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
Filtering Printers for Virtual Printing
When the virtual printing feature is enabled, users can print to any printer available on their client systems
from their remote desktops and applications. You can use the Specify a filter in redirecting client
printers agent group policy setting to prevent the virtual printing feature from redirecting specific client
printers to remote desktops and applications.
The Specify a filter in redirecting client printers group policy setting is provided in the VMware Horizon
Printer Redirection ADMX template file (vdm_agent_printing.admx), which is bundled in the VMware-
Horizon-Extras-Bundle-x.x.x-yyyyyy.zip file. For installation instructions, see Add the ADMX
Template Files to Active Directory.
When you enable the Specify a filter in redirecting client printers group policy setting, you must type a
filtering rule in the Registry value name: PrinterFilterString text box. The filtering rule is a regular
expression that specifies the printers that should not be redirected (a black list). Any printer that does not
match the printers in the filtering rule is redirected. By default, the filtering rule is empty, which means that
all client printers are redirected.
The following table lists the attributes, operators, and wildcards that you can use in filtering rules.
Table 5‑25. Supported Attributes, Operators, and Wildcards for Filtering Rules
Attributes Operators Wildcards
DriverName, VendorName, and PrinterName AND, OR, and NOT * and ?
Following are several examples of filtering rules.
(DriverName="DrName1" OR VendorName="VeName1") AND NOT PrinterName="PrNa.?e"
PrinterName=".*HP.*" OR PrinterName=".*EPSON.*" AND DriverName="PDF"
PrinterName!=".*PDFCreator.*"
You enable the virtual printing feature when you install Horizon Agent on a virtual desktop or RDS host.
For installation instructions, see the Setting Up Virtual Desktops in Horizon 7 and Setting Up Published
Desktops and Applications in Horizon 7 documents.
Setting Up Location-Based Printing
The location-based printing feature maps printers that are physically near client systems to remote
desktops, enabling users to print to their local and network printers from their remote desktops.
Location-based printing allows IT organizations to map remote desktops to the printer that is closest to
the endpoint client device. For example, as a doctor moves from room to room in a hospital, each time
the doctor prints a document, the print job is sent to the nearest printer.
The location-based printing feature is available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and mobile client devices.
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