User manual

Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. In the login box, the User name
text box is populated with the name fred. The user must supply the domain name and password. After
a successful login, the client connects to the desktop whose display name is displayed as Finance
Desktop, and the user is logged in to the guest operating system. The connection uses the PCoIP
display protocol.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Calculator?action=start-session&appProtocol=BLAST
Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. In the login box, the user must
supply the user name, domain name, and password. After a successful login, the client connects to the
application whose display name is displayed as Calculator. The connection uses the VMware Blast
display protocol.
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vmware-view://[e-mail]/Finance%20Desktop?domainName=mycompany
Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. In the login box, the User name
text box is populated with the name fred, and the Domain text box is populated with mycompany. The
user must supply only a password. After a successful login, the client connects to the desktop whose
display name is displayed as Finance Desktop, and the user is logged in to the guest operating system.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/
Horizon Client starts and the user is taken to the login prompt for connecting to the
view.mycompany.com server.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=reset
Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. The login box prompts the user for
a user name, domain name, and password. After a successful login, Horizon Client displays a dialog
box that prompts the user to conrm the reset operation for Primary Desktop.
N This action is available only if a Horizon administrator has enabled the desktop reset feature for
the desktop.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=restart
Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. The login box prompts the user for
a user name, domain name, and password. After a successful login, Horizon Client displays a dialog
box that prompts the user to conrm the restart operation for Primary Desktop.
N This action is available only if a Horizon administrator has enabled the desktop restart feature
for the desktop.
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vmware-view://view.mycompany.com/Primary%20Desktop?action=start-
session&connectUSBOnStartup=true
This URI has the same eect as the rst example, and all USB devices connected to the client system are
redirected to the remote desktop.
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vmware-view://
This URI starts Horizon Client if it is not running, or brings Horizon Client to the foreground if it is
running.
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vmware-view://10.10.10.10/My%20Notepad++?args=%22My%20new%20file.txt%22
Launches My Notepad++ on server 10.10.10.10 and passes the argument My new file.txt in the
application launch command. Spaces and double quotes use percent escaping. The lename is enclosed
in double quotes because it contains spaces.
You can also type this command at the Windows command line prompt by using the following syntax:
vmware-view.exe --serverURL 10.10.10.10 --appName "My Notepad++" --args "\"my new.txt\""
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows
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