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5 Select one or more users from the list, click OK, and then click Next.
The Add Individual Policy dialog box appears.
6 Congure the View policies and click Finish to save your changes.
View Policies
You can congure View policies to aect all client sessions, or you can apply them to aect specic desktop
pools or users.
Table 7-1 describes each View policy seing.
Table 7‑1. View Policies
Policy Description
Multimedia redirection (MMR) Determines whether MMR is enabled for client systems.
MMR is a Windows Media Foundation lter that forwards multimedia data
from specic codecs on remote desktops directly through a TCP socket to the
client system. The data is then decoded directly on the client system, where it is
played.
The default value is Deny.
If client systems have insucient resources to handle local multimedia
decoding, leave the seing as Deny.
Multimedia Redirection (MMR) data is sent across the network without
application-based encryption and might contain sensitive data, depending on
the content being redirected. To ensure that this data cannot be monitored on
the network, use MMR only on a secure network.
USB Access Determines whether remote desktops can use USB devices connected to the
client system.
The default value is Allow. To prevent the use of external devices for security
reasons, change the seing to Deny.
PCoIP hardware acceleration Determines whether to enable hardware acceleration of the PCoIP display
protocol and species the acceleration priority that is assigned to the PCoIP
user session.
This seing has an eect only if a PCoIP hardware acceleration device is
present on the physical computer that hosts the remote desktop.
The default value is Allow at Medium priority.
Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files
View provides several component-specic Group Policy Administrative (ADM and ADMX) template les.
You can optimize and secure remote desktops and applications by adding the policy seings in these ADM
and ADMX template les to a new or existing GPO in Active Directory.
All ADM and ADMX les that provide group policy seings for View are available in a bundled .zip le
named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.x is the version and yyyyyyy is the
build number. You can download the le from the VMware download site at
hps://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the
VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the bundled .zip le.
The View ADM and ADMX template les contain both Computer Conguration and User Conguration
group policies.
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The Computer Conguration policies set policies that apply to all remote desktops, regardless of who
connects to the desktop.
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