Installation
Table Of Contents
- View Installation
- Contents
- View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Installing View in an IPv6 Environment
- Setting Up View in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported vSphere, Database, and Active Directory Versions in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Operating Systems for View Servers in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Windows Operating Systems for Desktops and RDS Hosts in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Clients in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Remoting Protocols in an IPv6 Environment
- Supported Authentication Types in an IPv6 Environment
- Other Supported Features in an IPv6 Environment
- Installing View in FIPS Mode
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for Remote Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Creating a User Account for a Standalone View Composer Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer AD Operations
- Create a User Account for Instant-Clone Operations
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using Horizon 7 Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Disable Weak Ciphers in SSL/TLS
- Installing View Composer
- Prepare a View Composer Database
- Configuring an SSL Certificate for View Composer
- Install the View Composer Service
- Enable TLSv1.0 on vCenter and ESXi Connections from View Composer
- Configuring Your Infrastructure for View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Components Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure Client Endpoints to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Troubleshooting Certificate Issues on View Connection Server and Security Server
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- Horizon Administrator and Horizon Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the Product License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support Remote Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring Horizon Client Connections
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway and Secure Tunnel Connections
- Configure the Blast Secure Gateway
- Configuring External URLs for Secure Gateway and Tunnel Connections
- Set the External URLs for a View Connection Server Instance
- Modify the External URLs for a Security Server
- Give Preference to DNS Names When View Connection Server Returns Address Information
- Allow HTML Access Through a Load Balancer
- Allow HTML Access Through a Gateway
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Control Port for PCoIP Secure Gateway on Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Change the Port Number for HTTP Redirection to Connection Server
- Prevent HTTP Redirection for Client Connections to Connection Server
- Enable Remote Access to View Performance Counters on Connection Servers
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
Procedure
1 In the MMC window on the Windows Server host, expand the (local computer) node and
select the Personal folder.
2 From the Action menu, go to All Tasks > Request New to display the Certicate Enrollment
wizard.
3 Select a Certicate Enrollment Policy.
4 Select the types of certicates that you want to request, select the Make private key exportable option,
and click Enroll.
5 Click Finish.
The new signed certicate is added to the Personal > folder in the Windows Certicate Store.
What to do next
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Verify that the server certicate and certicate chain were imported into the Windows Certicate Store.
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For a View Connection Server instance or security server, modify the certicate friendly name to vdm.
See “Modify the Certicate Friendly Name,” on page 85.
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For a View Composer server, bind the new certicate to the port that used by View Composer. See
“Bind a New SSL Certicate to the Port Used by View Composer,” on page 87.
Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View
Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
To congure a View Connection Server instance, security server, or View Composer instance to use an SSL
certicate, you must import the server certicate and the entire certicate chain into the Windows local
computer certicate store on the View Connection Server, security server, or View Composer host.
In a pod of replicated View Connection Server instances, you must import the server certicate and
certicate chain on all instances in the pod.
By default, the Blast Secure Gateway (BSG) uses the SSL certicate that is congured for the View
Connection Server instance or security server on which the BSG is running. If you replace the default, self-
signed certicate for a View server with a CA-signed certicate, the BSG also uses the CA-signed certicate.
I To congure View Connection Server or security server to use a certicate, you must change
the certicate Friendly name to vdm. Also, the certicate must have an accompanying private key.
If you intend to replace an existing certicate or the default, self-signed certicate with a new certicate after
you install View Composer, you must run the SviConfig ReplaceCertificate utility to bind the new
certicate to the port used by View Composer.
Procedure
1 Add the Certicate Snap-In to MMC on page 84
Before you can add certicates to the Windows Certicate Store, you must add the Certicate snap-in
to the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on the Windows Server host on which the View server
is installed.
2 Import a Signed Server Certicate into a Windows Certicate Store on page 84
You must import the SSL server certicate into the Windows local computer certicate store on the
Windows Server host on which the View Connection Server instance or security server service is
installed.
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