Installation guide

Upgrade Offline Desktop Clients to View Client with Local Mode
Offline Desktop was an experimental feature of VMware View 3.1.x and 4.0.x, but you can upgrade to the fully
supported View Client with Local Mode available with View 4.5.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have either a local user account with administrative privileges or a domain user account
with administrative privileges on hosts that you will use to run the installer and perform the upgrade.
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Verify that client computers have a supported operating system and can accommodate the View desktop
that end users plan to download and run locally. See “Supported Operating Systems for View Client and
View Client with Local Mode,” on page 14.
Procedure
1 Have end users check in their View 3.1.x or 4.0.x offline desktops.
2 Have end users delete the folder that contains the files that make up their offline desktops.
Desktop Operating System Check-out Directory
Default directory on Windows 7 and
Windows Vista
C:\Users\ User Name \AppData\Local\VMware\VDM\Offline Desktops
\ pool_display_name
Default directory on Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\ User Name \Local Settings
\Application Data\VMware\VDM\Offline Desktops
\ pool_display_name
3 Upgrade all components that need to be upgraded.
These components might include View Connection Server, View Composer, vCenter Server, ESX hosts,
virtual machines, VMware Tools in virtual machines, and View Agent in virtual machines.
4 Install and configure a View Transfer Server instance, as described in the VMware View 4.5 Installation
Guide.
As of VMware View 4.5, the View Transfer Server component transfers data between local client devices
and the datacenter during check in, check out, replication, and system-image provisioning operations.
5 Have end users upgrade to View Client with Local Mode.
Client Type Action
Native client
Download and send the View 4.5 Client with Local Mode to your end users
or post it on a Web site and ask end users to download the installer and run
it.
View Portal
Let your end users know that the next time they connect to the View Portal,
they will be prompted to download and run the new client installer. Direct
them to choose the View Client with Local Mode installer.
For the native client, you can download the View Client Local Mode installer from the VMware Web site.
6 Have end users verify that they can log in and connect to their upgraded View desktops.
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