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
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Verify that the Horizon Agent Conguration ADMX template le vdm_agent.admx le has been added to
the OU for the remote desktop.
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Compile a list of the Web sites that can or cannot redirect Flash content. Compile a white list to ensure
that only the URLs specied in the list will be able to redirect Flash content. Compile a black list to
ensure that the URLs specied in the list will not be able to redirect Flash content.
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Verify that Flash ActiveX is installed and works properly. To verify the installation, run Internet
Explorer and go to hps://helpx.adobe.com/ash-player.html.
Procedure
1 On a Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 client system, install the required version of
Horizon Client and Flash Player ActiveX version.
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Install Horizon Client 4.0 or later. See the topic about installing Horizon Client, in Using VMware
Horizon Client for Windows document.
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If necessary, install the ActiveX version of Flash Player (rather than the NPAPI version). Flash
Player is installed by default in Internet Explorer 10 and 11. For Internet Explorer 9, you might
need to go to the following site to download and install Flash Player:
hps://get.adobe.com/ashplayer/.
2 On a Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 remote desktop, install the required version
of Horizon Agent and Internet Explorer, with Flash Player.
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Install Horizon Agent 7.0 or later and be sure to select the option for Flash Redirection
(experimental). This option is not selected by default.
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Install Internet Explorer 9, 10, or 11.
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If necessary, install the ActiveX version of Flash Player (rather than the NPAPI version). Flash
Player is installed by default in Internet Explorer 10 and 11. For Internet Explorer 9, you might
need to go to the following site to download and install Flash Player:
hps://get.adobe.com/ashplayer/.
3 On the remote desktop, in Internet Explorer, select Tools > Manage add-ons from the menu bar and
verify that VMware View FlashMMR Server is listed and enabled.
4 On the Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Editor and edit the Flash
Redirection policy seings under Computer .
The seings are located in the Computer > Policies > Administrative Templates >
Classic Administrative Templates > VMware Horizon Agent > VMware FlashMMR
folder.
Setting Description
Enable Flash multi-media
redirection
Species whether Flash Redirection (FlashMMR) is enabled on the remote
desktop (agent-side). When enabled, this feature forwards Flash multi-
media data from the designated URLs through a TCP channel to the client,
and invokes the local Flash Player on the client system. This feature greatly
reduces demand on the agent-side CPU and network bandwidth.
Minimum rect size to enable
FlashMMR
Species the minimum width and height, in pixels, of the rectangle in
which the Flash content is played. For example, 400,300 species a width
of 400 pixels and a height of 300 pixels. Flash Redirection will be used only
if the Flash content is equal to or greater than the values specied in this
policy. If this GPO is not congured, the default value used is 320,200.
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