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Table Of Contents
- View Manager 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
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Device Information
- Enabling HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing VirtualCenter for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- locked.properties
- Glossary
- Index
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OfflineDesktopoffersmobileuserstheabilitytocheckoutaclonedinstanceofcertain
typesofViewManagerdesktopontoalocalsystemsuchasalaptop.Oncecheckedout,
thelocalcopybehaveslikeastandalonedesktopsystemandcanbeusedwithor
withoutanetworkconnection;the
desktopisnowconsideredtobe“offline.”
ThefollowingsectionsprovideanoverviewofOfflineDesktop,itspurposeand
implementation.
Thischapterdiscussesthefollowingtopics:
“OverviewofOfflineDesktop”onpage 155
“ViewClientwithOfflineDesktop”onpage 161
“OfflineDesktopStatus”onpage 163
Overview of Offline Desktop
OfflineDesktopaddressesthechallengeofcontinuousaccessthatisimplicitinany
onlinedesktopsolution:throughcircumstanceorchoice,usersoccasionallyfind
themselvesinenvironmentswherenetworkavailabilityisextremelylimitedor
completelyabsent.
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NOTEOfflineDesktopisanexperimentalfeature.Referto“SystemRequirements”on
page 14formoreinformationaboutexperimentalfeatures.
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OTEForinformationaboutusagepoliciesthatrelatespecificallytoofflineclient
sessions,referto“ClientPolicies”onpage 171.