Configuring Remote Desktop Features

System Requirements for Unity Touch
Horizon Client software and the mobile devices on which you install Horizon Client must meet certain
version requirements to support Unity Touch.
Horizon 7 desktop
To support Unity Touch, the following software must be installed in the
virtual machine that the end user will access:
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You install the Unity Touch feature by installing View Agent 6.0 or later.
See "Install View Agent on a Virtual Machine" in the Seing Up Virtual
Desktops in Horizon 7 document.
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Operating systems: Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows 8 (32-bit or
64-bit), Windows 8.1 (32-bit or 64-bit), Windows Server 2008 R2, or
Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit)
Horizon Client software
Unity Touch is supported on the following Horizon Client versions:
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Horizon Client 2.0 for iOS or later
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Horizon Client 2.0 for Android or later
Mobile device operating
systems
Unity Touch is supported on the following mobile device operating systems:
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iOS 5.0 and later
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Android 3 (Honeycomb), Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich), and
Android 4.1 and 4.2 (Jelly Bean)
Configure Favorite Applications Displayed by Unity Touch
With the Unity Touch feature, tablet and smart phone users can quickly navigate to a Horizon 7 desktop
application or le from a Unity Touch sidebar. Although end users can specify which favorite applications
appear in the sidebar, for added convenience, administrators can congure a default list of favorite
applications.
If you use oating-assignment desktop pools, the favorite applications and favorite les that end users
specify will be lost when they disconnect from a desktop unless you enable roaming user proles in Active
Directory.
The default list of favorite applications list remains in eect when an end user rst connects to a desktop
that is enabled with Unity Touch. However, if the user congures his or her own favorite application list, the
default list is ignored. The user's favorite application list stays in the user's roaming prole and is available
when the user connects to dierent machines in a oating or dedicated pool.
If you create a default list of favorite applications and one or more of the applications are not installed in the
Horizon 7 desktop operating system, or the paths to these applications are not found in the Start menu, the
applications do not appear in the list of favorites. You can use this behavior to set up one master default list
of favorite applications that can be applied to multiple virtual machine images with dierent sets of
installed applications.
For example, if Microsoft Oce and Microsoft Visio are installed on one virtual machine, and Windows
Powershell and VMware vSphere Client are installed on a second virtual machine, you can create one list
that includes all four applications. Only the installed applications appear as default favorite applications on
each respective desktop.
You can use dierent methods to specify a default list of favorite applications:
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Add a value to the Windows registry on the virtual machines in the desktop pool
Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
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