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Contents Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store 5 Setup and Installation 5 System Requirements 5 Preparing View Connection Server for Horizon Client 6 Supported Desktop Operating Systems 6 Install or Upgrade Horizon Client for Windows Store 7 Help Topics Available in Horizon Client 7 Horizon Client Data Collected by VMware 7 Using URIs to Configure Horizon Client 9 Syntax for Creating vmware-view URIs 10 Examples of vmware-view URIs 11 Managing Remote Desktop and Application Connections 13 Connect
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Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store This guide, Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store, provides information about installing and using VMware Horizon™ Client software on a Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, or Windows 8.1 Pro device to connect to a remote desktop in the data center. The information in this document includes system requirements and instructions for installing and using Horizon Client for Windows Store.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store VMware recommends that you use a security server so that your device will not require a VPN connection. Remote applications are available only on Horizon 6.0.x with View servers. Display protocol for remote desktops PCoIP Preparing View Connection Server for Horizon Client Administrators must perform specific tasks to enable end users to connect to remote desktops and applications.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Install or Upgrade Horizon Client for Windows Store Horizon Client for Windows Store is a Windows Store app, and you install it just as you do other Windows Store apps. You can install Horizon Client for Windows Store on tablets, desktop computers, or laptops that run Windows 8.1 or Windows RT 8.1, or Windows 8.1 Pro. Prerequisites n Verify that your client device uses the recommended operating system, which is Windows RT 8.1.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Table 1. Data Collected from Horizon Clients for the Customer Experience Improvement Program Is This Field Made Anonymous ? Example Value Company that produced the Horizon Client application No VMware Product name No VMware Horizon Client Client product version No (The format is x.x.x-yyyyyy, where x.x.x is the client version number and yyyyyy is the build number.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Table 1. Data Collected from Horizon Clients for the Customer Experience Improvement Program (Continued) Description Is This Field Made Anonymous ? MB of memory on the host system No Example Value Examples include the following: 4096 n unknown (for Windows Store) n Number of USB devices connected No 2 (USB device redirection is supported only for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X clients.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Syntax for Creating vmware-view URIs Syntax includes the vmware-view URI scheme, a path part to specify the desktop or application, and, optionally, a query to specify desktop or application actions or configuration options. URI Specification Use the following syntax to create URIs for launching Horizon Client: vmware-view://[authority-part][/path-part][?query-part] The only required element is the URI scheme, vmware-view.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Supported Queries This topic lists the queries that are supported for this type of Horizon Client. If you are creating URIs for multiple types of clients, such as desktop clients and mobile clients, see the Using VMware Horizon Client guide for each type of client system. IMPORTANT Horizon Client 3.2 supports specifying both desktops and applications. Horizon Client 3.1 and earlier releases supported specifying only desktops. action Table 2.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store This URI has the same effect as the previous example, except that it uses the nondefault port of 7555 for View Connection Server. (The default port is 443.) Because a desktop identifier is provided, the desktop is launched even though the start-session action is not included in the URI. 3 vmware-view://fred@view.mycompany.com/Finance%20Desktop?desktopProtocol=PCoIP Horizon Client is launched and connects to the view.mycompany.com server.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Managing Remote Desktop and Application Connections Use Horizon Client to connect to View Connection Server or a security server, edit the list of servers you connect to, log in to or off of remote desktops, and use remote applications. For troubleshooting purposes, you can also reset remote desktops and applications. Depending on how the administrator configures policies for remote desktops, end users might be able to perform many operations on their desktops.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store 3 If you are prompted a second time for RSA SecurID credentials or RADIUS authentication credentials, enter the next generated number on the token. Do not enter your PIN and do not enter the same generated number entered previously. If necessary, wait until a new number is generated. If this step is required, it is required only when you mistype the first passcode or when configuration settings in the RSA server change.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store n Does the common name on the certificate match the host name of the server that sends it? A mismatch can occur if a load balancer redirects Horizon Client to a server that has a certificate that does not match the host name entered in Horizon Client. Another reason a mismatch can occur is if you enter an IP address rather than a host name in the client.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Pin or Unpin a Desktop or Application Shortcut to the Start Screen Pinning a remote desktop or hosted application shortcut to the Start screen saves steps when logging in. Procedure 1 Tap the VMware Horizon app icon on the Start screen.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store If you disconnect from a remote desktop without logging off, applications remain open on the remote desktop. Prerequisites n Obtain the credentials that you need to log in, such as Active Directory user name and password, RSA SecurID user name and passcode, or RADIUS authentication user name and passcode. n Note that any unsaved files that are open on the remote desktop will be closed during the logoff operation.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store 2 Select a remote desktop or application from the same server or a different server. Option Action Choose a different remote desktop or application on the same server From the desktop and application selector window, tap the icon representing a different desktop or application.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Table 3. Remote Desktop Features Supported on Windows Store Systems (Continued) Feature Windows XP Desktop (View Agent 6.0.2 and earlier) Windows Vista Desktop (View Agent 6.0.2 and earlier) Windows 7 Desktop Single sign-on Limited Limited X Windows 8.x Desktop Windows Server 2008 R2 Desktop Windows Server 2012 R2 Desktop (View Agent 6.1 and later) X X X Multiple monitors IMPORTANT View Agent 6.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Limitations for Specific Features Location-based printing is supported for Windows Server 2008 R2 desktops, RDS desktops (on virtual machine RDS hosts), and remote applications only in Horizon Client 3.1 and later and Horizon 6.0.1 with View and later servers. NOTE You can also use Horizon Client to securely access remote Windows-based applications, in addition to remote desktops.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Click the expander arrow next to APPLICATIONS or DESKTOPS to see the complete list of available applications and desktops. From the sidebar, you can perform several actions. Table 5. Sidebar Actions for a Remote Application Action Procedure Show the sidebar When you have a remote application open, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. The sidebar appears, along with the app commands.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store When you are completing the login prompts to connect to a View server and log in to your remote desktop, if you do not have a keyboard attached to your device, the onscreen keyboard appears automatically when you tap in the text boxes. But after you log in to the operating system on your remote desktop, the onscreen keyboard no longer appears automatically, and you must use the Keyboard command to display the onscreen keyboard.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Sound, Music, and Video You can play audio and video in a remote desktop. To adjust the volume, swipe in from the right side of the screen, tap the Settings charm, and use the volume control. Key Combinations for Closing App Windows, Sending Ctrl+Alt+Del, Using the Alt Key, and Starting the Run App Tap Combination Key in the app commands to access these items: n The Alt+F4 item closes the currently active application window.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store If you have left a session idle for some amount of time, before the session times out, you receive a prompt, asking if you want to keep the session alive. Tap or click anywhere on the screen or press a key on your keyboard to keep the session alive. If enough time has passed so that the connection to the desktop or application was lost, you are returned to the desktop and application selector screen and are prompted to reconnect.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store n Tap the top of the VMware Horizon app and drag it to the bottom of the screen. n Use the Alt+F4 key combination. Internationalization and International Keyboards For this release of Horizon Client for Windows Store, the documentation and user interface are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Resetting a remote application quits all remote applications and logs off all of your remote application sessions. Unsaved changes in remote applications might be lost. NOTE A View administrator can disable the reset feature for certain types of desktops. For more information, see the View Administration document.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store Cause Unlike Windows Internet Explorer, the client device does not have an Internet option to bypass the proxy for local addresses. When an HTTP proxy is used for browsing external addresses, and you try to connect to View Connection Server using an internal address, you might see the error message Could not establish connection. Solution u Remove the proxy settings so that the device no longer uses a proxy.
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Index A L app commands for Horizon Client 21 log off 16 logging 27 logging in to a desktop 13 to a server 13 B background multitasking 23 C certificates, ignoring problems 14 closing Horizon Client 24 connection problems 26 copying text 24 copying and pasting 23 customer experience program, desktop pool data 7 D M managing desktops 13 multitasking 23 O onscreen keyboard 21 operating systems, supported on View Agent 6 options, configuration 21 P desktop log off from 16 reset 25 switch 17 disconnec
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows Store troubleshooting, connection problems 26 U URI examples 11 URI syntax for Horizon Clients 10 URIs (uniform resource identifiers) 9 V View Agent, installation requirements 6 View Connection Server 6 W Windows 8.1 and RT, installing Horizon Client on 5 Windows Store 7, 26 Windows Store Horizon Client, uninstalling 26 30 VMware, Inc.
