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
What to do next
Create GPOs for Horizon 7 group policies.
Create GPOs for Horizon 7 Group Policies
Create GPOs to contain group policies for Horizon 7 components and location-based printing and link them
to the OU for your Horizon 7 machines.
Prerequisites
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Create an OU for your Horizon 7 machines.
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Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
Procedure
1 On the Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Console.
AD Version Navigation Path
Windows 2012
Select Server Manager > Tools > Group Policy Management.
Windows 2008
Select Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management.
Windows 2003
a Select Start > All Programs > Administrative Tools > Active Directory
Users and Computers.
b Right-click the OU that contains your Horizon 7 machines and select
Properties.
c On the Group Policy tab, click Open to open the Group Policy
Management plug-in.
2 Expand your domain, right-click the OU that contains your Horizon 7 machines, and select Create a
GPO in this domain, and Link it here.
On Windows 2003 Active Directory, this option is named Create and Link a GPO Here.
3 Type a name for the GPO and click OK.
The new GPO appears under the OU in the left pane.
4 (Optional) To apply the GPO only to specic Horizon 7 machines in the OU:
a Select the GPO in the left pane.
b Select Security Filtering > Add.
c Type the computer names of the Horizon 7 machines and click OK.
The Horizon 7 machines appear in the Security Filtering pane. The seings in the GPO apply only
to these machines.
What to do next
Add the Horizon ADMX templates to the GPO for group policies.
Add Horizon 7 ADMX Template File to a GPO
To apply Horizon 7 component group policy seings to your published desktops and applications, add their
ADMX template les to GPOs.
Prerequisites
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Create GPOs for the Horizon 7 component group policy seings and link them to the OU that contains
your Horizon 7 machines.
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Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.
Chapter 5 Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools
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