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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
5 Click Next, click Next, and click Finish.
6 If your server certificate was signed by an intermediate CA, import all intermediate certificates in the
certificate chain into the Windows local computer certificate store.
a Go to the Certificates (Local Computer) > Intermediate Certification Authorities > Certificates
folder.
b Repeat steps 3 through 6 for each intermediate certificate that must be imported.
7 Restart the View Connection Server service, Security Server service, View Composer service, or vCenter
Server service to make your changes take effect.
Bind a New SSL Certificate to the Port Used by View Composer
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.
If you install the new certificate on the Windows Server computer before you install View Composer, you
do not have to run the SviConfig ReplaceCertificate utility. When you run the View Composer installer,
you can select a certificate signed by a CA instead of the default, self-signed certificate. During the
installation, the selected certificate is bound to the port used by View Composer.
If you intend to replace an existing certificate or the default, self-signed certificate with a new certificate, you
must use the SviConfig ReplaceCertificate utility.
Prerequisites
Verify that the new certificate was imported into the Windows local computer certificate store on the
Windows Server computer on which View Composer is installed.
Procedure
1 Stop the View Composer service.
2 Open a command prompt on the Windows Server host where View Composer is installed.
3 Type the SviConfig ReplaceCertificate command.
For example:
sviconfig -operation=ReplaceCertificate
-delete=false
where -delete is a required parameter that operates on the certificate that is being replaced. You must
specify either -delete=true to delete the old certificate from the Windows local computer certificate
store or -delete=false to keep the old certificate in the Windows certificate store.
The utility displays a numbered list of SSL certificates that are available in the Windows local computer
certificate store.
4 To select a certificate, type the number of a certificate and press Enter.
5 Restart the View Composer service to make your changes take effect.
Example: SviConfig ReplaceCertificate
The following example replaces the certificate that is bound to the View Composer port:
sviconfig -operation=ReplaceCertificate
-delete=false
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