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(Optional) Run the vdmutil command with the --updateURLSetting option to add more protocols,
URLs, and local resources to the URL content redirection seing that you created.
vdmutil --updateURLSetting --urlSettingName value --urlRedirectionScope LOCAL
[--description value][--urlScheme value][--entitledApplication value | --entitledDesktop
value] [--agentURLPattern value]
The options are the same as for the vdmutil command with the --createURLSetting option.
Example: Creating a Local URL Content Redirection Setting
The following example creates a local URL content redirection seing called url-filtering that redirects all
client URLs that include the text http://google.* to the application pool called iexplore2012.
VdmUtil --createURLSetting --urlSettingName url-filtering --urlScheme http
--entitledApplication iexplore2012 --agentURLPattern "http://google.*"
--urlRedirectionScope LOCAL --authAs johndoe --authDomain mydomain --authPassword secret
The following example updates the url-filtering seing to also redirect all client URLs that contain the
text https://google.* to the application pool called iexplore2012.
vdmutil --updateURLSetting --urlSettingName url-filtering --urlScheme https
--entitledApplication iexplore2012 --agentURLPattern "https://google.*"
--urlRedirectionScope LOCAL --authAs johndoe --authDomain mydomain --authPassword secret
The following example updates the url-filtering seing to redirect all client URLs that contain the text
mailto://.*.mycompany.com to the application pool called Outlook2008.
vdmutil --updateURLSetting --urlSettingName url-filtering --urlScheme mailto
--entitledApplication Outlook2008 --agentURLPattern "mailto://.*.mycompany.com"
--urlRedirectionScope LOCAL --authAs johndoe --authDomain mydomain --authPassword secret
What to do next
Assign the URL content redirection seing to a user or group. See “Assign a URL Content Redirection
Seing to a User or Group,” on page 64.
Create a Global URL Content Redirection Setting
If you have a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, you can create a global URL content redirection seing
that redirects specic URLs to open on a remote desktop or application in any pod in the pod federation.
A global URL content redirection seing is visible across the pod federation. When you create a global URL
content redirection seing, you can redirect URLs to global resources, such as global desktop entitlements
and global application entitlements.
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.
For complete information about conguring and managing a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, see the
Administering Cloud Pod Architecture in Horizon 7 document.
To create a local URL content redirection seing, see “Create a Local URL Content Redirection Seing,” on
page 61.
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