Configuring Remote Desktop Features

Example: Creating a Local URL Content Redirection Setting
The following example creates a local URL content redirection setting called url-filtering that
redirects all client URLs that include the text http://google.* to the application pool called
iexplore2012.
VdmUtil --createURLSetting --urlSettingName url-filtering --urlScheme http
--entitledApplication iexplore2012 --agentURLPattern "http://google.*"
--urlRedirectionScope LOCAL --authAs johndoe --authDomain mydomain --authPassword secret
The following example updates the url-filtering setting to also redirect all client URLs that contain the
text https://google.* to the application pool called iexplore2012.
vdmutil --updateURLSetting --urlSettingName url-filtering --urlScheme https
--entitledApplication iexplore2012 --agentURLPattern "https://google.*"
--urlRedirectionScope LOCAL --authAs johndoe --authDomain mydomain --authPassword secret
The following example updates the url-filtering setting to redirect all client URLs that contain the text
mailto://.*.mycompany.com to the application pool called Outlook2008.
vdmutil --updateURLSetting --urlSettingName url-filtering --urlScheme mailto
--entitledApplication Outlook2008 --agentURLPattern "mailto://.*.mycompany.com"
--urlRedirectionScope LOCAL --authAs johndoe --authDomain mydomain --authPassword secret
What to do next
Assign the URL content redirection setting to a user or group. See Assign a URL Content Redirection
Setting to a User or Group.
Create a Global URL Content Redirection Setting
If you have a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, you can create a global URL content redirection
setting that redirects specific URLs to open on a remote desktop or application in any pod in the pod
federation.
A global URL content redirection setting is visible across the pod federation. When you create a global
URL content redirection setting, you can redirect URLs to global resources, such as global desktop
entitlements and global application entitlements.
You can configure any number of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS, mailto, and callto.
As a best practice, configure the same redirection settings for the HTTP and HTTPS protocols. That way,
if a user types a partial URL into Internet Explorer, such as mycompany.com, and that site automatically
redirects from HTTP to HTTPS, the URL Content Redirection feature will work as expected. In this
example, if you set a rule for HTTPS but do not set the same redirection setting for HTTP, the partial URL
that the user types is not redirected.
For complete information about configuring and managing a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, see the
Administering Cloud Pod Architecture in Horizon 7 document.
Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7
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