Once the Connection Server is installed, we can access the Connection Server at https://<Server FQDN>. On this page, there are two options to access the Horizon environment.
- VMware Horizon HTML Access
- Install VMware Horizon Client
Let’s assume that a business user needs to install the native Horizon client on his windows system in order to access the VDI/apps. So here are few challenges that we may face.
- One of the challenge would be, if your infrastructure is configured for air gapped networks, your redirection request for user might not be completed successfully.
- Even if Internet connectivity is not a problem, another concern is, will user be able to make decision about correct version of horizon client and bits? Not every user is going to be tech savvy and this might lead to user confusion and frustration.
- Also, user might be connecting from remote location may be due to business travel and not in the office premise, so helping remote user in this situation will require some extra efforts.
So How do we handle this?
To overcome these challenges, as a Horizon administrators we will change the way how user gets the horizon client installer.
Basically an administrator can download the required version of the Horizon client as per infrastructure requirement and store it on the Connection Server for end users to download. So when user clicks on download client link as shown below.
For more details, check