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 HTML5 Multimedia 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
- Activate the BEAT Side Channel for USB or Client Drive Redirection
- 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
- VMware View Agent Configuration ADMX Template Settings
- VMware Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business Policy Settings
- PCoIP Policy Settings
- VMware Blast Policy Settings
- Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies
- Add the Remote Desktop Services ADMX File 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
- Filtering Printers for Virtual Printing
- Setting Up Location-Based Printing
- Active Directory Group Policy Example
Table 5‑13. VMware Blast Policy Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
Image Quality
Specifies the image quality of the remote display. You can specify two low-quality settings, two high-
quality settings, and a mid-quality setting. The low-quality settings are for areas of the screen that
change often, for example, when scrolling occurs. The high-quality settings are for areas of the
screen that are more static, resulting in a better image quality. You can specify the following settings:
n
Low JPEG Quality (available range of values: 1 - 100, default: 25)
n
Low JPEG Chroma Subsampling (available range of values: 4:1:0 (lowest), 4:1:1, 4:2:0, 4:2:2,
and 4:4:4 (highest), default: 4:1:0)
n
Mid JPEG Quality (available range of values: 1 - 100, default: 35)
n
High JPEG Quality (available range of values: 1 - 100, default: 90)
n
High JPEG Chroma Subsampling (available range of values: 4:1:0 (lowest), 4:1:1, 4:2:0, 4:2:2,
and 4:4:4 (highest), default: 4:4:4)
H.264 Quality
Specifies the image quality for the remote display configured to use H.264 encoding. You can specify
the minimum and maximum quantization values that determine how much an image is controlled for
lossless compression. You can specify a minimum quantization value for the best image quality. You
can specify a maximum quantization value for the lowest image quality. You can specify the following
settings:
n
H264maxQP (available range of values: 0-51, default: 36)
n
H264minQP (available range of values: 0-51, default: 10)
For the best image quality, set the quantization values to within +5 or -5 of the available range of
values.
HTTP Service
Specifies the port that is used for secure communication (HTTPS) between the security server or
Access Point appliance and a desktop. The firewall must be configured to have this port open. The
default is 22443.
Audio playback
Specifies whether audio playback is enabled for remote desktops. This setting is to enable audio
playback.
Configure clipboard
redirection
Specifies the permissible behavior for clipboard redirection. The options are:
n
Enabled in both directions
n
Disabled in both directions
n
Enabled client to server only (Users can copy/paste from the client to the desktop only.)
n
Enabled server to client only (Users can copy/paste from the desktop to the client only.)
The default is Enabled client to server only.
Clipboard memory size
on server(in
kilobytes)
Specifies the server's clipboard memory size value, in kilobytes. The client also has a value for the
clipboard memory size. After the session is set up, the server sends its clipboard memory size value
to the client. The effective clipboard memory size value is the lesser of the client and server clipboard
memory size values.
You can specify a minimum value of 512 kilobytes and a maximum value of 16384 kilobytes. If you
specify 0 or do not specify a value, the default server clipboard memory size is 1024 kilobytes.
This setting applies only to version 7.0.1 and later and to Windows, Linux, and Mac clients on which
Horizon Client 4.1 or later is installed. In earlier releases, the clipboard memory size is 1 MB.
Note A large clipboard memory size can negatively affect performance, depending on your network.
VMware recommends that you do not set the clipboard memory size to a value greater than 16 MB.
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