Administration

The password must contain between 1 and 128 characters. Follow your organization's best practices for
generating secure passwords.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select View Configuration > Global Settings.
2 In the Security pane, click Change data recovery password.
3 Type and retype the new password.
4 (Optional) Type a password reminder.
NOTE You can also change the data recovery password when you schedule your View configuration data to
be backed up. See “Schedule View Configuration Backups,” on page 90.
What to do next
When you use the vdmimport utility to restore a backup View configuration, provide the new password.
Global Settings for Client Sessions
General global settings determine session timeout lengths, SSO enablement and timeout limits, status
updates in View Administrator, whether prelogin and warning messages are displayed, and whether View
Administrator treats Windows Server as a supported operating system for remote desktops.
Changes to any of the settings in the table below take effect immediately. You do not need to restart View
Connection Server or Horizon Client.
Table 2‑2. General Global Settings for Client Sessions
Setting Description
View Administrator session
timeout
Determines how long an idle View Administrator session continues before the
session times out.
IMPORTANT Setting the View Administrator session timeout to a high number of
minutes increases the risk of unauthorized use of View Administrator. Use
caution when you allow an idle session to persist a long time.
By default, the View Administrator session timeout is 30 minutes. You can set a
session timeout from 1 to 4320 minutes (72 hours).
Forcibly disconnect users Disconnects all desktops and applications after the specified number of minutes
has passed since the user logged in to View. All desktops and applications will be
disconnected at the same time regardless of when the user opened them.
For clients that do not support application remoting, a maximum timeout value
of 1200 minutes applies if the value of this setting is Never or greater than 1200
minutes.
The default is After 600 minutes.
Single sign-on (SSO) If SSO is enabled, View caches a user's credentials so that the user can launch
remote desktops or applications without having to provide credentials to log in
to the remote Windows session. The default is Enabled.
NOTE If a desktop is launched from Horizon Client, and the desktop is locked,
either by the user or by Windows based on a security policy, and if the desktop is
running View Agent 6.0 or later, View Connection Server discards the user's SSO
credentials. The user must provide login credentials to launch a new desktop or a
new application, or reconnect to any disconnected desktop or application. To
enable SSO again, the user must disconnect from View Connection Server or exit
Horizon Client, and reconnect to View Connection Server. However, if the
desktop is launched from Workspace Portal and the desktop is locked, SSO
credentials are not discarded.
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