View Agent

View Agent is a component that is installed on the target desktop, either physical (seldom) or virtual (almost always). View Agent allows the View Connection Server to establish a connection to the desktop. The Remote Experience Agent is integrated with the View Agent. Before this release, the Remote Experience Agent, which contains HTML Access, Unity Touch, Real-Time Audio-Video, and Windows 7 Multimedia Redirection, needed a separate installation. View Agent also provides the following capabilities:

  • USB redirection: This is defined as making a USB device, which is connected locally appear to be connected to vDesktop
  • Single Sign-On (SSO): This is done by using intelligent credential handling that requires only one secured and successful ...

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