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
RDS Connections Settings
The RDS Connections group policy seings let users set policies for connections to sessions on RDS hosts.
The Horizon 7 RDS group policy seings are installed in the Computer > Policies >
Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop
Session Host > Connections folder.
The Horizon 7 RDS group policy seings are also installed in the User > Administrative
Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host >
Connections folder.
Table 5‑14. RDS Connections Group Policy Settings
Setting Description
Automatic reconnection
Species whether to allow remote desktop connection clients
to automatically reconnect to sessions on an RDS host if their
network link is temporarily lost. By default, a maximum of
twenty reconnection aempts are made at ve second
intervals.
If you enable this policy seing, automatic reconnection is
aempted for all clients running the remote desktop
connection whenever their network connection is lost.
If you disable this policy seing, automatic reconnection of
clients is prohibited.
If you do not congure this policy seing, automatic
reconnection is not specied at the Group Policy level.
However, users can congure automatic reconnection using
the Reconnect if connection is dropped checkbox on the
Experience tab in the remote desktop connection.
Allow users to connect remotely using Remote
Desktop Services
This policy seing congures remote access to computers
using Remote Desktop Services.
If you enable this policy seing, users who are members of the
Remote Desktop Users group on the target computer can
connect remotely to the target computer using Remote
Desktop Services.
If you disable this policy seing, users cannot connect
remotely to the target computer using Remote Desktop
Services. The target computer will maintain any current
connections, but will not accept any new incoming
connections.
If you do not congure this policy seing, Remote Desktop
Services uses the Remote Desktop seing on the target
computer to determine whether remote connection is allowed.
This seing is found on the Remote tab in System Properties.
By default, remote connection is not allowed.
N You can limit which clients are able to connect
remotely using Remote Desktop Services by conguring the
"Require user authentication for remote connections by using
Network Level Authentication" policy seing located in the
Computer > Administrative Templates >
Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote
Desktop Session Host > Security folder. You can limit the
number of users who can connect simultaneously by
conguring the Maximum Connections option on the
Network Adapter tab in the Remote Desktop Session Host
Conguration tool or by conguring the "Limit number of
connections" policy seing located in the Computer
> Administrative Templates > Windows
Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop
Session Host > Connections folder.
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