Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 8 Component Policies
Client Policies
ThepropertiesprovidedunderthepoliciestabinViewAdministratorareusedtoassert
behavioralcontrolov erclientcomponentsattheglobal,desktoppool,ordesktopuser
level.Bydefault,eachuser‐levelpolicyinheritsitssettingfromapool‐levelpolicythat,
inturn,inheritsitssettingfromaglobal
policy.
Anumberofgeneralcomponentbehaviorsrelatingtodesktopsessionscanbe
configureddirectlyfromwithinViewAdministrator .Thesepoliciescanapplytoboth
ViewClientandViewClientwithOfflineDesktopandaredescribedinTable 8‐6.
Table 8-6. Client Policies
Property Description
USBAccess SpecifiesifdesktopscanuseUSBdevicesconnectedtotheclientsystem.
Administratorscanpreventuseofexternaldevicesasasecuritymeasure.
AvailableoptionsareAllowandDeny.Pool‐anduser‐levelpoliciesmayalso
Inheritthedefaultsettingfromtheirparent.
ThedefaultisAllow.
MMR Specifiesif
multimediaredirection(MMR)isenabledontheclient.MMRisa
MicrosoftDirectShowfilterthatforwardsmultimediadatafromspecificcodecs
ontheremotesystemdirectlythroughaTCPsockettotheclient.Thedatais
thendecodeddirectlyontheclient,whereitisplayed.
AdministratorscandisableMMR
iftheclienthasinsufficientresourcesto
handlelocalmultimediadecoding.
AvailableoptionsareAllowandDeny.Pool‐anduser‐levelpoliciesmayalso
Inherittheirdefaultsettingsfromtheirparent.
Note:MMRwillnotworkcorrectlyiftheclientvideodisplayhardwaredoesnot
haveoverlaysupport.MMRpolicydoes
notapplytoOfflineDesktopsessions.
ThedefaultisAllow.