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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
Configuring Certificate Revocation Checking on Server Certificates
Each View Connection Server instance performs certificate revocation checking on its own certificate and on
those of the security servers paired to it. Each instance also checks the certificates of vCenter and View
Composer servers whenever it establishes a connection to them. By default, all certificates in the chain are
checked except the root certificate. You can, however, change this default.
If a SAML 2.0 authenticator is configured for use by a View Connection Server instance, View Connection
Server also performs certificate revocation checking on the SAML 2.0 server certificate.
View supports various means of certificate revocation checking, such as certificate revocation lists (CRLs)
and the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP). A CRL is a list of revoked certificates published by the
CA that issued the certificates. OCSP is a certificate validation protocol that is used to get the revocation
status of an X.509 certificate.
With CRLs, the list of revoked certificates is downloaded from a certificate distribution point (DP) that is
often specified in the certificate. The View server periodically goes to the CRL DP URL specified in the
certificate, downloads the list, and checks it to determine whether the server certificate has been revoked.
With OCSP, the View server sends a request to an OCSP responder to determine the revocation status of the
certificate.
When you obtain a server certificate from a third-party certificate authority (CA), the certificate includes one
or more means by which its revocation status can be determined, including, for example, a CRL DP URL or
the URL for an OCSP responder. If you have your own CA and generate a certificate but do not include
revocation information in the certificate, the certificate revocation check fails. An example of revocation
information for such a certificate could include, for example, a URL to a Web-based CRL DP on a server
where you host a CRL.
If you have your own CA but do not or cannot include certificate revocation information in your certificate,
you can choose not to check certificates for revocation or to check only certain certificates in a chain. On the
View server, with the Windows Registry Editor, you can create the string (REG_SZ) value
CertificateRevocationCheckType, under HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Security, and set this
value to one of the following data values.
Value Description
1 Do not perform certificate revocation checking.
2 Check only the server certificate. Do not check any other certificates in the chain.
3 Check all certificates in the chain.
4 (Default) Check all certificates except the root certificate.
If this registry value is not set, or if the value set is not valid (that is, if the value is not 1, 2, 3, or 4), all
certificates are checked except the root certificate. Set this registry value on each View server on which you
intend to modify revocation checking. You do not have to restart the system after you set this value.
NOTE If your organization uses proxy settings for Internet access, you might have to configure your View
Connection Server computers to use the proxy settings to ensure that certificate revocation checking can be
performed for security servers or View Connection Server instances that are used for secure View Client
connections. If a View Connection Server instance cannot access the Internet, certificate revocation checking
might fail, and the View Connection Server instance or paired security servers might show up as red on the
View Administrator dashboard. To resolve this issue, see "Troubleshooting Security Server Certificate
Revocation Checking" in the VMware Horizon View Administration document.
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