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Configuring Policies in Horizon
Administrator and Active
Directory 7
You can use Horizon Administrator to set policies for client sessions. You can configure Active Directory
group policy settings to control the behavior of View Connection Server, the PCoIP display protocol, and
Horizon 7 logging and performance alarms.
You can also configure Active Directory group policy settings to control the behavior of Horizon Agent,
Horizon Client for Windows, Horizon Persona Management, and certain features. For information about
these policy settings, see the Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Setting Policies in Horizon Administrator
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Using Horizon 7 Group Policy Administrative Template Files
Setting Policies in Horizon Administrator
You use Horizon Administrator to configure policies for client sessions.
You can set these policies to affect specific users, specific desktop pools, or all client sessions users.
Policies that affect specific users and desktop pools are called user-level policies and desktop pool-level
policies. Policies that affect all sessions and users are called global policies.
User-level policies inherit settings from the equivalent desktop pool-level policy settings. Similarly,
desktop pool-level policies inherit settings from the equivalent global policy settings. A desktop pool-level
policy setting takes precedence over the equivalent global policy setting. A user-level policy setting takes
precedence over the equivalent global and desktop pool-level policy settings.
Lower-level policy settings can be more or less restrictive than the equivalent higher-level settings. For
example, you can set a global policy to Deny and the equivalent desktop pool-level policy to Allow, or
vice versa.
Note Only global policies are available for RDS desktop and application pools. You cannot set user-level
policies or pool-level policies for RDS desktop and application pools.
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Configure Global Policy Settings
You can configure global policies to control the behavior of all client sessions users.
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