Configuring Remote Desktop Features

Create a Local URL Content Redirection Setting
You can create a local URL content redirection seing that redirects specic URLs to open on a remote
desktop or application. A local URL content redirection seing is visible only in the local pod.
You can congure any number of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, mailto, and callto.
As a best practice, congure the same redirection seings for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. That way, if a
user types a partial URL into Internet Explorer, such as mycompany.com, and that site automatically redirects
from HTTP to HTTPS, the URL Content Redirection feature will work as expected. In this example, if you
set a rule for HTTPS but do not set the same redirection seing for HTTP, the partial URL that the user types
is not redirected.
To create a global URL content redirection seing, which is visible across the pod federation, see “Create a
Global URL Content Redirection Seing,” on page 62.
Prerequisites
Become familiar with vdmutil command-line interface options and requirements and verify that you have
sucient privileges to run the the vdmutil command. See “Using the vdmutil Command-Line Utility,” on
page 59.
Procedure
1 Log in to the Connection Server instance.
2
Run the vdmutil command with the --createURLSetting option to create the URL content redirection
seing.
vdmutil --createURLSetting --urlSettingName value --urlRedirectionScope LOCAL
[--description value] [--urlScheme value] [--entitledApplication value | --entitledDesktop
value] [--agentURLPattern value]
Option Description
--urlSettingName
Unique name for the URL content redirection seing. The name can
contain between 1 and 64 characters.
--urlRedirectionScope
Scope of the URL content redirection seing. Specify LOCAL to make the
seing visible only in the local pod.
--description
Description of the URL content redirection seing. The description can
contain between 1 and 1024 characters.
--urlScheme
Protocol to which the URL content redirection seing applies, for example,
hp, hps, mailto, or callto.
--entitledApplication
Display name of a local application pool to use to open the specied URLs,
for example, iexplore-2012. You can also use this option to specify the
display name of a local RDS desktop pool.
--entitledDesktop
Display name of a local desktop pool to use to open the specied URLs, for
example, xx. For RDS desktop pools, use the --entitledApplication
option.
--agentURLPattern
A quoted string that species the URL that should be opened on the
remote desktop or application. You must include the protocol prex. You
can use wildcards to specify a URL paern that matches multiple URLs.
For example, if you type "http://google.*", all URLs that include the
text google are redirected to the remote desktop or application pool that
you specied. If you type .* (dot star), all URLs are redirected to the
remote desktop or application.
Chapter 3 Configuring URL Content Redirection
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