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Each client system that uses a smart card for user authentication must have the following software and
hardware:
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Horizon Client
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A compatible smart card reader
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Product-specic application drivers
You must also install product-specic application drivers on the remote desktops or Microsoft RDS host.
Users that authenticate with smart cards must have a smart card and each smart card must contain a user
certicate.
In addition to meeting these requirements for Horizon Client systems, other View components must meet
certain conguration requirements to support smart cards:
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For information about conguring Connection Server to support smart card use, see "Seing Up Smart
Card Authentication" in the View Administration document.
You must add all applicable Certicate Authority (CA) certicates for all trusted user certicates to a
server truststore le on the Connection Server host or security server host. These certicates include
root certicates and must include intermediate certicates if the user's smart card certicate was issued
by an intermediate certicate authority.
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For information about tasks you might need to perform in Active Directory to implement smart card
authentication, see "Seing Up Smart Card Authentication" in the View Administration document.
Enabling the Username Hint Field in Horizon Client
In some environments, smart card users can use a single smart card certicate to authenticate to multiple
user accounts. Users enter their user name in the Username hint eld during smart card sign-in.
To make the Username hint eld appear on the Horizon Client login dialog box, you must enable the smart
card user name hints feature for the Connection Server instance in View Administrator. The smart card user
name hints feature is supported only with Horizon 7 version 7.0.2 and later servers and agents. For
information about enabling the smart card user name hints feature, see "Seing Up Smart Card
Authentication" in the View Administration document.
If your environment uses an Access Point appliance rather than a security server for secure external access,
you must congure the Access Point appliance to support the smart card user name hints feature. The smart
card user name hints feature is supported only with Access Point 2.7.2 and later. For information about
enabling the smart card user name hints feature in Access Point, see the Deploying and Conguring Access
Point document.
N Horizon Client still supports single-account smart card certicates when the smart card user name
hints feature is enabled.
Configure Smart Card Authentication
Conguration tasks include connecting and pairing the card reader with the device and seing the smart
card removal policy.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you are using the correct version of the client, desktop agent, server, operating system, smart
card reader, and smart card. See “Smart Card Authentication Requirements,” on page 8.
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If you have not already done so, perform the tasks described in "Prepare Active Directory for Smart
Card Authentication," in the View Installation document.
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