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
Follow the prompts and complete the installation.
To verify that the URL Content Redirection feature is installed, make sure that the vmware-url-protocol-
launch-helper.exe and vmware-url-filtering-plugin.dll les are in the %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware\VMware
View\Agent\bin\UrlRedirection directory. Also, verify that the VMware Horizon View URL Filtering Plugin
Internet Explorer add-on is enabled.
Configuring Agent-to-Client Redirection
With agent-to-client redirection, Horizon Agent sends the URL to Horizon Client, which opens the default
application for the protocol in the URL.
To enable agent-to-client redirection, perform the following conguration tasks.
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Enable the URL Content Redirection feature in Horizon Agent. See “Installing Horizon Agent with the
URL Content Redirection Feature,” on page 54.
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Apply the URL Content Redirection group policy seings to your remote desktops and applications.
See “Add the URL Content Redirection ADMX Template to a GPO,” on page 55.
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Congure group policy seings to indicate, for each protocol, how Horizon Agent should redirect the
URL. See “URL Content Redirection Group Policy Seings,” on page 56.
Add the URL Content Redirection ADMX Template to a GPO
The URL Content Redirection ADMX template le, called urlRedirection-enUS.admx, contains seings that
enable you to control whether a URL link is opened on the client (agent-to-client redirection) or in a remote
desktop or application (client-to-agent redirection).
To apply the URL Content Redirection group policy seings to your remote desktops and applications, add
the ADMX template le to GPOs on your Active Directory server. For rules regarding URL links clicked in a
remote desktop or application, the GPOs must be linked to the OU that contains your virtual desktops and
RDS hosts.
You can also apply the group policy seings to a GPO that is linked to the OU that contains your Windows
client computers, but the preferred method for conguring client-to-agent redirection is to use the vdmutil
command-line utility. Because macOS does not support GPOs, you must use vmdutil if you have Mac
clients.
Prerequisites
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Verify that the URL Content Redirection feature is included when you install Horizon Agent. See
“Installing Horizon Agent with the URL Content Redirection Feature,” on page 54.
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Verify that Active Directory GPOs are created for the URL Content Redirection group policy seings.
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Verify that the MMC and Group Policy Management Editor snap-in are available on your Active
Directory server.
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.
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