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Familiarize yourself with the View Agent custom setup options. See “View Agent Custom Setup
Options,” on page 51.
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If you select the View Composer Agent custom setup option, verify that you have a license to use View
Composer.
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Familiarize yourself with the MSI installer command-line options. See “Microsoft Windows Installer
Command-Line Options,” on page 52.
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Familiarize yourself with the silent installation properties available with View Agent. See “Silent
Installation Properties for View Agent,” on page 54.
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Familiarize yourself with the TCP ports that the View Agent installation program opens on the firewall.
See the VMware View Architecture Planning document for more information.
Procedure
1 Open a Windows command prompt on the virtual machine or physical PC.
2 Type the installation command on one line.
This example installs View Agent in a virtual machine that is managed by vCenter Server. The installer
configures the PCoIP, View Composer Agent, Virtual Printing, and USB redirection custom setup options.
VMware-viewagent-
y.y.y - xxxxxx .exe /s /v"/qn VDM_VC_MANAGED_AGENT=1
ADDLOCAL=Core,PCoIP,SVIAgent,ThinPrint,USB"
This example installs View Agent on an unmanaged computer and registers the desktop with the specified
View Connection Server, cs1.companydomain.com. The installer configures the SSO, Virtual Printing, and
USB redirection custom setup options.
VMware-viewagent-
y.y.y - xxxxxx .exe /s /v"/qn VDM_VC_MANAGED_AGENT=0
VDM_SERVER_NAME=cs1.companydomain.com VDM_SERVER_USERNAME=admin.companydomain.com
VDM_SERVER_PASSWORD=secret ADDLOCAL=Core,ThinPrint,USB"
The VMware View Agent service is started on the virtual machine.
If you selected the View Composer Agent option, the VMware View Composer Guest Agent Server service is
started on the virtual machine.
If Windows Media Player is not installed, the View Agent installation program does not install the multimedia
redirection (MMR) feature. If you install Windows Media Player after installing View Agent, you can install
the MMR feature by running the View Agent installation program again and selecting the Repair option.
What to do next
If the virtual machine has multiple NICs, configure the subnet that View Agent uses. See “Configure a Virtual
Machine with Multiple NICs for View Agent,” on page 56.
Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
To install View components silently, you must use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) command-line options
and properties. The View component installers are MSI programs and use standard MSI features.
For details about MSI, see the Microsoft Web site. For MSI command-line options, see the Microsoft Developer
Network (MSDN) Library Web site and search for MSI command-line options. To see MSI command-line usage,
you can open a command prompt on the View component computer and type msiexec /?.
To run a View component installer silently, you begin by disabling the bootstrap program that extracts the
installer into a temporary directory and starts an interactive installation.
At the command line, you must enter command-line options that control the installer's bootstrap program.
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