Setting up Horizon Client involves installing the Horizon Client for Chrome app on client devices, configuring Connection Server, and opening the required ports.
System Requirements The device on which you use Horizon Client for Chrome must meet certain software requirements.
Smart Card Authentication Requirements Chromebooks that use a smart card for user authentication must meet certain requirements.
System Requirements for Geolocation Redirection Horizon Agent and Horizon Client , and the virtual desktop or RDS host and client machine on which you install the agent and client software, must meet certain requirements to support the Geolocation Redirection feature.
Requirements for Using URL Content Redirection With the URL Content Redirection feature, URL content can be redirected from the client machine to a remote desktop or published application (client-to-agent redirection), or from a remote desktop or published application to the client machine (agent-to-client redirection).
Configure Browser Redirection With Browser Redirection, when an end user opens a website in a Chrome or Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browser in a remote desktop, the web page is rendered on the client system instead of the agent system, and it is displayed as an overlay on the remote browser's viewport. The viewport is the portion of the browser window that contains the content of the web page.
Preparing Connection Server Before end users can connect to a server and access a remote desktop or published application, a Horizon administrator must install and configure Connection Server.
Install or Upgrade Horizon Client for Chrome Horizon Client for Chrome is a Chrome app, and you install it in the same way that you install other Chrome apps.
Using the Google Admin Console to Configure Enrolled Chromebook Devices You can use the Google Admin console to configure Connection Sever settings on enrolled Chromebook devices.
Configure HTML Access Agents to Use New TLS Certificates To comply with industry or security regulations, you can replace the default TLS certificates that the HTML Access Agent generates with certificates that a Certificate Authority (CA) signs.
Configure HTML Access Agents to Use Specific Cipher Suites You can configure the HTML Access Agent to use specific cipher suites instead of the default set of ciphers.
Using a CA-Signed Certificate with Unified Access Gateway If you use a Unified Access Gateway appliance, you must install a CA-signed certificate that has a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) configured.
Configure Horizon Client Data Sharing If a Horizon administrator has opted to participate in the VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), VMware collects and receives anonymous data from client systems through Connection Server. You can configure whether to share this client data with Connection Server.
Configure Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams in Horizon Client for Chrome This topic describes how to configure the Media Optimization for Microsoft Teams feature. This feature redirects media processing of audio calls, video calls, and desktop shares to be handled by the client machine instead of the agent machine.