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
Determine Whether to Use Windows Media MMR Based on
Network Latency
By default, Windows Media MMR adapts to network conditions on single-user desktops that run on
Windows 8 or later and RDS desktops that run on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 or later. If the
network latency between Horizon Client and the remote desktop is 29 milliseconds or lower, the video is
redirected with Windows Media MMR. If the network latency is 30 milliseconds or higher, the video is not
redirected. Instead, it is rendered on the ESXi host and sent to the client over PCoIP.
This feature applies to Windows 8 or later single-user desktops and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 or
later RDS desktops. Users can run any supported client system, Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1.
This feature does not apply to Windows 7 single-user desktops or Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS
desktops. On these guest operating systems, Windows Media MMR always performs multimedia
redirection, regardless of network latency.
You can override this feature, forcing Windows Media MMR to perform multimedia redirection regardless
of the network latency, by configuring the RedirectionPolicy registry setting on the desktop.
Procedure
1 Start the Windows Registry Editor on the remote desktop.
2 Navigate to the Windows registry key that controls the redirection policy.
The registry key that you configure for a remote desktop depends on the bit version of the Windows
Media Player.
Option Description
64-bit Windows Media Player
n
For a 64-bit desktop, use the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware,Inc.\VMware tsmmr
32-bit Windows Media Player
n
For a 32-bit desktop, use the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware,Inc.\VMware tsmmr
n
For a 64-bit desktop, use the registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\VMware,Inc.\VMware tsm
mr
3 Set the RedirectionPolicy value to always.
Value name = RedirectionPolicy
Value Type = REG_SZ
Value data = always
4 Restart Windows Media Player on the desktop to allow the updated value to take effect.
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