The Horizon View Portal page for the connection server has changed throughout the different versions. This article describes how to modify the behavior of the portal for version 5.x or 6.x when you have installed the HTML Access feature. When you don't have that additional feature installed then you have the 'default' portal. How to modify the text and download links for the regular portal is described in this document: Using VMware Horizon View Client for Windows.
When you connect to your Connection Server or Security Server the portal normally looks like this: (The HTML-part is available only if you have installed the HTML-access component).
You can modify the behavior of the portal in several ways::
- Disable the entire page
- Enable/disable or customize the client download link
- Enable/disable the HTML Access feature
For version 5.2 and 5.3: This can be done by modifying a file named portal-links.properties. It can be found on your connection server in this directory:
C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware View\Server\broker\webapps\portal\WEB-INF\classes
For version 6.x: This can be done by modifying a file named portal-links-html-access.properties. It can be found on you connection server in this directory: CommonAppDataFolder\VMware\VDM\portal\ (C:\ProgramData\VMware\VDM\portal).
Note: If you access your portal through a Security Server then you still need to modify these settings on the Connection Server. The Security Server does not have it's own portal files.
In the following image you see can see the default contents of the file.
After making changes to this file you must restart the VMware View Web Component-Windows-service. If your portal does not respond immediately after restarting then give it a minute to reinitialize.
If you set both values to false then the portal will become unaccessible.
You can also set one of the two values to false. If you set enable.download=false then when accessing the portal web page clients are immediately redirected to the HTML Access login page.
If you set enable.webclient=false and configure a custom link to your own web page then clients connection to your portal will be redirected to that URL.
Tip: When you disable the web client page through this file the actual HTML Access is not disabled. Clients can still access the HTML Access login page directly by accessing the URL: https://yourserver/portal/webclient/views/mainUI.html
A last note on all of this: if you upgrade to a new version of Horizon View there is a fair chance that this will be overwritten. So make sure to create a backup of these modified files and check what happens during the upgrade before you upgrade your production environment.