Horizon View 5.3 Changes to Bit-level Office/Lync

[GemWDM]

Hi,

I know there are a lot of discussions about the mismatch between bit-levels for VMware Horizon View deployments in combination with Lync 2013

As far as i know the bit-level of the Lync client must match the OS bitness.

So for example:

On the VM: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit needs Office 2013 64 bit (including lync client)

but for my situation i want to use the Office 2013 32 bit.

Searching further on the internet and i found this:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=206426...

If i understand right, it looks like you don't have to use the 64 bit office (lync client) anymore when you're VM OS is 64 bit.

Do i understand?

I like to work to this "supported" situation:

VM:

Windows 7 SP1 64 bit

Office 2013 (including lync client) 32 bit

Horizon View agent 5.3 64 bit

Client:

10zig Thinclient Windows 8 embedded 32 bit

Lync VDI plugin 32 bit

Horizon view client (latest, 32 bit)

Looks like this is supported from 5.3 on?

[TonyHuynh201110 · Accepted solution]

You are correct.  With View 5.3, the Lync 2013 client bit-level does not have to match the bit-level of the VM OS. 

[GemWDM]

Great,

Right on time

That will solve an possible upcoming problem for us!

We will use the Office 2013 32 bit in combination with 64 bit win 7 sp1

Thanks for the confirmation!