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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.
Horizon 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 certicate.
To install certicates 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 certicates for users, and it must be a member of the
domain you are issuing certicates for.
I When you enroll a smart card, you can choose the key size of the resulting certicate. To use
smart cards with local desktops, you must select a 1024-bit or 2048-bit key size during smart card
enrollment. Certicates 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 Horizon 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 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 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 Horizon 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 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.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows
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