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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

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VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
VMware Horizon 6 Desktop Virtualization Solutions
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

PCoIP Secure Gateway


The PCoIP Secure Gateway (PSG) is a way to provide the ability to use PCoIP connections from outside the firewall. The connections to the View desktops use port 4172 through the server that is running the PCoIP Secure Gateway.

The PSG service identifies an SSL certificate to use with the help of a server name and the certificate Friendly name. You can set the Friendly name value in the Windows registry of the View Connection Server or View Security Server where the PSG service is running. When the PSG service discovers a certificate that has a Friendly name that equals the Friendly name value in the Windows registry, it then uses that certificate only after a sequence of tests are passed by the certificate. Also, all of the certificates in the trust chain must be installed on the certificate store of the Windows local computer. There were a few problems that have been resolved by the current release. The items related to this functionality that have been resolved are...