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
After you install Horizon Agent and set up the serial port redirection feature, the feature can work on your
remote desktops without further configuration. For example, COM1 on the local client system is redirected
as COM1 on the remote desktop, and COM2 is redirected as COM2, unless a COM port already exists on
the remote desktop. If so, the COM port is mapped to avoid conflicts. For example, if COM1 and COM2
already exist on the remote desktop, COM1 on the client is mapped to COM3 by default. You do not have
to configure the COM ports or install device drivers on the remote desktops.
To make a redirected COM port active, a user selects the Connect option from the menu on the serial
port tool tray icon during a desktop session. A user can also set a COM port device to connect
automatically whenever the user logs in to the remote desktop. See User Operation of Serial Port
Redirection.
You can configure group policy settings to change the default configuration. For example, you can lock
the settings so that users cannot change the COM port mappings or properties. You can also set a policy
to disable or enable the feature altogether. With an ADMX template file, you can install serial port
redirection group policy settings in Active Directory or on individual desktops. See Configuring Serial Port
Redirection Group Policy Settings.
When a redirected COM port is opened and in use on a remote desktop, you cannot access the port on
the local computer. Conversely, when a COM port is in use on the local computer, you cannot access the
port on the remote desktop.
System Requirements for Serial Port Redirection
With this feature, end users can redirect locally connected, serial (COM) ports, such as built-in RS232
ports or USB to Serial adapters, to their remote desktops. To support serial port redirection, your Horizon
deployment must meet certain software and hardware requirements.
Remote desktops
The remote desktops must have View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or Horizon Agent
7.0 or later, installed with the Serial Port Redirection setup option, on the
parent or template virtual machines. This setup option is deselected by
default.
The following guest operating systems are supported on single-session
virtual machines:
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32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7
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32-bit or 64-bit Windows 8.x
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32-bit or 64-bit Windows 10
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Windows Server 2008 R2 configured as a desktop
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Windows Server 2012 R2 configured as a desktop
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Windows Server 2016 configured as a desktop
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