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
With earlier client or agent releases, client drive redirection folders and les are sent across the network
without encryption and might contain sensitive data, depending on the content being redirected. If the
secure tunnel is enabled, client drive redirection connections between Horizon Client and the View Secure
Gateway are secure, but connections from the View Secure Gateway to desktop machines are not encrypted.
If the secure tunnel is disabled, client drive redirection connections from Horizon Client to the desktop
machines are not encrypted. To ensure that this data cannot be monitored on the network, use client drive
redirection only on a secure network if Horizon Client is earlier than version 3.5 or agent is earlier than
version 6.2.
The Client Drive Redirection setup option in the agent installer is selected by default. As a best practice,
enable the Client Drive Redirection setup option only in desktop pools where users require this feature.
Use Group Policy to Disable Client Drive Redirection
You can disable client drive redirection by conguring a Microsoft Remote Desktop Services group policy
seing for remote desktops and RDS hosts in Active Directory.
For more information about client drive redirection, see the Using VMware Horizon Client document for the
specic type of desktop client device. Go to
hps://www.vmware.com/support/viewclients/doc/viewclients_pubs.html.
N This seing overrides local registry and Smart Policies seings that enable the client drive redirection
feature.
Prerequisites
If your View deployment includes a back-end rewall between your DMZ-based security servers and your
internal network, verify that the back-end rewall allows trac to port 9427 on your single-user and RDS
desktops. TCP connections on port 9427 are required to support client drive redirection.
For Horizon Client 4.2 or Horizon 7 version 7.0.2 or later, port 9427 is not required to be open if VMware
Blast Extreme is enabled because client drive redirection transfers data through the virtual channel.
Procedure
1 In the Group Policy Editor, go to Computer
Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Device
and Resource Redirection.
This navigation path is for Active Directory on Windows Server 2012. The navigation path diers on
other Windows operating systems.
2 Enable the Do not allow drive redirection group policy seing.
Use Registry Settings to Configure Client Drive Redirection
You can use Windows registry key seings to control client drive redirection behavior on a remote desktop.
This feature requires Horizon Agent 7.0 or later and Horizon Client 4.0 or later.
The Windows registry seings that control client drive redirection behavior on a remote desktop are located
in the following path:
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR
You can use the Windows Registry Editor on the remote desktop to edit local registry seings.
N Client drive redirection policies set with Smart Policies take precedence over local registry seings.
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