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Table Of Contents
- VMware View Installation
- Contents
- VMware View Installation
- System Requirements for Server Components
- System Requirements for Client Components
- Supported Operating Systems for View Agent
- Supported Operating Systems for Windows-Based View Client and View Client with Local Mode
- Hardware Requirements for Local Mode Desktops
- Client Browser Requirements for View Portal
- Remote Display Protocol and Software Support
- Adobe Flash Requirements
- Smart Card Authentication Requirements
- Preparing Active Directory
- Configuring Domains and Trust Relationships
- Creating an OU for View Desktops
- Creating OUs and Groups for Kiosk Mode Client Accounts
- Creating Groups for View Users
- Creating a User Account for vCenter Server
- Create a User Account for View Composer
- Configure the Restricted Groups Policy
- Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Prepare Active Directory for Smart Card Authentication
- Installing View Composer
- Installing View Connection Server
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installation Prerequisites for View Connection Server
- Install View Connection Server with a New Configuration
- Install a Replicated Instance of View Connection Server
- Configure a Security Server Pairing Password
- Install a Security Server
- Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options
- Uninstalling View Products Silently by Using MSI Command-Line Options
- Configuring User Accounts for vCenter Server and View Composer
- Where to Use the vCenter Server User and Domain User for View Composer
- Configure a vCenter Server User for View Manager, View Composer, and Local Mode
- View Manager Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- View Composer Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Local Mode Privileges Required for the vCenter Server User
- Configuring View Connection Server for the First Time
- Configuring View Client Connections
- Sizing Windows Server Settings to Support Your Deployment
- Installing the View Connection Server Software
- Installing View Transfer Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Servers
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Connection Server and Security Server
- Configuring SSL Certificates for View Transfer Server
- Prepare an Existing Certificate in PKCS#12 Format for Use with View Transfer Server
- Obtain a Signed Certificate from a CA for Use with a View Transfer Server Instance
- Generate a Self-Signed Certificate for View Transfer Server
- Configure a View Transfer Server Instance to Use a Certificate
- Configure SSL for View Transfer Server Communications
- Configuring Certificate Checking in View Client for Windows
- Appendix: Additional SSL Configuration Tasks
- Creating an Event Database
- Installing and Starting View Client
- Index
Prerequisites
Verify that the Virtual Printing component of View Agent is installed on the View desktop. In the View desktop
file system, the drivers are located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VMware\Drivers\Virtual Printer.
Installing View Agent is one of the tasks required for preparing a virtual machine to be used as a View desktop.
For more information, see the VMware View Administration document.
Procedure
1 In the View desktop, click Start > Settings > Printers and Faxes.
2 In the Printers and Faxes window, right-click any of the locally available printers and select Properties.
On Windows 7 desktops, you might see only the default printer, even though other printers are available.
To see the other printers, right-click the default printer and point to Printer properties.
3 In the Print Properties window, click the ThinPrint Device Setup tab and specify which settings to use.
4 On the General tab, click Printing Preferences and edit the page and color settings.
5 On the Advanced tab, set preferences for double-sided printing and portrait (long edge) or landscape
(short edge) printing.
6 To preview each printout on the host, enable Preview on client before printing.
From this preview, you can use any printer with all its available properties.
7 On the Adjustment tab, review the settings for automatic print adjustment.
VMware recommend that you retain the default settings.
8 Click OK.
Using USB Printers
In a View environment, virtual printers and redirected USB printers can work together without conflict.
A USB printer is a printer that is attached to a USB port on the local client system. To send print jobs to a USB
printer, you can either use the USB redirection feature or use the virtual printing feature.
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You can use the USB redirection feature to attach a USB printer to a virtual USB port in the View desktop
as long as the required drivers are also installed on the View desktop.
If you use this redirection feature the printer is no longer attached to the physical USB port on the client
and this is why the USB printer does not appear in the list of local printers that the virtual printing feature
displays. This also means that you can print to the USB printer from the View desktop but not from the
local client machine.
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On Windows clients, you can alternatively use the virtual printing feature to send print jobs to a USB
printer. If you use the virtual printing feature you can print to the USB printer from both the View desktop
and the local client, and you do not need to install print drivers on the View desktop.
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