Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

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Serial port redirection is supported on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 client
systems and 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 8.x client systems.
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Any required serial port device drivers must be installed, and the serial
port must be operable, on the client computer. You do not need to install
the device drivers on the remote desktop operating system where View
Agent is installed.
Display protocol for
View
PCoIP
VMware Horizon serial port redirection is not supported in RDP desktop
sessions.
User Operation of Serial Port Redirection
Users can operate physical COM port devices that are connected to their client computers and use serial port
virtualization to connect the devices to their remote desktops, where the devices are accessible to 3rd party
applications.
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After the Serial Port Redirection option is installed with View Agent, a serial port tool tray icon ( ) is
added to the remote desktop.
The icon appears only if you use the required versions of View Agent and Horizon Client for Windows,
and you connect over PCoIP. The icon does not appear if you connect to a remote desktop from a Mac,
Linux, or mobile client.
You can use the icon to configure options to connect, disconnect, and customize the mapped COM
ports.
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When you click the serial port icon, the Serial COM Redirection for VMware Horizon menu appears.
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By default, the locally connected COM ports are mapped to corresponding COM ports on the remote
desktop. For example: COM1 mapped to COM3. The mapped ports are not connected by default.
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To use a mapped COM port, you must manually select the Connect option in the Serial COM
Redirection for VMware Horizon menu, or the Autoconnect option must be set during a previous
desktop session or by configuring a group policy setting. Autoconnect configures a mapped port to
connect automatically when a remote desktop session is started.
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When you select the Connect option, the redirected port is active. In the Device Manager in the guest
operating system on the remote desktop, the redirected port is shown as Serial Port Redirector for
VMware Horizon (COMn).
When the COM port is connected, you can open the port in a 3rd-party application, which can exchange
data with the COM port device that is connected to the client machine. While a port is open in an
application, you cannot disconnect the port in the Serial COM Redirection for VMware Horizon
menu.
Before you can disconnect the COM port, you must close the port in the application or close the
application. You can then select the Disconnect option to disconnect the port and make the physical
COM port available for use on the client machine.
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In the Serial COM Redirection for VMware Horizon menu, you can right-click a redirected port to
select the Port Properties command.
In the COM Properties dialog box, you can configure a port to connect automatically when a remote
desktop session is started, ignore the Data Set Ready (DSR) signal, and map the local port on the client
to a different COM port on the remote desktop by selecting a port in the Custom port name drop-down
list.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
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