Configuring Remote Desktop Features

Entry Description
.*
Species that all URLs are redirected.
If you use this seing for agent rules (agentRules option), all URLs are opened in the
specied remote desktop or application.
If you use this seing for client rules (clientRules option), all URLs are redirected to
the client.
.*.acme.com;.*.example.com Species that all URLs that include the text .acme.com or example.com are
redirected.
[space or leave empty] Species that no URLs are redirected. For example, leaving the clientRules option
empty species that no URLs are redirected to the client.
Agent-to-Client Redirection Group Policy Example
You might want to use agent-to-client redirection to conserve resources or as an added security layer. If
employees are working in a remote desktop or application and they want to watch videos, for example, you
might redirect those URLs to the client machine so that no extra load is put on the data center. Or for
security purposes, for employees working outside the company network, you might want all URLs that
point to external locations outside the company network to be opened on an employee's own client machine.
You could, for example, congure rules so that any content that is not company-related, that is, any URLs
that do not point to the company network, are redirected to open on the client machine. In this case you
could use the following seings, which include regular expressions:
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For agentRules: .*.mycompany.com
This rule redirects any URL that contains the text mycompany.com to be opened on the specied remote
desktop or application (agent).
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For clientRules: .*
This rule redirects all URLs to the client, to be opened with the default client browser.
The URL Content Redirection feature uses the following process to apply client and agent rules:
1 When a user clicks a link in a remote application or desktop, the client rules are checked rst.
2 If the URL matches a client rule, the agent rules are checked next.
3 If there is a conict between the agent rules and the client rules, the link is opened locally. In this case,
the URL is opened on the agent machine.
4 If there is no conict, the URL is redirected to the client.
In the example, the client and agent rules conict because URLs with mycompany.com are a subset of all
URLs. Because of this conict, URLs that include mycompany.com are opened locally. If you click a link
that includes mycompany.com in the URL while in a remote desktop, the URL is opened on that remote
desktop. If you click a link with mycompany.com in the URL in it from a client system, the URL is opened
on the client.
Configuring Client-to-Agent Redirection
With client-to-agent redirection, Horizon Client opens a remote desktop or application to handle a URL link
that a user clicks on the client. If a remote desktop is opened, the default application for the protocol in the
URL processes the URL. If a remote application is opened, the application processes the URL.
To use client-to-agent redirection, perform the following conguration 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.
Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
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