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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
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If you plan to install View Client with Local Mode, verify that none of the following products is installed:
VMware View Client, VMware Player, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, VMware Server.
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Determine whether the person who uses the client device is allowed to access locally connected USB
devices from a virtual desktop. If not, you must deselect the USB Redirection component that the wizard
presents.
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If you plan to install the USB Redirection component, verify that the Windows Automatic Update feature
is not turned off on the client computer.
Procedure
1 Log in to the client system as a user with administrator privileges.
2 Open a browser and enter the URL of the View Connection Server instance that provides access to the
virtual desktop.
Internet Explorer can determine whether an upgrade is available, whereas Firefox and Safari cannot. Also,
in the list of installers, Internet Explorer lists 32-bit installers if the client has a 32-bit system and lists 64-
bit installers if the client has a 64-bit system, whereas Firefox lists both 32-bit and 64-bit installers.
3 Follow the prompts on the Web page.
If the version available from View Connection Server is newer than that installed on the client device, you
can choose to upgrade. If the version is the same as that on the client device, View Portal starts the View
Client installed on the client computer.
If you have an older version of View Client and a smart card is required for client connections, an Internet
Explorer browser prompts you to insert your smart card before View Portal checks the version of your
existing View Client.
4 If Internet Explorer prompts you to insert a smart card, either insert the card or click Cancel.
Inserting a smart card and Cancel have the same effect.
What to do next
Connect to the View desktop. See “Start the Windows-Based View Client or View Client with Local Mode,”
on page 96.
Set Printing Preferences for the Virtual Printer Feature on Windows
Clients
The virtual printing feature lets end users use local or network printers from a View desktop without requiring
that additional print drivers be installed in the View desktop. For each printer available through this feature,
you can set preferences for data compression, print quality, double-sided printing, color, and so on.
After a printer is added on the local Windows computer, View adds that printer to the list of available printers
on the View desktop. No further configuration is required. Users who have administrator privileges can still
install printer drivers on the View desktop without creating a conflict with the virtual printer component.
IMPORTANT This feature is not available for the following types of printers:
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USB printers that are using the USB redirection feature to connect to a virtual USB port in the View desktop
You must disconnect the USB printer from the View desktop in order to use the virtual printing feature
with it.
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The Windows feature for printing to a file
Selecting the Print to file check box in a Print dialog box does not work. Using a printer driver that creates
a file does work. For example, you can use a PDF writer to print to a PDF file.
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