Horizon Client Auto start at Windows login in the background

[Maarten_Caus]

Hi,

Is there a way to automaticly start the horizon client at computer start up in the background and login?

I want my RDSH published shortcuts to appear automaticly in the start menu without manually clicking the Horizon client the first time.

[KyranBrophy]

Hi Maarten_Caus,

You could drop a shortcut to the Horizon Client in the 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup' folder and modify the shortcut properties to run minimized.

To log in automatically, as long as its the same user who has logged in to Windows, set a default Connection URL and the 'Log in as current user' option using the vdm_client.admx Group Policy template.

Hope this helps.

[Maarten_Caus]

Hi Kyran,

Thank you for the quick respone.

That was the first thing I tried but the Horizon client doens't start minimized.

I also tried some commandline options to start the Horizon client minimized but without any luck.

Does it work in your environment like you suggested?

[aberto]

Hi,

Also trying to reach the same thing here. Had no chance to make it happen to open the Horizon client in the background. Ended up creating a VB Script in order to open Horizon, minimize the window and close Horizon after few seconds. It's not perfect since the user will see the Horizon window for a short period of time but it's working fine as a login script.

Here is the code:

Dim WshShell, strCommand, objHC
set WshShell = CreateObject("wscript.Shell")
strCommand = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\vmware-view.exe"
Set objHC = WshShell.Exec(strCommand)
' Wait until Horizon is ready to be minimized
wscript.sleep 2500
' Open the system menu and minimize the window...
WshShell.SendKeys "%+ n"
' Wait few seconds to let Horizon refresh the application shortcuts list in Start Menu
wscript.sleep 5000
' Kill the Horizon process
WshShell.Run "taskkill /im vmware-view.exe", 0, True
'Clean up and exit
Set objHC = Nothing
Set WshShell = Nothing
WScript.Quit

Would still be interested in a way of doing it completely hidden in background.

[Sn0r]

make it easier

Dim WshShell, strCommand, objHC 

set WshShell = CreateObject("wscript.Shell") 

strCommand = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\vmware-view.exe" 

Set objHC = WshShell.Exec(strCommand) 

' Wait few seconds to let Horizon refresh the application shortcuts list in Start Menu 

wscript.sleep 5000 

' Logoff Horizon Agent 

strCommand = "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\vmware-view.exe -shutdown" 

Set objHC = WshShell.Exec(strCommand)

'Clean up and exit 

Set objHC = Nothing 

Set WshShell = Nothing 

WScript.Quit