VMware Horizon View - 6.0 Administrator’s Guide

View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In

Administration

VMware Horizon 6.0

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Contents

View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Administration 5

Installing View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In 7

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View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In System Requirements 7

Install View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In 7

Install View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Silently 8

View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Advanced Configuration 9

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View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Configuration Settings 9

Disabling Weak Ciphers in SSL/TLS 11

Replacing the Default Self-Signed SSL Server Certificate 13

Authorizing Horizon Client to Access Desktops and Applications 13

Using Network Address Translation and Port Mapping 13

Setting Up HTML Access 17

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Install View Agent for HTML Access 17

Set Up Static Content Delivery 18

Set Up Trusted CA-Signed SSL Server Certificate 19

Setting Up View Agent Direct Connection on Remote Desktop Services Hosts 21

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Remote Desktop Services Hosts 21

Entitle RDS Desktops and Applications 21

Troubleshooting View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In 23

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Incorrect Graphics Driver is Installed 23

Insufficient Video RAM 23

Enabling Full Logging to Include TRACE and DEBUG information 24

Index 25

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View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Administration

View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Administration provides information about installing and configuring
View Agent Direct-Connection Plugin. This plug-in is an installable extension to View Agent that allows
Horizon Client to directly connect to a virtual machine-based desktop, a Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
desktop, or an application without using View Connection Server. All the desktop and application features
work in the same way as when the user connects through View Connection Server.

Intended Audience

This information is intended for an administrator who wants to install, upgrade or configure View Agent
Direct-Connection Plug-In in a virtual machine-based desktop or an RDS host. This guide is written for
experienced Windows system administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and
datacenter operations.

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Installing View Agent Direct-

Connection Plug-In 1

View Agent Direct-Connection (VADC) Plug-In enables Horizon Clients to directly connect to virtual
machine-based desktops, RDS desktops, or applications. VADC Plug-In is an extension to View Agent and
is installed on virtual machine-based desktops or RDS hosts.

This chapter includes the following topics:

“View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In System Requirements,” on page 7

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“Install View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In,” on page 7

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“Install View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Silently,” on page 8

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View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In System Requirements

View Agent Direct-Connection (VADC) Plug-In is installed on machines where View Agent is already
installed. For a list of operating systems that View Agent supports, see "Supported Operating Systems for
View Agent" in the View Installation document.

VADC Plug-In has the following additional requirements:

The virtual or physical machine that has VADC Plug-In installed must have a minimum of 128 MB of

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video RAM for PCoIP to function properly.

You must install VMware Tools before you install View Agent.

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NOTE A virtual machine-based desktop that supports VADC can be joined to a Microsoft Active Directory
domain, or it can be a member of a workgroup.

Install View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In

View Agent Direct-Connection (VADC) Plug-In is packaged in a Windows Installer file that you can
download from the VMware Web site and install.

Prerequisites

Verify that View Agent is installed.

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Procedure

1 Download the VADC Plug-In installer file from the VMware product page at

http://www.vmware.com/products/.

The installer filename is VMware-viewagent-direct-connection-x86_64-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe for 64-bit
Windows or VMware-viewagent-direct-connection--y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe for 32-bit Windows, where y.y.y
is the version number and xxxxxx is the build number.

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2 Double-click the installer file.

3 (Optional) Change the TCP port number.

The default port number is 443.

4 (Optional) Choose how to configure the Windows Firewall service.

By default, Configure Windows Firewall automatically is selected and the installer configures
Windows Firewall to allow the required network connections.

5 Follow the prompts and finish the installation.

Install View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In Silently

You can use the silent installation feature of Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) to install View Agent Direct­Connection (VADC) Plug-In. In a silent installation, you use the command line and do not have to respond
to wizard prompts.

With silent installation, you can efficiently deploy VADC Plug-In in a large enterprise. For more information
on Windows Installer, see "Microsoft Windows Installer Command-Line Options" in the Setting Up Desktop
and Application Pools in VMware Horizon View document. VADC Plug-In supports the following MSI
properties.

Table 1‑1. MSI Properties for the Silent Installation of View Agent Direct-Connection Plug-In

MSI Property Description Default Value

LISTENPORT The TCP port that VADC Plug-In uses to accept remote connections. By

default, the installer will configure Windows Firewall to allow traffic on the
port.

MODIFYFIREWALL If set to 1, the installer will configure Windows Firewall to allow traffic on

LISTENPORT. If set to 0, the installer will not.

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Prerequisites

Verify that View Agent is installed.

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Procedure

1 Open a Windows command prompt.

2 Run the VADC Plug-In installer file with command-line options to specify a silent installation. You can

optionally specify additional MSI properties.

This example installs VADC Plug-In with default options.

VMware-viewagent-direct-connection--y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s

This example installs VADC Plug-In and specifies a TCP port that vadc will listen to for remote
connections.

VMware-viewagent-direct-connection--y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn LISTENPORT=9999"

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