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
System Requirements for Flash Redirection
With Flash Redirection, if you use Internet Explorer 9, 10, or 11, Flash content is sent to the client system.
The client system plays the media content, which reduces the load on the ESXi host.
Remote desktop
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Horizon Agent 7.0 or later must be installed in a single-user (VDI)
remote desktop, with the Flash Redirection option. The Flash
Redirection option is not selected by default.
See " Horizon Agent Custom Setup Options" in the Seing Up Virtual
Desktops in Horizon 7 document.
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The appropriate group policy seings must be congured. See “Install
and Congure Flash Redirection,” on page 16.
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Flash Redirection is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1,
and Windows 10 single-user remote desktops.
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Internet Explorer 9, 10, or 11 must be installed with the corresponding
Flash ActiveX plug-in.
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After installation, the VMware View FlashMMR Server add-on must be
enabled in Internet Explorer.
Horizon Client computer
or client access device
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Horizon Client 4.0 or later must be installed. The Flash Redirection
option is enabled by default.
See the topic about installing Horizon Client in the Using VMware
Horizon Client for Windows document.
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Flash Redirection is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1,
and Windows 10.
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The Flash ActiveX plug-in must be installed and enabled
Display protocol for the
remote session
VMware Blast, PCoIP
Install and Configure Flash Redirection
Redirecting Flash content from a remote desktop to a Flash Player window on the local client system
requires installing the Flash Redirection feature and Internet Explorer on the remote desktop and the client
system and specifying which Web sites will use this feature.
To install this feature on the client system, you must use a Horizon Client 4.0 or later installer. To install this
feature on a remote desktop, you must use a Horizon Agent 7.0 or later installer and select the correct
installation option, which is not selected by default. To enable this feature and to specify which Web sites
will use this feature, you use a group policy.
N You can alternatively use Windows Registry seings on the remote desktop to congure a white list
of Web sites to use for Flash Redirection. See “Use Windows Registry Seings to Congure Flash
Redirection,” on page 18.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you can log in as an Administrator domain user on the machine that hosts your Active
Directory server.
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Verify that the MMC and the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in are available on your Active Directory
server.
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