Installation and Setup Guide

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Each client device that uses a smart card for user authentication must have the following hardware and
software:
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Horizon Client
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A compatible smart card reader.
Alternatively, you can use the Purebred app for derived credentials. To use derived credentials, you
must also create a virtual smart card in Horizon Client.
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Product-specific application drivers
Users that authenticate with smart cards must have a physical or virtual smart card, and each smart card
must contain a user certificate.
Remote Desktop and Application Software Requirements
A Horizon administrator must install product-specific application drivers on the remote desktops or RDS
host.
Horizon Client for iOS supports using smart cards with remote desktops that have Windows 7, Windows
Vista, Windows XP, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2008 R2 guest operating systems.
For published desktops and remote applications, the Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server
2012 R2 operating systems are supported.
Enabling the Username Hint Field in Horizon Client
In some environments, smart card users can use a single smart card certificate to authenticate to multiple
user accounts. Users enter their user name in the Username hint field during smart card sign-in.
To make the Username hint field 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 Unified Access Gateway appliance rather than a security server for secure
external access, you must configure the Unified Access Gateway appliance to support the smart card
user name hints feature. The smart card user name hints feature is supported only with
Unified Access Gateway 2.7.2 and later. For information about enabling the smart card user name hints
feature in Unified Access Gateway, see the Deploying and Configuring Unified Access Gateway
document.
Note Horizon Client still supports single-account smart card certificates when the smart card user name
hints feature is enabled.
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