Notice: Adobe Flash End of Life will affect versions of Horizon earlier than 7.10 - Please Read

[chrisdhalstead]

Please read this blog if you are running VMware Horizon less than version 7.10.  
The Adobe Flash End of Life on 12/31/20 will affect you and your choices are:

• Upgrade to 7.10 or later (preferably 7.13)
• Pay Adobe for Extended Support of Flash
• Use PowerCLI - Build Scripts to Manage Horizon - Example:  https://code.vmware.com/samples/7475/horizon-7.x-security-server-management

Blog: https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/11/adobe-flash-player-end-of-life-vmware-horizon.html

Thanks,

Chris

[Super6VCA]

I found this out drectly myself without warning. On version 7.7 waiting on new hardware.  Now i can't recompose.  Any work-a-rounds for that??  

[sjesse]

just download firefox and older version flash if you can't upgrade immediately, if you isolate the vm  with firewall rules should limit any security risk.

[a_p_]

See whether https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/78589 is an option for you.

André

[novell1]

Hi, I did install a new VM temporarly until all is updated to Horizon8. The new VM is not member of a domain (workgroup) it is working with Firefox V70 portable without dns entry's.  With that, it is save and the hole administration with View 7.x is working with flash fine.

[DaIceMan]

I was running 7.10 and when upgrading to 7.13 I found that there is still no way to set a pairing password for the Security Server in the HTML5 interface. I worked around this by using a Windows 7 machine and rolled back the date 1 year for Flash to work using the "good old" flex interface. I didn't find this script until digging further on the issue. However, is this by design/wanted? It seems that this option has been left out in the HTML5 version also in version 7.13.

[chrisdhalstead]

Yeah it is by design.  There are no plans to port security server management into the HTML5 console.  That’s why I wrote the script to allow management of security servers with a GUI and to set the pairing password.  Everyone should really be moving to UAG.

[MaxStr]

I noticed that there is one issue (possibly a bug), but it's been in the HTML client since the first version, and I'm on 7.13. If I rename a snapshot in vCenter, and Horizon is currently using that snapshot as the default image in a pool, Horizon will not allow me to change the snapshot. I just get a blank box under "Parent Image" and the browse button doesn't do anything. 

When I had this happen before, I had to launch the Flex console, edit the pool and click vcenter settings tab. Then it pops up an error message saying "Error occurred during vcenter operation". But once I click OK on that error, I'm able to select a different snapshot, and I can go back to the HTML console and it's back to normal.