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4 To nd a user, click Add, type the name or description of the user, and then click Find.
5 Select one or more users from the list, click OK, and then click Next.
The Add Individual Policy dialog box appears.
6 Congure the Horizon policies and click Finish to save your changes.
Horizon 7 Policies
You can congure Horizon 7 policies to aect all client sessions, or you can apply them to aect specic
desktop pools or users.
Table 5-1 describes each Horizon 7 policy seing.
Table 5‑1. Horizon Policies
Policy Description
Multimedia redirection (MMR) Determines whether MMR is enabled for client systems.
MMR is a Windows Media Foundation lter that forwards multimedia data
from specic codecs on remote desktops directly through a TCP socket to the
client system. The data is then decoded directly on the client system, where it is
played.
The default value is Deny.
If client systems have insucient resources to handle local multimedia
decoding, leave the seing as Deny.
Multimedia Redirection (MMR) data is sent across the network without
application-based encryption and might contain sensitive data, depending on
the content being redirected. To ensure that this data cannot be monitored on
the network, use MMR only on a secure network.
USB Access Determines whether remote desktops can use USB devices connected to the
client system.
The default value is Allow. To prevent the use of external devices for security
reasons, change the seing to Deny.
PCoIP hardware acceleration Determines whether to enable hardware acceleration of the PCoIP display
protocol and species the acceleration priority that is assigned to the PCoIP
user session.
This seing has an eect only if a PCoIP hardware acceleration device is
present on the physical computer that hosts the remote desktop.
The default value is Allow at Medium priority.
Using Smart Policies
You can use Smart Policies to create policies that control the behavior of the USB redirection, virtual
printing, clipboard redirection, client drive redirection, and PCoIP display protocol features on specic
remote desktops. You can also use Smart Policies to create policies that control the behavior of published
applications.
With Smart Policies, you can create policies that take eect only if certain conditions are met. For example,
you can congure a policy that disables the client drive redirection feature if a user connects to a remote
desktop from outside your corporate network.
Requirements for Smart Policies
To use Smart Policies, your Horizon 7 environment must meet certain requirements.
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You must install Horizon Agent 7.0 or later and VMware User Environment Manager 9.0 or later on the
remote desktops that you want to manage with Smart Policies.
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