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
Configuring Client-to-Agent Redirection
With client-to-agent redirection, Horizon Client opens a remote desktop or application to handle a URL
link that a user clicks on the client. If a remote desktop is opened, the default application for the protocol
in the URL processes the URL. If a remote application is opened, the application processes the URL.
To use client-to-agent redirection, perform the following configuration tasks.
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Enable the URL Content Redirection feature in Horizon Agent. See Installing Horizon Agent with the
URL Content Redirection Feature.
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(Windows clients only) Enable the URL Content Redirection feature in Horizon Client for Windows.
See Installing Horizon Client for Windows with the URL Content Redirection Feature.
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Use the vdmutil command-line utility to create a URL content redirection setting that indicates, for
each protocol, how Horizon Client should redirect the URLs. See Create a Local URL Content
Redirection Setting or Create a Global URL Content Redirection Setting.
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Use the vdmutil command-line utility to assign the URL content redirection setting to Active
Directory users or groups. See Assign a URL Content Redirection Setting to a User or Group.
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Verify the URL content redirection setting. See Test a URL Content Redirection Setting.
Note You can use group policy settings to configure client-to-agent redirection rules, but using the
vdmutil command-line utility is the preferred method. For information about using group policy settings,
see Using Group Policy Settings to Configure Client-to-Agent Redirection. For Mac clients, you must use
vdmutil to configure client-to-agent redirection. Because GPOs are not supported by macOS, you
cannot use group policy settings to configure client-to-agent configuration if you have Mac clients.
Installing Horizon Client for Windows with the URL Content
Redirection Feature
To use URL Content Redirection from a Windows client to a remote desktop or application (client-to-agent
redirection), you must install Horizon Client for Windows with the URL Content Redirection feature.
To enable the URL Content Redirection feature, you must use the Horizon Client for Windows installer
with a command-line option. Instead of double-clicking the installer file, start the installation by running the
following command in a command prompt window:
VMware-Horizon-Client-x86-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /v URL_FILTERING_ENABLED=1
To verify that the feature is installed, make sure that the vmware-url-protocol-launch-helper.exe
and vmware-url-filtering-plugin.dll files are in the %PROGRAMFILES%\VMware\VMware Horizon
View Client directory. Also, verify that the VMware Horizon View URL Filtering Plugin Internet Explorer
add-on is installed.
Note Horizon Client 4.4 for Mac supports client-to-agent redirection by default. No extra installation
steps are required. Horizon Client 4.2 and 4.3 for Mac do not support client-to-agent redirection.
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