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Table Of Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- Contents
- VMware Horizon View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Guest Operating Systems
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Firewall Rules for View Connection Server
- Reinstall View Connection Server with a Backup Configuration
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Understanding SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Overview of Tasks for Setting Up SSL Certificates
- Obtaining a Signed SSL Certificate from a CA
- Configure View Connection Server, Security Server, or View Composer to Use a New SSL Certificate
- Configure View Clients to Trust Root and Intermediate Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Configure the PCoIP Secure Gateway to Use a New SSL Certificate
- View Transfer Server and SSL Certificates
- Setting View Administrator to Trust a vCenter Server or View Composer Certificate
- Benefits of Using SSL Certificates Signed by a CA
- Configuring View for the First Time
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- View Administrator and View Connection Server
- Log In to View Administrator
- Install the View Connection Server License Key
- Add vCenter Server Instances to View Manager
- Configure View Composer Settings
- Configure View Composer Domains
- Allow vSphere to Reclaim Disk Space in Linked-Clone Virtual Machines
- Configure View Storage Accelerator for vCenter Server
- Concurrent Operations Limits for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Setting a Concurrent Power Operations Rate to Support View Desktop Logon Storms
- Accept the Thumbprint of a Default SSL Certificate
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Replacing Default Ports for View Services
- Replace the Default HTTP Ports or NICs for View Connection Server Instances and Security Servers
- Replace the Default Ports or NICs for the PCoIP Secure Gateway on View Connection Server Instances and on Security Servers
- Replace the Default Port for View Composer
- Replace the Default Ports for View Transfer Server
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Adding the View Desktops Plug-in to the vSphere Web Client
- Configuring Event Reporting
- Index
3 Modify the Certificate Friendly Name on page 77
To configure a View Connection Server instance or security server to recognize and use an SSL
certificate, you must modify the certificate Friendly name to vdm.
4 Import a Root Certificate and Intermediate Certificates into a Windows Certificate Store on page 78
If the Windows Server host on which View Connection Server is installed does not trust the root
certificate for the signed SSL server certificate, you must import the root certificate into the Windows
local computer certificate store. In addition, if the View Connection Server host does not trust the root
certificates of the SSL server certificates configured for security server, View Composer, and vCenter
Server hosts, you also must import those root certificates.
5 Bind a New SSL Certificate to the Port Used by View Composer on page 79
If you configure a new SSL certificate after you install View Composer, you must run the SviConfig
ReplaceCertificate utility to replace the certificate that is bound to the port used by View Composer.
This utility unbinds the existing certificate and binds the new certificate to the port.
Add the Certificate Snap-In to MMC
Before you can add certificates to the Windows Certificate Store, you must add the Certificate snap-in to the
Microsoft Management Console (MMC) on the Windows Server host on which the View server is installed.
Prerequisites
Verify that the MMC and Certificate snap-in are available on the Windows Server computer on which the
View server is installed.
Procedure
1 On the Windows Server computer, click Start and type mmc.exe.
2 In the MMC window, go to File > Add/Remove Snap-in.
3 In the Add or Remove Snap-ins window, select Certificates and click Add.
4 In the Certificates snap-in window, select Computer account, click Next, select Local computer, and
click Finish.
5 In the Add or Remove snap-in window, click OK.
What to do next
Import the SSL server certificate into the Windows Certificate Store.
Import a Signed Server Certificate into a Windows Certificate Store
You must import the SSL server certificate into the Windows local computer certificate store on the
Windows Server host on which the View Connection Server instance, security server, or View Composer
service is installed.
Depending on your certificate file format, the entire certificate chain that is contained in the keystore file
might be imported into the Windows local computer certificate store. For example, the server certificate,
intermediate certificate, and root certificate might be imported.
For other types of certificate files, only the server certificate is imported into the Windows local computer
certificate store. In this case, you must take separate steps to import the root certificate and any intermediate
certificates in the certificate chain.
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