3.0.1
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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Chapter 1 Introduction
Mac Operating System Support
ViewPortalisanexperimentalfeatureonMacOS.Pleasereferto“System
Requirements”onpage 14formoreinformationaboutexperimentalfeatures.
USB Support
InordertousetheUSBredirectionfeaturewithViewPortal,usersmustfirstinstall
ViewClientontheirlocalsystem.Referto“ViewClientandViewPortal”onpage 70
formoreinformationaboutthis.
Virtual Printing
ViewPortaldoesnotsupportvirtualprinting.
View Composer
VMwareInfrastructure3.5U3isrequiredinordertousetheViewComposerfeature,
andissupportedonthefollowing32‐bitplatforms:
WindowsServer2003ServicePack1
WindowsXPProfessionalServicePack2
SQL
ASQLdatabaseresidenton—oravailableto—theVirtualCenterserverisalsorequired
inordertostorelinkedcloneinformation.
Therequirementsforeachtypeofdatabasesupportedbythisfeatureareshownin
Table 1‐3.
N
OTEWindows2000doesnotsupportUSBredirection.
NOTEYoucannotusetheViewComposerfeatureofViewManagertodeploydesktops
thatrunWindowsVistaUltimateEditionorWindowsXPProfessionalSP1.
N
OTEIfoneisalreadypresentontheVirtualCenterserver,ViewComposercanuse
theexistingdatabase—forexample,theMicrosoftSQLServer2005Expressinstance
providedwithVirtualCenterbydefault.