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
Enabling Lossless Compression for VMware Blast
You can enable the VMware Blast display protocol to use an encoding approach called progressive build,
or build-to-lossless. This feature provides a highly compressed initial image, called a lossy image, that is
then progressively built to a full lossless state. A lossless state means that the image appears with the full
fidelity intended.
To enable lossless compression for VMware Blast, set the EncoderBuildToPNG key to 1 in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\Config folder in the Windows registry
on the agent machine. The default value is 0 (disabled), which means the codec does not build to PNG,
which is a lossless format.
Configuration changes to the EncoderBuildToPNG key take place immediately.
Note Enabling lossless compression for VMware Blast causes an increase in bandwidth and CPU
usage. VMware recommends that you use the PCoIP display protocol instead of VMware Blast if you
require lossless compression. For information about configuring lossless compression for PCoIP, see
PCoIP Build-to-Lossless Feature.
Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies
You can use Remote Desktop Services group policies to control the configuration and performance of
RDS hosts and RDS desktop and application sessions. Horizon 7 provides an ADMX file that contains the
Microsoft RDS group policies that are supported in Horizon 7.
As a best practice, configure the group policies that are provided in the Horizon 7 ADMX file rather than
the corresponding Microsoft group policies. The Horizon 7 group policies are certified to support your
Horizon 7 deployment.
Add the Remote Desktop Services ADMX File to Active Directory
You can add the policy settings in the Remote Desktop Services ADMX file to group policy objects
(GPOs) in Active Directory.
You can also install the Remote Desktop Services ADMX file on individual RDS hosts. On an individual
RDS host, you use the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) to edit group policy settings.
Prerequisites
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Create GPOs for the Remote Desktop Services group policy settings and link them to the OU that
contains your RDS hosts.
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Verify that you can log in as an Administrator domain user on the machine that hosts your Active
Directory server.
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Verify that the MMC and the Group Policy Management snap-in are available on your Active Directory
server.
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