When the virtual desktop application exits normally, all the data written to the disk is removed. The browser file/directory operation is redirected to a new location, and the data is encrypted before it is written to the local disk. The user starts the web browser from within the virtual desktop and connects to the SSL VPN web portal. When the application starts, it presents a ‘virtual desktop’ to the user. The virtual desktop application creates a virtual desktop on a user’s PC and monitors the data read/write activity of the web browser running inside the virtual desktop.The remote user must use the standalone tunnel client application. See the Release Notes for your FortiOS firmware for the specific operating system versions that are supported. If the client computer runs Linux or Mac OS X, the user needs to download the tunnel mode client application from the Fortinet Support web site. If the client computer runs Microsoft Windows, they can download the tunnel mode client from the web portal. Tunnel mode establishes a connection to the remote protected network that any application can use.Web mode requires nothing more than a web browser.For detailed information about supported browsers, see Web-only mode on page 2243.

The remote client connects to the SSL VPN tunnel in various ways, depending on the VPN configuration.

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