Installation and Setup Guide

For more information about FIPS mode, go to hps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/811833.
I If you do not enable FIPS mode before running the Horizon Client installer, the installer option
to use FIPS-compliant cryptography does not appear during a custom installation. FIPS-compliant
cryptography is not enabled during a typical installation. If you install Horizon Client without the FIPS-
compliant cryptography option and you later decide to use the option, you must uninstall the client, enable
FIPS mode in the client operating system, and run the Horizon Client installer again.
Install Horizon Client for Windows
You can run a Windows-based installer le to install all Horizon Client components.
This procedure describes how to install Horizon Client by using an interactive installation wizard. To install
Horizon Client from the command line, see “Installing Horizon Client From the Command Line,” on
page 27. To install the URL Content Redirection feature, you must run the installer from the command line.
N You can install Horizon Client in a remote desktop virtual machine if that desktop is running View
Agent 6.0 or later, or Horizon Agent 7.0 or later. Companies might use this installation strategy if their end
users access remote applications from Windows thin-client devices.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the client system uses a supported operating system. See “System Requirements for
Windows Client Systems,” on page 9.
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Verify that you have the URL for a download page that contains the Horizon Client installer. This URL
might be the VMware Downloads page at hp://www.vmware.com/go/viewclients, or it might be the
URL for a Connection Server instance.
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Verify that you can log in as an administrator on the client system.
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Verify that the domain controllers have the latest patches, enough free disk space, and can communicate
with each other. Otherwise, when you run the installer on a Windows 8.1 system, the installer can take
an unusual amount of time to nish. This problem occurs if the machine's domain controller, or another
domain controller in its hierarchy, is unresponsive or unreachable.
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If you plan to install Horizon Client with FIPS-compliant cryptography, enable FIPS mode in the client
operating system before you run the Horizon Client installer. See “Enabling FIPS Mode in the Windows
Client Operating System,” on page 25.
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If you plan to install the USB Redirection component, do the following:
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Determine whether the person who uses the client device is allowed to access locally connected
USB devices from a remote desktop. If access is not permied, either do not install the USB
Redirection component, or install the component and disable it by using a group policy seing. If
you use group policy to disable USB redirection, you do not need to reinstall Horizon Client if you
later decide to enable USB redirection for a client. For more information, see “Scripting Denition
Seings for Client GPOs,” on page 45.
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Verify that the Windows Automatic Update feature is not turned o on the client computer.
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Decide whether to use the feature that allows end users to log in to Horizon Client and their remote
desktop as the currently logged in user. Credential information that the user entered when logging in to
the client system is passed to the Connection Server instance and ultimately to the remote desktop.
Some client operating systems do not support this feature.
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If you do not want to require end users to supply the fully qualied domain name (FQDN) of the
Connection Server instance, determine the FQDN so that you can supply it during installation.
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