Configuring Remote Desktop Features
Table Of Contents
- Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
- Contents
- Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
- Configuring Remote Desktop Features
- Configuring Unity Touch
- Configuring Flash URL Redirection for Multicast or Unicast Streaming
- Configuring Flash Redirection
- Configuring Real-Time Audio-Video
- Configuration Choices for Real-Time Audio-Video
- System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video
- Ensuring That Real-Time Audio-Video Is Used Instead of USB Redirection
- Selecting Preferred Webcams and Microphones
- Select a Preferred Webcam or Microphone on a Windows Client System
- Select a Default Microphone on a Mac Client System
- Configuring Real-Time Audio-Video on a Mac Client
- Configure a Preferred Webcam or Microphone on a Mac Client System
- Select a Default Microphone on a Linux Client System
- Select a Preferred Webcam or Microphone on a Linux Client System
- Configuring Real-Time Audio-Video Group Policy Settings
- Real-Time Audio-Video Bandwidth
- Configuring Scanner Redirection
- Configuring Serial Port Redirection
- Managing Access to Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
- Managing Access to Client Drive Redirection
- Configure Skype for Business
- Configuring URL Content Redirection
- Understanding URL Content Redirection
- Requirements for URL Content Redirection
- Using URL Content Redirection in a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Installing Horizon Agent with the URL Content Redirection Feature
- Configuring Agent-to-Client Redirection
- Configuring Client-to-Agent Redirection
- Installing Horizon Client for Windows with the URL Content Redirection Feature
- Using the vdmutil Command-Line Utility
- Create a Local URL Content Redirection Setting
- Create a Global URL Content Redirection Setting
- Assign a URL Content Redirection Setting to a User or Group
- Test a URL Content Redirection Setting
- Managing URL Content Redirection Settings
- Using Group Policy Settings to Configure Client-to-Agent Redirection
- URL Content Redirection Limitations
- Unsupported URL Content Redirection Features
- Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications
- Limitations Regarding USB Device Types
- Overview of Setting Up USB Redirection
- Network Traffic and USB Redirection
- Automatic Connections to USB Devices
- Deploying USB Devices in a Secure Horizon 7 Environment
- Using Log Files for Troubleshooting and to Determine USB Device IDs
- Using Policies to Control USB Redirection
- Troubleshooting USB Redirection Problems
- Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools
- Setting Policies in Horizon Administrator
- Using Smart Policies
- Using Active Directory Group Policies
- Using Horizon 7 Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Horizon 7 ADMX Template Files
- Add the ADMX Template Files to Active Directory
- Horizon Agent Configuration ADMX Template Settings
- PCoIP Policy Settings
- VMware Blast Policy Settings
- Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies
- Configure the RDS Per Device CAL Storage
- Add the Remote Desktop Services ADMX Files to Active Directory
- RDS Application Compatibility Settings
- RDS Connections Settings
- RDS Device and Resource Redirection Settings
- RDS Licensing Settings
- RDS Printer Redirection Settings
- RDS Profiles Settings
- RDS Connection Server Settings
- RDS Remote Session Environment Settings
- RDS Security Settings
- RDS Session Time Limits
- RDS Temporary Folders Settings
- Setting Up Location-Based Printing
- Active Directory Group Policy Example
- Active Directory Group Policy Example
- Index
Add the ADMX Template Files to Active Directory
You can add the policy seings for specic remote desktop features in the Horizon 7 ADMX les to group
policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the setup option for the remote desktop feature you are applying the policy for is installed
on your desktops and RDS hosts. The group policy seings have no eect if the remote desktop feature
is not installed. See your Seing Up document for information on installing Horizon Agent.
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Create GPOs for the remote desktop features that you want to apply the group policy seings to and
link them to the OU that contains your RDS hosts.
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Verify the name of the ADMX template le that you want to add to Active Directory. See “Horizon 7
ADMX Template Files,” on page 98.
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Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
The steps for opening the Group Policy Management Console dier in the Windows 2012, Windows
2008, and Windows 2003 Active Directory versions. See “Create GPOs for Horizon 7 Group Policies,”
on page 169.
Procedure
1 Download the Horizon 7 GPO Bundle .zip le from the VMware download site at
hps://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the
GPO Bundle.
The le is named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.x is the version and
yyyyyyy is the build number. All ADMX les that provide group policy seings for Horizon 7 are
available in this le.
2 Unzip the VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip le and copy the ADMX les to your
Active Directory or RDS host.
a Copy the .admx les and the en-US folder to the %systemroot%\PolicyDefinitions folder on your
Active Directory or RDS host.
b Copy the language resource les (.adml) to the appropriate subfolder in %systemroot
%\PolicyDefinitions\ on your Active Directory or RDS host.
3 On the Active Directory host, open the Group Policy Management Editor and enter the path to the
template les where they appear in the editor after installation.
On an individual RDS host, you can open the Local Group Policy Editor with the gpedit.msc utility.
What to do next
Congure the group policy seings.
Horizon Agent Configuration ADMX Template Settings
The Horizon Agent Conguration ADMX template le (vdm_agent.admx) contains policy seings related to
the authentication and environmental components of Horizon Agent.
The ADMX les are available in a bundled .zip le named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-
yyyyyyy.zip, which you can download from the VMware download site at
hps://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads. Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the
VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the bundled .zip le.
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