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
- Configuring Fingerprint Scanner Redirection
- Configuring Session Collaboration
- Configure Skype for Business
- Activate the BEAT Side Channel for USB, Windows Media Player MMR, 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
- Install and Enable the URL Content Redirection Helper Extension for Chrome on Windows
- Enable the URL Content Redirection Helper for Chrome on a Mac
- 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
- Session Collaboration Policy Settings
- Device Bridge BAS Plugin Policy 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
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
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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.
Managing Access to Client Drive Redirection
When you deploy Horizon Client and Horizon Agent with client drive redirection, folders and files are sent
across the network with encryption.
Client drive redirection connections between clients and the View Secure Gateway and connections from
the View Secure Gateway to desktop machines are secure. If VMware Blast is enabled, files and folders
are transferred across a virtual channel with encryption.
TCP connections on port 9427 are required to support client drive redirection. If your Horizon 7
deployment includes a back-end firewall between your DMZ-based security servers and your internal
network, the back-end firewall must allow traffic to port 9427 on your remote desktops. If VMware Blast is
enabled, TCP port 9427 is not required to be open because client drive redirection transfers data through
the virtual channel.
The Client Drive Redirection custom setup option in the Horizon Agent installer is selected by default.
As a best practice, enable the Client Drive Redirection custom setup option only in remote desktops
where users require this feature.
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