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Contents VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide 5 1 Setup and Installation 7 System Requirements for Mac Clients 7 System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video 8 Smart Card Authentication Requirements 8 Touch ID Authentication Requirements 10 Requirements for Using URL Content Redirection 10 Supported Desktop Operating Systems 11 Preparing Connection Server for Horizon Client 11 Install Horizon Client on Mac 12 Upgrade Horizon Client Online 13 Add Horizon Client to the Dock 13 Setti
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide Using a Touch Bar with Horizon Client 41 Autoconnect to a Remote Desktop 41 Configure Reconnect Behavior for Remote Applications 41 Removing a Server Shortcut From the Home Window 42 Reordering Shortcuts 42 4 Using a Microsoft Windows Desktop or Application on a Mac 43 Feature Support Matrix for Mac 43 Internationalization 46 Monitors and Screen Resolution 46 Select Specific Monitors in a Multiple-Monitor Setup 47 Using Exclusive Mode 47 Connect
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide This document, VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide, provides information about ® installing, configuring, and using VMware Horizon Client™ software on a Mac. This information is intended for administrators who need to set up a Horizon deployment that includes Mac client devices. The information is written for experienced system administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and datacenter operations.
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Setup and Installation 1 Setting up a Horizon deployment for Mac clients involves using certain Connection Server configuration settings, meeting the client and server system requirements, and downloading and installing Horizon Client for Mac from the VMware Web site.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide n macOS Sierra (10.12) n macOS High Sierra (10.13) Smart card authentication See “Smart Card Authentication Requirements,” on page 8. Touch ID authentication See “Touch ID Authentication Requirements,” on page 10. Connection Server, security server, and View Agent or Horizon Agent Latest maintenance release of Horizon 6 version 6.x and later releases.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation n A compatible smart card reader VMware tested the U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card (CAC) and U.S. Federal Government Personal Identity Verification (PIV), also called FIPS-201 smart cards. n Product-specific application drivers Users who authenticate with smart cards must have a smart card and each smart card must contain a user certificate.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide Touch ID Authentication Requirements To use Touch ID for user authentication in Horizon Client, you must meet certain requirements. Mac models Any Mac model that supports Touch ID, for example, MacBook Pro. Operating system requirements Add at least one fingerprint in the Touch ID setting. Connection Server requirements n Horizon 6 version 6.2 or a later release. n Enable biometric authentication in Connection Server.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation Supported Desktop Operating Systems A Horizon administrator creates virtual machines that have a guest operating system and installs agent software in the guest operating system. End users can log in to these virtual machines from a client device. For a list of the supported Windows guest operating systems, see the View Installation document. Some Linux guest operating systems are also supported if you have View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide To authenticate when the Domain drop-down menu is hidden, users must provide domain information by entering their user name in the format domain\username or username@domain in the User name text box.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation Upgrade Horizon Client Online You can configure Horizon Client to check for and install updates automatically each time it starts. You can also check for and install updates manually. If Horizon Client detects a new version, you can choose to download and install the new version, have Horizon Client remind you to install the new version the next time it starts, or skip the new version.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide n Is the certificate signed by an unknown or untrusted certificate authority (CA)? Self-signed certificates are one type of untrusted CA. To pass this check, the certificate's chain of trust must be rooted in the device's local certificate store.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation Configure Advanced TLS/SSL Options You can select the security protocols and cryptographic algorithms that are used to encrypt communications between Horizon Client and Horizon servers and between Horizon Client and the agent in the remote desktop. These security options are also used to encrypt the USB channel (communication between the USB plugin and the agent on the remote desktop). By default, TLSv1.0, TLSv1.1, and TLSv1.2 are enabled. SSL v2.0 and 3.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide Configure VMware Blast Options You can configure H.264 decoding and network condition options for remote desktop and application sessions that use the VMware Blast display protocol. You can configure H.264 decoding before or after you connect to a server. You can change the network condition to any type before you connect to a server. After you connect to a server, you can switch the network condition between Typical and Excellent.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation Horizon Client Data Collected by VMware If your company participates in the customer experience improvement program, VMware collects data from certain Horizon Client fields. Fields that contain sensitive information are anonymous. VMware collects data on client systems to prioritize hardware and software compatibility.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide Table 1‑2. Data Collected from Horizon Clients for the Customer Experience Improvement Program (Continued) Description Is This Field Made Anonymous ? Host operating system kernel No Example Value Examples include the following: Windows 6.1.7601 SP1 n Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sun Apr 8 21:52:26 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1878.11.10~1/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8945X n Darwin 11.4.2 n Linux 2.6.
Chapter 1 Setup and Installation Table 1‑2. Data Collected from Horizon Clients for the Customer Experience Improvement Program (Continued) Description Is This Field Made Anonymous ? USB device family No Example Value Examples include the following: Security n Human Interface Device n Imaging n USB device usage count VMware, Inc.
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Using URIs to Configure Horizon Client 2 Using uniform resource identifiers (URIs), you can create a Web page or an email with links that end users click to start Horizon Client, connect to a server, and open a specific desktop or application with specific configuration options. You can simplify the process of connecting to a remote desktop or application by creating Web or email links for end users.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide The only required element is the URI scheme, vmware-view. For some versions of some client operating systems, the scheme name is case-sensitive. Therefore, use vmware-view. Important In all parts, non-ASCII characters must first be encoded according to UTF-8 [STD63], and then each octet of the corresponding UTF-8 sequence must be percent-encoded to be represented as URI characters.
Chapter 2 Using URIs to Configure Horizon Client Table 2‑1. Values That Can Be Used With the action Query (Continued) args Value Description restart Shuts down and restarts the specified desktop. Restarting a remote desktop is the equivalent of the Windows operating system restart command. The operating system usually prompts the user to save any unsaved data before it restarts. logoff Logs the user out of the guest operating system in the remote desktop.
VMware Horizon Client for Mac Installation and Setup Guide domainName The NETBIOS domain name associated with the user who is connecting to the remote desktop or application. For example, you might use mycompany rather than mycompany.com. filePath Specifies the path to the file on the local system that you want to open with the remote application. You can use the full path or relative path, for example, ~/username/test%20file.txt.
Chapter 2 Using URIs to Configure Horizon Client Horizon Client starts and connects to the view.mycompany.com server. In the login box, the User name text box is populated with the name fred, and the Domain text box is populated with mycompany. The user must supply only a password. After a successful login, the client connects to the desktop whose display name is displayed as Finance Desktop, and the user is logged in to the guest operating system. 6 vmware-view://view.mycompany.
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