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
Table 5‑5. Horizon ADMX Template Files (Continued)
Template Name Template File Description
VMware Horizon URL Redirection
urlRedirection-enUS.admx
Contains policy seings related to the URL
Content Redirection Feature. If you add this
template to a GPO for a remote desktop pool or
application pool, certain URL links clicked inside
the remote desktops or app can be redirected to
a Windows-based client and opened in a client-
side browser.
If you add this template to a client-side GPO,
when a user clicks certain URL links in a
Windows-based client system, the URL can be
opened in a remote desktop or application.
See Chapter 3, “Conguring URL Content
Redirection,” on page 53 and see the Using
VMware Horizon Client for Windows document.
Connection Server Conguration
vdm_server.admx
Contains policy seings related to Connection
Server.
See the View Administration document.
View Common Conguration
vdm_common.admx
Contains policy seings that are common to all
Horizon components.
See the View Administration document.
PCoIP Session Variables
pcoip.admx
Contains policy seings related to the PCoIP
display protocol.
PCoIP Client Session Variables
pcoip.client.admx
Contains policy seings related to the PCoIP
display protocol that aect Horizon Client for
Windows.
See the Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows
document.
Horizon Persona Management
Conguration
ViewPM.admx
Contains policy seings related to Horizon
Persona Management.
See the Seing Up Virtual Desktops in Horizon 7
document.
Remote Desktop Services
vmware_rdsh.admx
Contains policy seings related to Remote
Desktop Services.
See “Using Remote Desktop Services Group
Policies,” on page 128.
Real-Time Audio-Video
Conguration
vdm_agent_rtav.admx
Contains policy seings related to webcams that
are used with the Real-Time Audio-Video
feature.
See “Real-Time Audio-Video Group Policy
Seings,” on page 31.
Scanner Redirection
vdm_agent_scanner.admx
Contains policy seings related to scanning
devices that are redirected for use in published
desktops and applications.
See “Scanner Redirection Group Policy Seings,”
on page 36.
Serial Port Redirection
vdm_agent_serialport.admx
Contains policy seings related to serial (COM)
ports that are redirected for use in virtual
desktops.
See “Serial Port Redirection Group Policy
Seings,” on page 42.
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