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
Disabling Client Drive Redirection
To disable client drive redirection, create a new string value named disabled and set its value to true.
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\disabled=true
The value is false (enabled) by default.
Preventing Write Access to Shared Folders
To prevent write access to all folders that are shared with the remote desktop, create a new string value
named permissions and set its value to any string that begins with r, except for rw.
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\permissions=r
The value is rw (all shared folders are readable and writeable) by default.
Sharing Specific Folders
To share specic folders with the remote desktop, create a new key named default shares and create a new
subkey for each folder to share with the remote desktop. For each subkey, create a new string value named
name and set its value to the path of the folder to share. The following example shares the folders C:\ebooks
and C:\spreadsheets.
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\default shares\f1\name=C:\ebooks
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\default shares\f2\name=C:\spreadsheets
If you set name to *all, all client drives are shared with the remote desktop. The *all seing is supported
only on Windows client systems.
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\default shares\1st\name=*all
To prevent the client from sharing additional folders (that is, folders that are not specied with the default
shares key), create a string value named ForcedByAdmin and set its value to true.
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\ForcedByAdmin=true
When the value is true, the Sharing dialog box does not appear when users connect to the remote desktop in
Horizon Client. The value is false (clients can share additional folders) by default.
The following example shares the folders C:\ebooks and C:\spreadsheets, makes both folders read-only,
and prevents the client from sharing additional folders.
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\ForcedByAdmin=true
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\permissions=r
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\default shares\f1\name=C:\ebooks
HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMware TSDR\default shares\f2\name=C:\spreadsheets
N Do not use the ForcedByAdmin feature as a security feature or share control. A user can bypass the
ForcedByAdmin=true seing by creating a link to an existing share that points to folders not specied with
the default shares key.
Configure Skype for Business
You can make optimized audio and video calls with Skype for Business inside a virtual desktop without
negatively aecting the virtual infrastructure and overloading the network.
All media processing takes place on the client machine instead of in the virtual desktop during Skype audio
and video call.
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