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Table Of Contents
- View Upgrades
- Contents
- View Upgrades
- View Upgrade Overview
- System Requirements for Upgrades
- Upgrading View Server Components
- Upgrading View Composer
- Upgrading View Connection Server
- Preparing View Connection Server for an Upgrade
- Upgrade View Connection Servers in a Replicated Group
- Enable TLSv1.0 on vCenter Connections from Connection Server
- Upgrade to the Latest Version of View Connection Server on a Different Machine
- Create a Replicated Group After Reverting View Connection Server to a Snapshot
- Upgrading View Security Server
- Upgrading View Servers in a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Upgrading View Servers to Allow HTML Access
- Upgrade vCenter Server
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Upgrade ESXi Hosts and Their Virtual Machines
- Upgrading Remote Desktops and Horizon Client
- Post-Upgrade Tasks to Enable New Features in Your View Setup
- Applying View Patches
- Upgrading vSphere Components Separately in a View Environment
- Index
Upgrading Remote Desktops and
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The remote desktop and the client components that you can upgrade include Horizon Client for any of the
supported desktop and mobile client platforms, thin clients provided by VMware partners, and the Horizon
Agent, which runs inside the operating systems of remote desktops and Microsoft RDS hosts.
IMPORTANT This chapter does not contain information about upgrading Horizon Agent on a Linux virtual
machine. For this information, see Setting Up Horizon 7 for Linux Desktops.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Security-Related Requirements for Remote Desktop Upgrade,” on page 47
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“Upgrade RDS Hosts That Provide Session-Based Desktops,” on page 47
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“Upgrade View Agent or Horizon Agent,” on page 48
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“Upgrade View Composer Desktop Pools,” on page 51
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“Upgrade the Client Application,” on page 52
Security-Related Requirements for Remote Desktop Upgrade
RC4, SSLv3, and TLSv1.0 are disabled by default in View components. If you need to reenable RC4, SSLv3,
or TLSv1.0 on a remote desktop, see "Older Protocols and Ciphers Disabled in View" in the View Security
document.
For complete information about the security features of View Agent, Horizon Agent, and Horizon Client,
see the Horizon Client and Agent Security document.
Upgrade RDS Hosts That Provide Session-Based Desktops
On RDS hosts with Windows Server 2008 R2 or a later operating system, you can upgrade the View Agent
or Horizon Agent software and edit pool settings so that the RDS host can provide remote desktops and
remote Windows-based applications.
With VMware Horizon 6.0 and later releases, you can use Microsoft RDS hosts to provide remote
applications, in addition to remote desktops. With this added functionality, the previously hidden server
farm name is displayed in View Administrator.
Prerequisites
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Verify that at least one View Connection Server instance in the replicated group has been upgraded.
View Connection Server must be upgraded first so that the secure JMS pairing mechanism can work
with Horizon Agent.
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