#VMWARE HORIZON CLIENT TIMEOUT WINDOWS#

Do not enable Bypass Session Timeout for a farm or application pool.ĭiscards SSO credentials after the specified number of minutes. If set to Never, VMware Horizon never disconnects applications or discards SSO credentials due to user inactivity. Users must not rely on this timeout to protect their desktops. Important: Users must be aware that when they have both applications and desktops open, and their applications are disconnected because of this timeout, their desktops remain connected. If users logged in to VMware Identity Manager without using AD credentials and do not know what AD credentials to enter, users can log out and log in to VMware Identity Manager again to access their remote desktops and applications. After SSO credentials are discarded, users are prompted for Active Directory credentials. This setting also applies to the True SSO feature. Users must log in again to reconnect to the applications that were disconnected or launch a new desktop or application. When idle session time out is reached, launching application requires re-authentication. Opened Horizon desktop sessions are not impacted and remain open. minutes, after the specified number of minutes without user activity Horizon Client terminates any opened Horizon application sessions. Protects sessions when there is no keyboard or mouse activity on the client device. The dashboard page of Horizon Console is also updated every few minutes.ĭisconnect Applications and Discard SSO credentials for Idle Users Workspace ONE or VMware Identity Manager and the desktop is locked, SSO credentials are not discarded.ĭetermines if status updates appear in the global status pane in the upper-left corner of Horizon Console every few minutes. Horizon Client, and reconnect to Connection Server. To enable SSO again, the user must disconnect from Connection Server or exit The user must provide login credentials to launch a new desktop or a new application, or reconnect to any disconnected desktop or application. Horizon Agent 7.0 or later, Connection Server discards the user's SSO credentials.

#VMWARE HORIZON CLIENT TIMEOUT WINDOWS#

Horizon Client, and the desktop is locked, either by the user or by Windows based on a security policy, and if the desktop is running With True SSO, if a user logs in using some other form of authentication than Active Directory credentials, the True SSO feature generates short-term certificates to use, rather than cached credentials, after users log in to VMware Identity Manager. If you plan to use the True SSO feature, introduced in VMware Horizon or later, SSO must be enabled. If SSO is enabled, VMware Horizon caches a user's credentials so that the user can launch remote desktops or applications without having to provide credentials to log in to the remote Windows session. The default message is Your virtual session is going to be logged off. Type the message to be displayed to warn the user that the session is being disconnected. For example, if the configured value is Before 1 minute, the warning is displayed 1 minute before the user is logged off. Set the time at which the forcibly disconnect warning is to be displayed. Please re-connect to the portal and restart the session. The default message is Your session has expired. Type the message to be displayed before the user is forcibly disconnected.

All desktops and applications will be disconnected at the same time regardless of when the user opened them.įor clients that do not support application remoting, a maximum timeout value of 1200 minutes applies if the value of this setting is Never or greater than 1200 minutes. In the My Preferences dialog box, enter a value for Connection Server Session Timeout Override.ĭisconnects all desktops and applications after the specified number of minutes has passed since the user logged in to VMware Horizon. To override the Connection Server Session Timeout value and configure your own user preference for how long an idle Horizon Console session times out, in the Horizon Console header, click Settings. You can set a minimum Connection Server session timeout of 2 minutes and a maximum Connection Server session timeout of 4320 minutes (72 hours). After 60 seconds, an error message appears informing you that the session has timed out and you need to log in again. If you click in the session before the countdown ends, the session continues. Use caution when you allow an idle session to persist a long time.īefore a session times out, a warning message appears with a 60 second countdown. Horizon Console session timeout to a high number of minutes increases the risk of unauthorized use of

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