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You can make installer links for specic client operating systems in either the portal-links-html-
access.properties or oslinks.properties le. For example, if you browse to the portal page from a Mac OS X
system, the link for the native Mac OS X installer appears. For Windows or Linux clients, you can make
separate links for 32-bit and 64-bit installers.
I If you upgraded from View Connection Server 5.x or an earlier release and did not have the
HTML Access component installed, and if you previously edited the portal page to point to your own server
for downloading Horizon Client, those customizations might be hidden after you install View Connection
Server 6.0 or later. With Horizon 6 or later, the HTML Access component is automatically installed during
an upgrade of View Connection Server.
If you already installed the HTML Access component separately for View 5.x, any customizations you made
to the Web page are preserved. If you did not have the HTML Access component installed, any
customizations you had made are hidden. The customizations for earlier releases reside in the portal-
links.properties le, which is no longer used.
Procedure
1 On the View Connection Server host, open the portal-links-html-access.properties le with a text
editor.
The location of this le is CommonAppDataFolder\VMware\VDM\portal\portal-links-html-
access.properties. For Windows Server 2008 operating systems, the CommonAppDataFolder directory is
C:\ProgramData. To display the C:\ProgramData folder in Windows Explorer, you must use the Folder
Options dialog box to show hidden folders.
If the portal-links-html-access.properties le does not exist and the oslinks.properties le does,
open the <installation-directory>\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\portal\WEB-
INF\oslinks.properties le to modify the URLs to use for downloading specic installer les.
N Customizations for View 5.x and earlier releases resided in the portal-links.properties le,
which is located in the same CommonAppDataFolder\VMware\VDM\portal\ directory as the portal-links-
html-access.properties le.
2 Edit the conguration properties to set them appropriately.
By default, both the installer icon and the HTML Access icon are enabled and a link points to the client
download page on the VMware Web site. To disable an icon, which removes the icon from the Web
page, set the property to false.
N The oslinks.properties le can only be used to congure the links to the specic installer les.
It does not support the other options listed below.
Option Property Setting
Disable HTML Access
enable.webclient=false
If this option is set to false but the enable.download option is set to true,
the user is taken to a Web page for downloading the native Horizon Client
installer. If both options are set to false, the user sees the following
message: "Contact your local administrator for instructions
on accessing this Connection Server."
Disable downloading Horizon Client
enable.download=false
If this option is set to false but the enable.webclient option is set to true,
the user is taken to the HTML Access login Web page. If both options are
set to false, the user sees the following message: "Contact your local
administrator for instructions on accessing this Connection
Server."
Change the URL of the Web page
for downloading Horizon Client
link.download=https://url-of-web-server
Use this property if you plan to create your own Web page.
Using HTML Access
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