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View supports smart cards and smart card readers that use a PKCS#11 or Microsoft CryptoAPI provider.
You can optionally install the ActivIdentity ActivClient software suite, which provides tools for interacting
with smart cards.
Users that authenticate with smart cards must have a smart card or USB smart card token, and each smart
card must contain a user certificate.
To install certificates on a smart card, you must set up a computer to act as an enrollment station. This
computer must have the authority to issue smart card certificates for users, and it must be a member of the
domain you are issuing certificates for.
IMPORTANT When you enroll a smart card, you can choose the key size of the resulting certificate. To use
smart cards with local desktops, you must select a 1024-bit or 2048-bit key size during smart card
enrollment. Certificates with 512-bit keys are not supported.
The Microsoft TechNet Web site includes detailed information on planning and implementing smart card
authentication for Windows systems.
In addition to meeting these requirements for Horizon Client systems, other View components must meet
certain configuration requirements to support smart cards:
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For information about configuring View servers to support smart card use, see the topic "Configure
Smart Card Authentication," in the View Administration document.
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For information about tasks you might need to perform in Active Directory to implement smart card
authentication, see the topics about preparing Active Directory for smart card authentication, in the
View Installation document.
Client Browser Requirements for Using the Horizon Client Portal
From a client system, you can open a browser and browse to a View Connection Server instance. The Web
page that appears is a portal that contains links for downloading the installer file for Horizon Client.
To use the portal to download a Horizon Client installer, you must have one of the following Web browsers:
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Chrome 38 and 39 (for HTML Access 2.6), Chrome 35, 36, and 37 (for HTML Access 2.5); Chrome 33 and
34 (for HTML Access 2.4)
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Internet Explorer 10 and 11
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Internet Explorer 9 (limited support for HTML Access 2.4 and 2.5)
NOTE Internet Explorer 9 is not supported for HTML Access 2.6.
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Safari 7 and 8 (for HTML Access 2.6), Safari 6.1.3 and 7 (for HTML Access 2.4 and 2.5),
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Mobile Safari on iOS devices running iOS 7 or later
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Firefox 33 (for HTML Access 2.6), Firefox 30 and 31 (for HTML Access 2.5), Firefox 28 and 29 (for
HTML Access 2.4)
If your administrator has installed HTML Access on the server, you might also see an icon for connecting to
a virtual desktop using the browser, without installing any client software.
Supported Desktop Operating Systems
Administrators create virtual machines with a guest operating system and install View Agent in the guest
operating system. End users can log in to these virtual machines from a client device.
For a list of the supported guest operating systems, see the "Supported Operating Systems for View Agent"
topic in the View 5.x or 6.x installation documentation.
Chapter 1 System Requirements and Setup for Windows-Based Clients
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