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
Set the policy seing to map client ports to redirected ports. Select the Autoconnect item
in to ensure that the redirected ports are connected at the start of each desktop session.
Enable the Lock policy seing to prevent users from changing the port mappings or
customizing the port congurations. In this scenario, users never have to connect or disconnect
manually and cannot accidentally make a redirected COM port inaccessible to a 3rd-party application.
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If your users are knowledge workers who use a variety of 3rd-party applications and might also use
their COM ports locally on their client machines, make sure that users can connect and disconnect from
the redirected COM ports.
You might set the policy seing if the default port mappings are incorrect. You might or
might not set the Autoconnect item, depending on your users' requirements. Do not enable the Lock
policy seing.
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Make sure that your 3rd-party applications open the COM port that is mapped to the remote desktop.
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Make sure that the baud rate that is in use for a device matches the baud rate that the 3rd-party
application is aempting to use.
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You can redirect up to ve COM ports from a client system to a remote desktop.
Configuring Serial Port Redirection Group Policy Settings
You can congure group policy seings that control the behavior of serial port redirection on your remote
desktops. With these policy seings, you can control centrally, from Active Directory, the options that are
available in the Serial COM Redirection for VMware Horizon menu on users' desktops.
You do not have to congure these policy seings. Serial port redirection works with the default seings
that are congured for redirected COM ports on remote desktops and client systems.
These policy seings aect your remote desktops, not the client systems where the physical COM port
devices are connected. To congure these seings on your desktops, add the Serial Port Redirection Group
Policy Administrative Template (ADMX) le in Active Directory.
Add the Serial Port Redirection ADMX Template in Active Directory
You can add the policy seings in the serial port redirection ADMX le (vdm_agent_serialport.admx), to
group policy objects (GPOs) in Active Directory and congure the seings in the Group Policy Object Editor.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the Serial Port Redirection setup option is installed on your desktops. The group policy
seings have no eect if serial port redirection is not installed. See your Seing Up document for more
information on installing the Horizon Agent.
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Verify that Active Directory GPOs are created for the serial port redirection group policy seings. The
GPOs must be linked to the OU that contains your desktops. See “Active Directory Group Policy
Example,” on page 168.
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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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Familiarize yourself with serial port redirection group policy seings. See “Serial Port Redirection
Group Policy Seings,” on page 42.
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.
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