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Preparing Connection Server for Horizon Client
Administrators must perform specic tasks to enable end users to connect to remote desktops and
applications.
Before end users can connect to Connection Server or a security server and access a remote desktop or
application, you must congure certain pool seings and security seings:
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If you plan to use Access Point, congure Connection Server to work with Access Point. See Deploying
and Conguring Access Point. Access Point appliances fulll the same role that was previously played by
only security servers.
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If you are using a security server, verify that you are using the latest maintenance releases of
Connection Server 5.3.x and Security Server 5.3.x or later releases. For more information, see the View
Installation document.
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If you plan to use a secure tunnel connection for client devices and if the secure connection is
congured with a DNS host name for Connection Server or a security server, verify that the client
device can resolve this DNS name.
To enable or disable the secure tunnel, in View Administrator, go to the Edit View Connection Server
Seings dialog box and use the check box called Use secure tunnel connection to desktop.
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Verify that a desktop or application pool has been created and that the user account that you plan to use
is entitled to access the pool.
For Connection Server 5.3.x, see the topics about creating desktop pools in the View Administration
document. For Connection Server 6.0 and later, see the topics about creating desktop and application
pools in the Seing Up Desktop and Application Pools in View document.
I If end users have a high-resolution display and will use the High Resolution Mode client
seing while viewing their remote desktops in full screen mode, you must allocate sucient VRAM for
each Windows 7 or later remote desktop. The amount of vRAM depends on the number of monitors
congured for end users and on the display resolution. To estimate the amount of vRAM you need, see
the section "RAM Sizing for Specic Monitor Congurations" of the topic "Estimating Memory
Requirements for Virtual Desktops," in the View Architecture Planning document.
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To use two-factor authentication with Horizon Client, such as RSA SecurID or RADIUS authentication,
you must enable this feature on Connection Server. For more information, see the topics about two-
factor authentication in the View Administration document.
Configure VMware Blast Options
You can congure H.264 decoding and network protocol options for remote desktop and application
sessions that use the VMware Blast display protocol.
The maximum resolution that is supported depends on the capability of the graphical processing unit (GPU)
on the client. A GPU that can support 4K resolution for JPEG/PNG might not support 4K resolution for H.
264. If a resolution for H.264 is not supported, Horizon Client uses JPEG/PNG instead.
Prerequisites
This feature requires Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
Procedure
1 In the desktop and application selector window of Horizon Client, click the Seings icon in the upper-
right portion of the window, and select VMware Blast in the left pane of the Seings window.
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