Problem: When you try to login to your desktop via the HTML5 GUI, you receive the following error: To do enable the rules, remote to your security server, open up your firewall (in my example, Windows Firewall with Advanced Security), and enable the VMware View Connection Server (Blast-In) rules. Last, you need to open port 8443 (or whatever External Blast URL port number you used) on your security server (when installing the Security Server, by default the rules are added to Windows Firewall but are not enabled). Next, still inside of the VMware Horizon View Administrator web GUI, I navigated to Pools, selected the Pool I wanted to allow HTML5 Web Access to, hit Edit., selected the Pools Settings tab, and checked HTML Access.
Right click on the connection server and ensure the Blast Server URL has been configured properly. Next, I opened up the VMware Horizon View Administrator web GUI and navigated to View Configuration -> Servers -> Connection Servers.
Next, I downloaded the Remote Experience Agent for 64-bit desktops ( VMware-Horizon-View-5.2-Remote-Experience-Agent-圆) file ( Same download portal as mentioned above) and installed that on the client machines I wanted to be accessible via the HTML5 page. This can be installed while the Connection server is running, no downtime neccessary. Once downloaded, I installed this on my Connection Servers. All of these can be obtained from the "My VMware" center.įirst, I navigated to the VMware Horizon View 5.2 Feature Pack downloads and downloaded the VMware-Horizon-View-HTML-Access_圆4-1.0.0-1049726.exe ( Click here to go to the VMware download portal).
In order to enable this feature, you must download the VMware Horizon View Feature Pack on the connection server as well as install the Remote Experience Agent with the HTML Access component on the virtual desktops. Turns out that VMware View 5.2 itself doesn't contain the HTML5 interface to control your desktop through the browser. All went well, but when I browsed out to our security server, I noticed that the web client did not exist. Today I tried upgrading VMware's View Connection and Security servers from 5.1 to 5.2.