VMware Horizon: Installing the VMware Horizon Client on Windows

It’s a breeze to install the VMware Horizon Client on your Windows workstation. In this short video we’ll show you how.

Posted on Mar 11, 2022 · Last updated on May 4, 2023

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Hey there, I’m John,

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and I’m the Content Strategist

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at ProSource.

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Today, we’re going to quickly walk through

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installing the VMware Horizon Client

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on Windows.

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This app is also compatible

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with Mac and mobile devices.

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If you have macOS,

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we’ll have a separate video for that.

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You can check the link in the description

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to find that video.

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For now, let’s just get started

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with installing the VMware Horizon Client

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on Windows.

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To get started,

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we’ll go to our connection server URL,

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which is view2fa.prosourcehosted.com

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And we’ll hit

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the ‘Install VMware Horizon Client’ link.

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And it’s going to take a couple of seconds

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for it to download here,

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so we’ll just stand by while it downloads.

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Once it’s downloaded,

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we’ll go ahead and open the file here.

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And it’s going to prompt me to install.

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I’m going to hit ‘Yes.’

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Here’s where we can make life

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a little easier for ourselves.

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If we hit ‘Customize Installation,’

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we can enter

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the default connection server URL.

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Companies can have

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their own customized ones, or —

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the default,

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which is view2fa.prosourcehosted.com —

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same (URL) to grab the installer.

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We’ll go ahead and ‘Agree & Install’ there

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So we’ll hit finish.

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And it’s going to ask us to restart.

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This is an important step,

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make sure you do that.

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I’m going to go ahead and do that,

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and I’ll be right back.

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So once we’ve restarted,

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I’ve opened the app here,

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and we have the default connection server

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that we entered in

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when we customized the installation.

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I’m going to go ahead and double-click

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and open it.

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And we’re prompted

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for a username and password

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and then you’ll log in like normal.

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To find out more

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about our cloud workspaces,

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get in touch with one

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of our friendly cloud experts.

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