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
2 Unzip the VMware-Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyyy.zip le and copy the URL Content
Redirection ADMX le to your Active Directory server.
a Copy the urlRedirection-enUS.admx le to the C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions folder.
b Copy the urlRedirection.adml language resource le to the appropriate subfolder in the
C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions directory.
For example, for the EN locale, copy the urlRedirection-enUS.adml le to the
C:\Windows\PolicyDefinitions\en-US folder.
3 On your Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Editor.
The URL Content Redirection group policy seings are installed in Computer > Policies
> Administrative Templates > VMware Horizon URL Redirection.
What to do next
Congure the group policy seings.
URL Content Redirection Group Policy Settings
The URL Content Redirection template le contains group policy seings that enable you to create rules for
agent-to-client and client-to-agent redirection. The template le contains only Computer Conguration
seings. All of the seings are in the VMware Horizon URL Redirection folder in the Group Policy
Management Editor.
The following table describes the group policy seings in the URL Content Redirection template le.
Table 3‑1. URL Content Redirection Group Policy Settings
Setting Properties
IE Policy: Prevent users from
changing URL Redirection plugin
loading behavior
Determines whether users can disable the URL Content Redirection
feature.
This seing is not congured by default.
IE Policy: Automatically enable URL
Redirection plugin
Determines whether newly installed Internet Explorer plug-ins are
automatically activated.
This seing is not congured by default.
Url Redirection Enabled
Determines whether the URL Content Redirection feature is enabled.
You can use this seing to disable the URL Content Redirection feature
even if the feature has been installed in the client or agent.
This seing is not congured by default.
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