Configuring Remote Desktop Features

Configuring Policies for Desktop and
Application Pools 5
You can congure policies to control the behavior of desktop and application pools, machines, and users.
You use Horizon Administrator to set policies for client sessions. You can use Active Directory group policy
seings to control the behavior of Horizon Agent, Horizon Client for Windows, and features that aect
single-user machines, RDS hosts, PCoIP, or VMware Blast.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Seing Policies in Horizon Administrator,” on page 89
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“Using Smart Policies,” on page 91
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“Using Active Directory Group Policies,” on page 97
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“Using Horizon 7 Group Policy Administrative Template Files,” on page 98
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“Horizon 7 ADMX Template Files,” on page 98
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“Add the ADMX Template Files to Active Directory,” on page 100
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“Horizon Agent Conguration ADMX Template Seings,” on page 100
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“PCoIP Policy Seings,” on page 110
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“VMware Blast Policy Seings,” on page 124
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“Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies,” on page 128
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“Seing Up Location-Based Printing,” on page 163
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“Active Directory Group Policy Example,” on page 168
Setting Policies in Horizon Administrator
You use Horizon Administrator to congure policies for client sessions.
You can set these policies to aect specic users, specic desktop pools, or all client sessions users. Policies
that aect specic users and desktop pools are called user-level policies and desktop pool-level policies.
Policies that aect all sessions and users are called global policies.
User-level policies inherit seings from the equivalent desktop pool-level policy seings. Similarly, desktop
pool-level policies inherit seings from the equivalent global policy seings. A desktop pool-level policy
seing takes precedence over the equivalent global policy seing. A user-level policy seing takes
precedence over the equivalent global and desktop pool-level policy seings.
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