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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Familiarize yourself with RTAV group policy seings. See “Real-Time Audio-Video Group Policy
Seings,” on page 31.
Procedure
1 Download the Horizon 7 GPO Bundle .zip le from the VMware download site at
hps://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
Under Desktop & End-User Computing, select the VMware Horizon 7 download, which includes the
GPO Bundle.
The le is named VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip, where x.x.x is the version and
yyyyyyy is the build number. All ADMX les that provide group policy seings for Horizon 7 are
available in this le.
2 Unzip the VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip le and copy the ADMX les to your
Active Directory or RDS host.
a Copy the vdm_agent_rtav.admx le and the en-US folder to the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions
folder on your Active Directory or RDS host.
b (Optional) Copy the language resource le (vdm_agent_rtav.adml) to the appropriate subfolder in
C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\ on your Active Directory or RDS host.
3 On the Active Directory host, open the Group Policy Management Editor and enter the path to the
template le in the editor.
On an individual RDS host, you can open the Local Group Policy Editor with the gpedit.msc utility.
The seings are located in the Computer > Policies > Administrative Templates > View
RTAV folder.
What to do next
Congure the group policy seings.
Real-Time Audio-Video Group Policy Settings
The Real-Time Audio-Video (RTAV) group policy seings control the virtual webcam's maximum frame rate
and maximum image resolution. An additional seing lets you disable or enable the RTAV feature. These
policy seings aect remote desktops, not the client systems where the physical devices are connected.
If you do not congure the RTAV group policy seings, RTAV uses the values that are set on the client
systems. On client systems, the default webcam frame rate is 15 frames per second. The default webcam
image resolution is 320x240 pixels.
The resolution group policy seings determine the maximum values that can be used. The frame rate and
resolution that are set on client systems are absolute values. For example, if you congure the RTAV seings
for maximum image resolution to 640x480 pixels, the webcam displays any resolution that is set on the
client up to 640x480 pixels. If you set the image resolution on the client to a value higher than 640x480 pixels,
the client resolution is capped at 640x480 pixels.
Not all congurations can achieve the maximum group policy seings of 1920x1080 resolution at 25 frames
per second. The maximum frame rate that your conguration can achieve for a given resolution depends
upon the webcam being used, the client system hardware, the Horizon Agent virtual hardware, and the
available bandwidth.
The resolution group policy seings determine the default values that are used when resolution values are
not set by the user.
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