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
Install and Configure HTML5 Multimedia Redirection
Redirecting HTML5 multimedia content from a remote desktop to the local client system requires installing
the HTML5 Multimedia Redirection feature and Chrome browser on the remote desktop, enabling the
HTML5 Multimedia Redirection feature, and specifying which websites use this feature.
To enable HTML5 Multimedia Redirection and specify which websites use this feature, you configure
group policy settings on your Active Directory server. You must compile a list of URLs for the websites
that can redirect HTML5 multimedia content. Include the http:// or https:// prefix in the URLs. You
can use match patterns in the URLs. For example, to redirect all videos on YouTube, specify
https://www.youtube.com/*. To redirect all videos on Vimeo, specify https://www.vimeo.com/*. For
more information, see https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/match_patterns.
Prerequisites
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Install Horizon Client on the client system and install Horizon Agent on the remote desktop with the
HTML5 Multimedia Redirection feature enabled. For required versions, setup options, and complete
system requirements, see System Requirements for HTML5 Multimedia Redirection.
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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 Object Editor snap-in are available on your Active Directory
server.
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Add the Horizon Agent Configuration ADMX template file vdm_agent.admx to a GPO that is linked to
the OU for the virtual desktop or to the RDS host for the published desktop. For installation
instructions, see Add the ADMX Template Files to Active Directory.
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Compile a list of URLs for websites that can redirect HTML5 multimedia content.
Procedure
1 Install the Chrome browser on the remote desktop.
2 On your Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Editor and navigate to the
Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > VMware View Agent
Configuration > VMware HTML5 Multimedia Redirection folder.
3 Open the Enable VMware HTML5 Multimedia Redirection setting, select Enabled, and click OK.
4 Open the Enable URL list for VMware HTML5 Multimedia Redirection setting and select Enabled.
5 Click Show and enter the URLs that you compiled in the Value name column.
Only the URLs that you specify can redirect HTML5 multimedia content. No URLs are added by
default. Leave the Value column blank.
6 Click OK to save the URL list and then click OK to save the policy setting.
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