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
Prerequisites
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Compile a white list of Web sites to ensure that only the URLs specied in the list will be able to redirect
Flash content. Although you can compile a black list of Web sites, you cannot use the Windows registry
seings to enable the black list. A black list ensures that only the URLs specied in the list will not be
able to redirect Flash content. To enable a black list, you must use the GPO seings for Flash
Redirection.
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Verify that Horizon Agent 7.0 or later is installed in the remote desktop, along with Flash Player and
Internet Explorer 9, 10, or 11. See “Install and Congure Flash Redirection,” on page 16.
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Verify that you are using Horizon Client 4.0 or later, along with Flash Player ActiveX version.
Procedure
1 Use Horizon Client to access the remote desktop (agent machine).
2 Open the Windows Registry Editor (regedit.exe) on the agent machine, navigate to the following
folder, and set FlashRedirection to 1:
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware FlashMMR
N This seing enables the Flash Redirection feature, but if this seing is disabled (set to 0) in
HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware FlashMMR, it means Flash Redirection is disabled
domain-wide, and requires a domain administrator to enable it.
3 Navigate to the following folder:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware FlashMMR
If this folder does not already exist, create it.
4 In the VMware FlashMMR folder, create a sub-key named UrlWhiteList.
5 Right-click the UrlWhiteList key, select New > String Value, and for the name, enter the URL of a Web
site that will use Flash Redirection.
You can use regular expressions. For example, you could specify https://*.google.com. Be sure to leave
the Data value empty.
6 (Optional) (Horizon 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 only) In the data eld of the new registry value, add the data
requireIECompatibility=true, appMode=0, or both (use a comma to separate the two strings).
Web sites support HTML5 by default and Flash Redirection does not work with these Web sites. You
must set requireIECompatibility=true for these sites to work. This parameter is not required for the
YouTube Web site.
By default, external interface support is enabled when Flash Redirection runs. This can degrade
performance. For Horizon 7.0.1 or later, in certain situations, seing appMode=0 can improve
performance, and seing appMode=1 can result in a beer user experience.
7 Repeat the previous step to add additional URLs, and when you are nished, close the Registry Editor.
8 On the agent machine, open a command prompt and change to the following directory:
%Program Files%\Common Files\VMware\Remote Experience
9 Run the following command to add the white list to Internet Explorer.
cscript mergeflashmmrwhitelist.vbs
10 Restart Internet Explorer.
The sites set with the parameter requireIECompatibility=true are added to Internet Explorer's
compatibility view. You can verify this by selecting Tools > Compatibility View from the
menu bar.
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