The procedure used to deploy a Horizon Access Point can be broken down into the following stages:
Infrastructure preparation as outlined in the previous section of this chapter
Using the Horizon Administrator console to reconfigure the Connection Server client settings
Using the VMware OVF Tools to deploy the Access Point appliances
A Horizon Access Point provides secure gateway and tunneling capabilities for external client connections. In order for external Horizon client connections to connect to their destination desktops and Windows RDS servers on the internal network, it is necessary to disable these features on each of the Connection Servers used with our Access Point appliances.
The following steps outline how to disable the tunneling and gateway features on our Connection Servers:
Log on to the Horizon Administrator console using an AD account that has administrative permissions within Horizon.
Open the View Configuration...