Administrator Guide

• Cancel—You can end the PCoIP connection, and connect to the desktop in RDP again.
• Log Out and Reconnect—You can connect to the desktop through PCoIP, and the earlier session in RDP is logged out.
USB redirection RDS desktop through PCoIP/Blast—This feature is supported.
USB audio redirection—USB audio redirection enables you to use USB audio devices in the remote session. However, Dell does not
recommend that you enable the USB audio redirection because of sound quality.
Using unauthenticated access—You can anonymously log in to the VMware session with application remoting.
To use the unauthenticated option, do the following:
1. On your AD server, create two anonymous users, for example, anonymous1 and anonymous2.
2. Log in to your View Admin web portal.
3. Navigate to Users and Groups > Unauthenticated Access, and add the two new anonymous users to the View Connection
Manager.
4. Navigate to View Configurations > Select Servers > Connection Servers, and select your connection server.
5. Click Edit > Authentication tab, and select the Enabled for unauthenticated access check box. Do not select any users for the
default unauthenticated user.
6. Go to Application Pools, add a few applications that you have installed on the Virtual Machine, and entitle the applications to
anonymous1 and anonymous2 user.
7. On the ThinOS broker setup dialog box for VMware View, select the Log in anonymously using Unauthenticated Access check
box.
8. Restart your thin client.
9. Select the Always use this account check box to use the login account that you have specified. You cannot change this login
account for other users.
Hide Server URL—The server URL can be hidden in the Horizon View broker UI. You can configure this setting using any of the
following methods:
• Using View Connection Server web portal
1. Log into your View Connection Server web portal.
2. Navigate to View Configuration > Global Settings > Edit, select the Hide server information in client user interface check
box, and clear the Hide domain list in client user interface check box.
3. Click OK.
4. Log in to the VMware Horizon broker.
The server URL is hidden, and the domain list is displayed.
• Using INI parameter
Use the INI parameter, ConnectionBroker=vmware DisableShowServer=yes.
Hide Domain List—The domain list can be hidden in the Horizon View Broker logon UI. To configure this setting, do the following:
1. Log in to your View Connection Server web portal.
2. Navigate to View Configuration > Global Settings > Edit, select the Hide domain list in client user interface check box, and
clear the Hide server information in client user interface check box.
3. Click OK.
4. Log in to the VMware Horizon broker.
The domain list is hidden, and the server URL is displayed.
Enable username hint for smart card login
You can enable users to specify the account to be used in the Username hint field when you log in to a Horizon View session using a
smart card. Enabling this option allows you to use a single smart card certificate to authenticate to multiple user accounts.
To enable the username hint field, do the following:
1. Log in to the View Administrator Admin console, and click View Configuration > Servers.
2. On the Connection Servers tab, select the View Connection Server instance, and click Edit.
The Edit Connection Server settings page is displayed.
3. Click the Authentication tab.
4. In the View Authentication section, select the Allow smart card user hints check box.
You cannot configure the smart card user name hints feature when you set the smart card authentication to Not Allowed.
5. Click OK.
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Configuring the connection brokers