Key Features

Horizon Client for Mac OS X makes it easy to access your Windows-based remote desktop or application from your Mac with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

Support for Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10), and Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) - Use a 64-bit Intel-based Mac to work on your Windows-based remote desktop or application.
Unmatched performance - The adaptive capabilities of the PCoIP display protocol are optimized to deliver the best user experience, even over low-bandwidth and high-latency connections. Your remote desktop or application is fast and responsive regardless of where you are.
Simple connectivity - Horizon Client for Mac OS X is tightly integrated with View for simple setup and connectivity. Quickly reconnect to your remote desktop or application by selecting from up to eight View server shortcuts in Horizon Client.
Secure from any location - At your desk or away from the office, your data is delivered securely to you wherever you are. Enhanced certificate checking is performed on the client. Horizon Client for Mac OS X also supports optional RADIUS and RSA SecurID authentication. (RADIUS support was added with VMware View 5.1 and Horizon Client for Mac OS X 1.5 or later.)

Features Supported on Windows Desktops for Mac OS X Clients

Horizon Client Feature	Supported in Horizon Client for Mac OS X
RSA SecurID	X
Single sign-on	X
PCoIP display protocol	X
RDP display protocol	X
USB access	X
Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV)	X
Wyse Multimedia Redirection
Windows 7 Multimedia Redirection
Virtual printing	X
Location-based printing	X
Smart cards	X
Multiple monitors	X

Notes:

You can use Horizon Client for Mac OS X to securely access remote Windows-based applications, in addition to remote desktops.
You can use remote Windows-based applications only if you are connected to a VMware Horizon 6.0 with View or later server.

What's New in This Release

The 3.4 release of Horizon Client for Mac OS X includes the following new features:

Smart cards for logging in to RDS desktops and hosted applications
Users can now authenticate to RDS-based desktops and RDS-based applications using smart cards. Requires View Agent 6.1 or later.
USB redirection of mass storage devices on RDS desktops and hosted applications
Users can plug their USB flash drives and hard disks into their client systems and have these devices redirected to RDS-hosted desktops and applications. USB redirection of other types of USB devices, and other types of USB storage devices, such as security storage drives and USB CD-ROM, is not supported. This feature is supported on Windows Server 2012 RDS hosts. Requires View Agent 6.1 or later.
Support discontinued for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.7 as client operating systems
Horizon Client for Mac OS X 3.4 must be installed on Mac OS X 10.8, 10.9, or 10.10. For more information, see Retiring Old OSes: XP, Vista, Mac OS X 10.6 & 10.7.
Client drive redirection (Tech Preview)
Users can now share folders and drives on their Mac client systems with remote desktops and applications. This feature is called client drive redirection. Requires View Agent 6.1.1 or later.
Using a local IME with remote applications
Users can now use an IME (input method editor) installed on their Mac client systems to send non-English characters to remote applications.
Linux remote desktops
Administrators can set up a Linux virtual machine as a remote desktop. End users can log in to a Linux remote desktop from Horizon Client for Mac OS X. Requires View Agent 6.1.1 or later and Horizon Client for Mac OS X 3.4. Not all features are supported in this release. For more information, see Setting Up Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops.
OpenSSL 1.0.1m support
The OpenSSL library is updated to version openssl-1.0.1m.

Internationalization

The user interface and documentation for Horizon Client are available in English, Japanese, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Korean.

Before You Begin

Horizon Client requires a Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10), or Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) operating system running on a 64-bit Intel-based Mac.
You must install Horizon Client on Mac OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) or later to use remote applications. Remote applications do no not appear in Horizon Client if the client system is running an earlier verion of OS X. Remote applications are available only on Horizon 6.0 View servers.
Horizon Client is supported with the latest maintenance release of VMware View 5.3.x and later releases.
To install Horizon Client for Mac OS X, download the disk image file from the VMware Horizon Client download page. For system requirements and installation instructions, see Using VMware Horizon Client for Mac OS X.

Resolved Issues

Resolved in Horizon Client 3.4.1

The following issues were resolved in this version of Horizon Client for Mac OS X:

When you connected to a remote desktop from a Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11) client system, the entire desktop window was black. This issue has been resolved.
You could not use the USB redirection feature to redirect a USB storage device from an OS X El Capitan (10.11) client system to a remote desktop. This issue has been resolved.

Resolved in Horizon Client 3.4

No issues were resolved in this version of Horizon Client for Mac OS X.

Resolved in Horizon Client 3.2

The following issues were resolved in this version of Horizon Client for Mac OS X:

When you used the virtual printing feature and changed any printer settings or printing preferences, such as, for example, DPI or double-sided printing, the printer settings did not persist after you disconnected or logged off from a remote desktop. This issue has been resolved.

Resolved in Horizon Client 3.1

The following issues were resolved in this version of Horizon Client for Mac OS X:

Virtual printing was not supported for RDS (Remote Desktop Sessions) desktops or single-session Windows Server 2008 R2 desktops. This issue has been resolved.
If you were connected to a remote application and you pressed Fn+control+option+del on your Mac keyboard, the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen of the Windows server that hosts the remote application appeared. You could click the Cancel button on the Window server screen to return to the remote application. However, if you pressed Fn+control+option+del in the remote application a second time, you could not click into the Windows server screen and return to the remote application. This issue has been resolved.
Remote applications that depend on user interaction with the System Tray could not be shut down. For example, if you opened Skype as a remote application, the only way to close the window was to quit Horizon Client. This issue has been resolved.

Resolved in Horizon Client 3.0

The following issues were resolved in this version of Horizon Client for Mac OS X:

Previously, for a Mac with OS X Mavericks (10.9), you had to open System Pref

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