Configuring Remote Desktop Features
Table Of Contents
- Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
- Contents
- Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
- Configuring Remote Desktop Features
- Configuring Unity Touch
- Configuring Flash URL Redirection for Multicast or Unicast Streaming
- Configuring Flash Redirection
- Configuring Real-Time Audio-Video
- Configuration Choices for Real-Time Audio-Video
- System Requirements for Real-Time Audio-Video
- Ensuring That Real-Time Audio-Video Is Used Instead of USB Redirection
- Selecting Preferred Webcams and Microphones
- Select a Preferred Webcam or Microphone on a Windows Client System
- Select a Default Microphone on a Mac Client System
- Configuring Real-Time Audio-Video on a Mac Client
- Configure a Preferred Webcam or Microphone on a Mac Client System
- Select a Default Microphone on a Linux Client System
- Select a Preferred Webcam or Microphone on a Linux Client System
- Configuring Real-Time Audio-Video Group Policy Settings
- Real-Time Audio-Video Bandwidth
- Configuring Scanner Redirection
- Configuring Serial Port Redirection
- Managing Access to Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
- Managing Access to Client Drive Redirection
- Configure Skype for Business
- Configuring URL Content Redirection
- Understanding URL Content Redirection
- Requirements for URL Content Redirection
- Using URL Content Redirection in a Cloud Pod Architecture Environment
- Installing Horizon Agent with the URL Content Redirection Feature
- Configuring Agent-to-Client Redirection
- Configuring Client-to-Agent Redirection
- Installing Horizon Client for Windows with the URL Content Redirection Feature
- Using the vdmutil Command-Line Utility
- Create a Local URL Content Redirection Setting
- Create a Global URL Content Redirection Setting
- Assign a URL Content Redirection Setting to a User or Group
- Test a URL Content Redirection Setting
- Managing URL Content Redirection Settings
- Using Group Policy Settings to Configure Client-to-Agent Redirection
- URL Content Redirection Limitations
- Unsupported URL Content Redirection Features
- Using USB Devices with Remote Desktops and Applications
- Limitations Regarding USB Device Types
- Overview of Setting Up USB Redirection
- Network Traffic and USB Redirection
- Automatic Connections to USB Devices
- Deploying USB Devices in a Secure Horizon 7 Environment
- Using Log Files for Troubleshooting and to Determine USB Device IDs
- Using Policies to Control USB Redirection
- Troubleshooting USB Redirection Problems
- Configuring Policies for Desktop and Application Pools
- Setting Policies in Horizon Administrator
- Using Smart Policies
- Using Active Directory Group Policies
- Using Horizon 7 Group Policy Administrative Template Files
- Horizon 7 ADMX Template Files
- Add the ADMX Template Files to Active Directory
- Horizon Agent Configuration ADMX Template Settings
- PCoIP Policy Settings
- VMware Blast Policy Settings
- Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies
- Configure the RDS Per Device CAL Storage
- Add the Remote Desktop Services ADMX Files to Active Directory
- RDS Application Compatibility Settings
- RDS Connections Settings
- RDS Device and Resource Redirection Settings
- RDS Licensing Settings
- RDS Printer Redirection Settings
- RDS Profiles Settings
- RDS Connection Server Settings
- RDS Remote Session Environment Settings
- RDS Security Settings
- RDS Session Time Limits
- RDS Temporary Folders Settings
- Setting Up Location-Based Printing
- Active Directory Group Policy Example
- Active Directory Group Policy Example
- Index
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Users must use Horizon Client 4.0 or later to connect to remote desktops that you manage with Smart
Policies.
Installing User Environment Manager
To use Smart Policies to control the behavior of remote desktop features on a remote desktop, you must
install User Environment Manager 9.0 or later on the remote desktop.
You can download the User Environment Manager installer from the VMware Downloads page. You must
install the VMware UEM FlexEngine client component on each remote desktop that you want to manage
with User Environment Manager. You can install the User Environment Manager Management Console
component on any desktop from which you want to manage the User Environment Manager environment.
For a linked-clone pool, you install User Environment Manager in the parent virtual machine that you use as
a base image for the linked clones. For an RDS desktop pool, you install User Environment Manager on the
RDS host that provides the RDS desktop sessions.
For User Environment Manager system requirements and complete installation instructions, see the User
Environment Manager Administrator's Guide document.
Configuring User Environment Manager
You must congure User Environment Manager before you can use it to create smart policies for remote
desktop features.
To congure User Environment Manager, follow the conguration instructions in the User Environment
Manager Administrator's Guide. The following conguration steps supplement the information in that
document.
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When conguring the VMware UEM FlexEngine client component on remote desktops, create
FlexEngine logon and logo scripts. Use the -HorizonViewMultiSession -r parameter for the logon
script and the -HorizonViewMultiSession -s parameter for the logo script.
N Do not use logon scripts to start other applications on a remote desktop. Additional logon
scripts can delay remote desktop logon for up to 10 minutes.
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Enable the user group policy seing Run logon scripts synchronously on remote desktops. This
seing is located in the folder User Configuration\Policies\Administrative
Templates\System\Scripts.
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Enable the computer group policy seing Always wait for the network at computer startup and
logon on remote desktops. This seing is located in the folder Computer Configuration\Administrative
Template\System\Logon.
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For Windows 8.1 remote desktops, disable the computer group policy seing Configure Logon Script
Delay. This seing is located in the folder Computer Configuration\Administrative
Templates\System\Group Policy.
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To ensure that Horizon Smart Policy seings are refreshed when users reconnect to desktop sessions,
use the User Environment Manager Management Console to create a triggered task. Set the trigger to
Reconnect session, set the action to User Environment refresh, and select Horizon Smart Policies for
the refresh.
N If you create the triggered task while a user is logged in to the remote desktop, the user must log
o from the desktop for the triggered task to take eect.
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