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Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By : Jason Ventresco
Book Image

Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2

By: Jason Ventresco

Overview of this book

VMware Horizon View helps you simplify desktop and application management while increasing security and control. This book will introduce you to all of the components of the VMware Horizon View suite, walk you through their deployment, and show how they are used. We will also discuss how to assess your virtual desktop resource requirements, and build an optimized virtual desktop. "Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will provide you the information needed to deploy and administer your own end-user computing infrastructure. This includes not only the View components themselves, but key topics such as assessing virtual desktop resource needs, and how to optimize your virtual desktop master image. You will learn how to design and deploy a performant, flexible and powerful desktop virtualization solution using VMware Horizon View. You will implement important components and features, such as VMware View Connection Server, VMware View Composer, VMware View Transfer Server, and VMware View Security Server."Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2" will take you through application virtualization with VMware ThinApp, the implementation of Persona Management, and creation of Desktop Pools. We then cover View Client options, Desktop maintenance, and Virtual Desktop Master Image. Finally we discuss View SSL certificates management, Group Policies, PowerCLI, and VMware View Design and Maintenance to help you get the most out of VMware View.If you want to learn how to design, implement and administrate a complex, optimized desktop virtualization solution with VMware View, then this book is for you.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Implementing VMware Horizon View 5.2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Replacing the certificate on a View Transfer Server


Replacing the certificates on a View Transfer Server requires a certificate in the PFX format, which necessitates a different procedure when using AD Certificate Services certificate authority. The following items are needed to prepare a certificate in the CER format to be used with a View Transfer Server.

  • A computer with the open source OpenSSL software installed, which is available at www.openssl.org. OpenSSL is used to convert the certificate into the format needed by the Apache Web Server used with the View Transfer Server. In our example, OpenSSL was installed on a Windows computer.

  • A certificate with an exportable private key, which is not allowed with the default AD Certificate Services web server template. To use certificates issued by AD Certificate Services, review Microsoft Technet article cc725621 (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725621(v=ws.10).aspx) for instructions on how to create a new certificate template that...