18. View Client Configuration Properties – Scripting Definitions
Property Description
Server URL DeterminestheURLusedbyViewClientduringlogin.
Forexample:http://view1.example.com
Logon UserName DeterminestheusernameusedbyViewClientduring
login.
Logon DomainName DeterminestheNETBIOSdomainnameusedby
View Clientduringlogin.
Logon Password DeterminesthepasswordusedbyViewClientduring
login.
Caution:thispasswordisstoredinplaintextby
Active
Directory.
DesktopName to select DeterminesthedefaultdesktopusedbyViewClient
duringlogin.
Table 8-17. View Client Configuration Properties (Continued)
Property Description