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
Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies
You can use Remote Desktop Services (RDS) group policies to control the conguration and performance of
RDS hosts and RDS desktop and application sessions. Horizon 7 provides ADMX les that contain the
Microsoft RDS group policies that are supported in Horizon 7.
As a best practice, congure the group policies that are provided in the Horizon 7 ADMX les rather than
the corresponding Microsoft group policies. The Horizon 7 group policies are certied to support your
Horizon 7 deployment.
Configure the RDS Per Device CAL Storage
You can congure the RDS Per Device CAL storage options to specify the location of the CALs to be stored.
This feature lets you decide whether you want to store the CALs or not.
Sometimes, there might be potential over usage of Per Device CALs, such as Horizon RDS Deployments
might have both Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 systems. Enabling this feature makes the
CAL usage ecient in Horizon RDS deployments. This is achieved by storing the issued license, supplying
the license when the client is trying to connect to the RDS host, and storing the license again if there is any
license upgrade.
You can congure the RDS Per Device CAL in the Horizon Administrator or manually in the Horizon LDAP
database.
Procedure
1 In the Horizon Administrator, click View > Global .
2 In the General pane, click Edit.
3 Select one of the following congurations from the RDS Per Device CAL Storage Options drop-down
menu.
Option Description
Save only on Broker
The Per Device CALs are saved only on Broker.
N The LDAP entry, cs-enablerdslicensing=true and
sendRdsLicense=false.
Save on both Clients and Broker
The Per Device CALs are stored on both Clients and Broker.
N The LDAP entries cs-enablerdslicensing=true and
sendRdsLicense=true.
Don't save the Per Device CAL
The Per Device CALs are not stored at any location.
N The LDAP entries, cs-enablerdslicensing=false and
sendRdsLicense=false.
4 Click OK.
Add the Remote Desktop Services ADMX Files to Active Directory
You can add the policy seings in the Horizon 7 RDS ADMX les to group policy objects (GPOs) in Active
Directory. You can also install the RDS ADMX les on individual RDS hosts.
Prerequisites
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Create GPOs for the RDS group policy seings and link them to the OU that contains your RDS hosts.
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Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
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