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 5‑21. RDS Remote Session Environment Group Policy Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
Always show desktop on connection
This policy setting determines whether the desktop is always
displayed after a client connects to a remote computer or an initial
program can run. Use this setting to require that the desktop be
displayed after a client connects to a remote computer, even if an
initial program is already specified in the default user profile,
Remote Desktop Connection, Remote Desktop Services client, or
through Group Policy.
If you enable this policy setting, the desktop is always displayed
when a client connects to a remote computer. This policy setting
overrides any initial program policy settings.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, an initial
program can be specified that runs on the remote computer after
the client connects to the remote computer. If an initial program is
not specified, the desktop is always displayed on the remote
computer after the client connects to the remote computer.
Note If this policy setting is enabled, then the "Start a program on
connection" policy setting is ignored.
Allow desktop composition for remote desktop
sessions
Use this policy setting to specify whether desktop composition is
allowed for remote desktop sessions. This policy setting does not
apply to RemoteApp sessions.
Desktop composition provides the user interface elements of
Windows Aero, such as translucent windows, for remote desktop
sessions. Because Windows Aero requires additional system and
bandwidth resources, allowing desktop composition for remote
desktop sessions can reduce connection performance, particularly
over slow links, and increase the load on the remote computer.
If you enable this policy setting, desktop composition will be allowed
for remote desktop sessions. On the client computer, you can
configure desktop composition on the Experience tab in Remote
Desktop Connection (RDC) or by using the "allow desktop
composition" setting in a Remote Desktop Protocol (.rdp) file. In
addition, the client computer must have the necessary hardware to
support Windows Aero features.
Note Additional configuration might be necessary on the remote
computer to make Windows Aero features available for remote
desktop sessions. For example, the Desktop Experience feature
must be installed on the remote computer, and the maximum color
depth on the remote computer must be set to 32 bits per pixel. Also,
the Themes service must be started on the remote computer.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, desktop
composition is not allowed for remote desktop sessions, even if
desktop composition is enabled in RDC or in the .rdp file.
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