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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
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OfflineDesktopoffersmobileuserstheabilitytocheckoutaclonedinstanceofcertain
typesofViewManagerdesktopontoalocalsystemsuchasalaptop.Oncecheckedout,
thelocalcopybehaveslikeastandalonedesktopsystemandcanbeusedwithor
withoutanetworkconnection;thedes
ktopisnowconsideredtobe“offline.”
ThefollowingsectionsprovideanoverviewofOfflineDesktop,itspurposeand
implementation.
Thischapterdiscussesthefollowingtopics:
“OverviewofOfflineDesktop”onpage 123
“ViewClientwithOfflineDesktop”onpage 129
“OfflineDesktopStatus”onpage 131
Overview of Offline Desktop
OfflineDesktopaddressesthechallengeofcontinuousaccessthatisimplicitinany
onlinedesktopsolution:throughcircumstanceorchoice,usersoccasionallyfind
themselvesinenvironmentswherenetworkavailabilityisextremelylimitedor
completelyabsent.
Offline Desktop
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NOTEOfflineDesktopisanexperimentalfeature.Pleasereferto“System
Requirements”onpage 14formoreinformationaboutexperimentalfeatures.
N
OTEForinformationaboutusagepoliciesthatrelatespecificallytoofflineclient
sessions,referto“ClientPolicies”onpage 139.