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Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running 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 Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server 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
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
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View Portal
ActiveXcontrolsarerequiredforWindowsuserswhoaccesstheirdesktopsusing
View PortalonInternetExplorer 6orhigher.
BeforeconnectingtoaWindowsdesktopusingtheViewPortalonaLinuxsystem,you
mustinstallrdesktop 1.5.0.Youcandownloadrdesktopfromthefollowinglocation:
http://www.rdesktop.org
Afteryoudownloadrdesktop,followtheinstructions
inthereadmefile.
Operating System Support
ViewPortalisanexperimentalfeatureonMacOS/XandLinuxoperatingsystems.See
“SystemRequirements”onpage 14formoreinformationaboutexperimentalfeatures.
USB Support
InordertousetheUSBredirectionfeaturewithViewPortal,usersmustfirstinstall
ViewClientontheirlocalsystem.Referto“InstallingandRunningViewClientand
ViewPortal”onpage 94formoreinformationaboutthis.
Windows2000doesnotsupportUSBredirection.
Virtual Printing
ViewPortaldoesnotsupportVirtualPrinting.
View Composer
TheViewComposerfeaturerequiresaVMwarevirtualizationenvironment:
VMwarevSphere4Update1
VMwareInfrastructure 3.5Update3orUpdate4.VMwareInfrastructure 3.5
Update5isnotsupported.
Youcandeployalinked‐clonedesktoppoolonaclusterthatcontainsESX/ESXi4hosts
mixedwithESX/ESXi3.5hosts,untilyousetvSpheremode.
TheView Composerfeatureissupportedonthefollowing32‐bitplatforms:
WindowsServer2003ServicePack2orhigher
WindowsXPProfessionalServicePack2orhigher
N
OTEYoucannotusetheViewComposerfeatureofViewManagertodeploydesktops
thatrunWindowsVistaUltimateEditionorWindowsXPProfessionalSP1.