Configuring Remote Desktop Features

Requirements for URL Content Redirection
To use the URL Content Redirection feature, your client machines, remote desktop machines, and RDS hosts
must meet certain requirements.
Windows clients
Horizon Client 4.0 for Windows or later.
To use client-to-agent redirection, you must enable the URL Content
Redirection feature during Horizon Client for Windows installation. You do
not need to enable the URL Content Redirection feature in Horizon Client for
Windows to use agent-to-client redirection.
Mac clients
Horizon Client 4.2 for Mac or later.
In Horizon Client 4.2 or 4.3 for Mac, URL Content Redirection is a Tech
Preview feature and it supports only agent-to-client redirection. In
Horizon Client 4.4 for Mac and later, URL Content Redirection is ocially
supported and it supports both agent-to-client and client-to-agent
redirection.
Desktop virtual
machines and RDS
hosts
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later in remote desktop machines and RDS hosts that
provide desktops and applications.
You must enable the URL Content Redirection feature during Horizon Agent
installation.
Web browsers
Internet Explorer 9,10, and 11
Display protocols
VMware Blast and PCoIP
Using URL Content Redirection in a Cloud Pod Architecture
Environment
If you have a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, you can congure global URL content redirection
seings in addition to local URL content redirection seings.
Unlike local URL content redirection seings, which are visible only in the local pod, global URL content
redirection seings are visible across the pod federation. With global URL content redirection seings, you
can redirect URL links in the client to global resources, such as global desktop entitlements and global
application entitlements.
When a user uses Horizon Client to log in to a Connection Server instance in the pod federation, the
Connection Server instance looks for all of the local and global URL content redirection seings assigned to
the user. The local and global seings are merged and used whenever the user clicks a URL on the client
machine.
For complete information about conguring and managing a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, see the
Administering Cloud Pod Architecture in Horizon 7 document.
Installing Horizon Agent with the URL Content Redirection Feature
To use URL content redirection from a remote desktop or application to a client (agent-to-client redirection),
or from a client to a remote desktop or application (client-to-agent redirection), you must enable the URL
Content Redirection feature when you install Horizon Agent.
Instead of double-clicking the installer le, start the Horizon Agent installation by running the following
command in a command prompt window:
VMware-viewagent-x86_64-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /v URL_FILTERING_ENABLED=1
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