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A compatible smart card reader
VMware tested the U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) and U.S. Federal
Government Personal Identity Verication (PIV), also called FIPS-201 smart cards.
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Product-specic application drivers
Users who authenticate with smart cards must have a smart card and each smart card must contain a user
certicate.
Remote Desktop and Application Software Requirements
A Horizon administrator must install product-specic application drivers on the remote desktops or RDS
host. For Windows 7 remote desktops, the operating system installs the related driver when you insert a
smart card reader and PIV card. For Windows XP and Windows Vista remote desktops, you can install the
related driver by using ActivIdentify ActivClient.
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 Unied Access Gateway appliance rather than a security server for secure
external access, you must congure the Unied Access Gateway appliance to support the smart card user
name hints feature. The smart card user name hints feature is supported only with Unied Access Gateway
2.7.2 and later. For information about enabling the smart card user name hints feature in
Unied Access Gateway, see the Deploying and Conguring Unied Access Gateway document.
N Horizon Client still supports single-account smart card certicates when the smart card user name
hints feature is enabled.
Additional Smart Card Authentication Requirements
In addition to meeting the smart card requirements for Horizon Client systems, other Horizon components
must meet certain conguration requirements to support smart cards.
Connection Server and
security server hosts
An administrator 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.
When you generate a certicate for a blank PIV card, enter the path to the
server truststore le on the Connection Server or security server host on the
Crypto Provider tab in the PIV Data Generator tool.
For information about conguring Connection Server to support smart card
use, see the View Administration document.
Active Directory
For information about tasks that an administrator might need to perform in
Active Directory to implement smart card authentication, see the View
Administration document.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation
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