Policies
Hello, I'm reading the 5.2 admin guide for View and under the policies section there is an excerpt that states "Lower-level policy settings can be more or less restrictive than the equivalent...
View ArticleOffice activation on Desktops
Hello, I'm curious what people are using to activate Windows and Office when using desktops that are part of a pool? Is a KMS server required. The reason I ask is because I tried activating Windows and...
View ArticleView 5.3 not powering on dedicated view desktops
I just recently upgraded to View 5.3 from View 5.1. Everything is green and working normally in my dashboard. Prior to my upgrade to 5.3, when a view user tried to connect to their desktop and it was...
View ArticleWindows 8 fails to to log into connection server
We're setting up View 5.2 and have two desktops for testing. One desktop is running Windows 7 SP1 and the other, Windows 8. The desktops are on different networks. When we try connect to the...
View ArticleMultiple AD Domain Access
We are a Windows 2k3/2k8 and VDI View 5.0.1 shop that recently took over a sister agency that has their own AD domain. We would like to configure our View environment to allow this new group to login...
View ArticleAntivirus on View Servers
HiWe are under pressure to install antivirus on our View servers. I have found some documentation on AV for the VDI clients but what about the View servers themselves? I'm trying to find some...
View Articlepcoip_server_win32.exe Real time proiority
Dears, Please advise me about priority of "pcoip_server_win32.exe" on Windows 7 32bit.The process will be affect on Windows 7 32bit when we are using Tera2 zero client and it's configured as real time...
View ArticleExternal Access Policy
Hi, I am currently doing a POC for VMware View to replace an existing Citrix infrastructure. The company has a policy where by when the system is accessed from outside the company network, no data can...
View ArticleRecompose issue
Trying to recompose some pools but need to do the ones that are not in use. When I start the recompose process I can see the cloning new machine in Vcenter then after that completes it just halts....
View ArticleBlank Screen for VDI VMs
I noticed that if I connect to my VDI VM via VMware View Client and I don't logoff but disconnect the session and try to connect back I get a blank screen.How can I avoid this ? I can set an option...
View ArticleOrphaned Linked clone pools after vCenter crash and replacement
Our physical vcenter server crashed over the weekend and I ended up building a new one on a VM. I've got mostly full clone desktop pools, but do have a couple of small linked clone pools. I have no...
View ArticleView 5.0 unable to communicate to 5.0 U1a vCenter - "The service is not...
This View instance has 4 connection brokers running on Windows Server 2008 R2: The environment was upgraded 2 years ago from view 4.6 to view 5.0. When View 4.6 was used there were 2 additional...
View ArticleGet-DesktopVM Slow
Hi I have 12 pools in View server. Enumerating the desktops using "Get-DesktopVM" for these pools seems very slow in a powershell script. I'm passing pool_id to Get-DesktopVM cmdlet as argument in a...
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Disconnecting from Desktop
Hello all, Is anyone aware of a way to close out the view client entirely when disconnecting from a desktop? Currently when disconnecting it still leaves the users available machines up. We have...
View ArticleBroker Desktop
Hi@all, does anybody nows of a Company that is using VMware Horizon View for Broker Desktops (Reuters, Bloomberg). Thanks in advanced Michael
View ArticleKeyboard and mouse input not being received to guest VM
Once again I'm here with my Evaluation, trying to figure out some bugs... First off - we're using an HP thin client - with the latest View client (5.4) via PCoIP. It's running Windows Embedded Standard...
View ArticleIs Unity option available with View Client?
Hi all, I just saw a demo of someone using VMware Fusion and it had an option called Unity view which displayed just a running application window from a Windows 7 vm in a MacOSX 10.9 operating system...
View ArticleView 5.1 Windows Client SSL Offload Issues
I am testing View 5.1 with a Security Server and Connection server setup. I have setup SSL Offload per the documentation - thumbprints in adam, locked.properties, certs are trusted, etc. Everything...
View ArticleDeploy Red Hat Linux Desktop using VMware Horizon View?
Hi VMware Experts, I hope you can clarify something for me. I would like to be able to create a Linux desktop Gold Image within Horizon, install my apps and then role this out to either ThinClients or...
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