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If you are outside the corporate network and are not using a security server to access the remote
desktop, verify that your client device is set up to use a VPN connection and turn on that connection.
I VMware recommends using a security server rather than a VPN.
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Verify that you have the fully qualied domain name (FQDN) of the server that provides access to the
remote desktop or application. Underscores (_) are not supported in server names. You also need the
port number if the port is not 443.
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If you plan to use the RDP display protocol to connect to a remote desktop, verify that the
AllowDirectRDP agent group policy seing is enabled.
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If your administrator has allowed it, you can congure the certicate checking mode for the SSL
certicate presented by View Connection Server. To determine which mode to use, see “Seing the
Certicate Checking Mode for Horizon Client,” on page 40.
Procedure
1 Double-click the VMware Horizon Client desktop shortcut or click Start > Programs > VMware >
VMware Horizon Client.
2 (Optional) To set the certicate checking mode, click the Options buon in the menu bar and select
 SSL.
You can congure this option only if your administrator has allowed it.
3 (Optional) To log in as the currently logged-in Windows domain user, click the Options buon in the
menu bar and select Log in as current user.
This option is available if the Log in as current user module is installed on your client system, and if
your administrator has enabled the global seing for this feature. Some companies choose not to enable
this feature.
4 Double-click the + Add Server buon if no servers have yet been added, or click the + New Server
buon in the menu bar, and enter the name of View Connection Server or a security server, and click
Connect.
Connections between Horizon Client and View Connection Server always use SSL. The default port for
SSL connections is 443. If View Connection Server is not congured to use the default port, use the
format shown in this example: view.company.com:1443.
You might see a message that you must conrm before the login dialog box appears.
N After a successful connection is made, an icon for this server is saved to the Horizon Client home
screen. The next time you open Horizon Client to connect to this server, you can double-click the icon,
or, if you use only this one server, you can right-click the icon for the server and select Autoconnect to
this Server from the context menu.
5 If you are prompted for RSA SecurID credentials or RADIUS authentication credentials, enter the user
name and passcode and click Continue.
6 Enter the credentials of a user who is entitled to use at least one desktop or application pool, select the
domain, and click Login.
If you type the user name using the format user@domain, the name is treated as a user principal name
(UPN) because of the @ sign, and the domain drop-down menu is disabled.
For information about creating desktop pools and entitling users to pools, see Seing Up Desktop and
Application Pools in View document.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows
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