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
Collect Logs to Troubleshoot Skype for Business
To troubleshoot Skype for Business, collect logs from the Horizon Agent and the Windows Horizon Client.
Procedure
1 To collect Horizon logs, including the Media Proxy logs, from the Horizon Agent, log into a virtual
machine where Horizon Agent is installed.
2 Open a command prompt, and run C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware
View\Agent\DCT\support.bat
3 To collect Horizon logs, including the Media Provider logs, from the Horizon Client, log into a physical
or a virtual machine where Horizon Client is installed.
4 Open a command prompt, and run:
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32-bit: C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\DCT\support.bat
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64-bit: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Horizon View Client\DCT\support.bat
A folder vdm-sdct containing zipped log files appears on the desktop and will include these directories
which contain logs for the VMware Horizon Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business:
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Client device: %TEMP%\vmware-<username>\VMWMediaProvider
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Virtual desktop:
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%TEMP%\vmware-<username>\VMWMediaProviderProxy
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%TEMP%\vmware-<username>\VMWMediaProviderProxyLocal
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%TEMP%\vmware-<username>\MMAPlugin
The default log level is 7, where the log level size and crash dumps are small. You can increase the log
level to 8 for maximum logs and full crash dumps. All settings are DWORD:
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Client: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/VMware,
Inc./VMWMediaProvider/DebugLogging/LoggingPriority = 8
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Agent: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/VMware,
Inc./VMWMediaProviderProxy/DebugLogging/LoggingPriority = 8
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Agent: HKEY_CURRENT_USER/SOFTWARE/VMware,
Inc./VMWMediaProviderProxyLocal/DebugLogging/LoggingPriority = 8
Activate the BEAT Side Channel for USB, Windows Media
Player MMR, or Client Drive Redirection
With the VMware Blast display protocol, you can configure USB redirection, Windows Media Player
Multimedia Redirection (MMR), and client drive redirection features to send side channel traffic over a
Blast Extreme Adaptive Transport (BEAT) connection rather than through the VMware Virtual Channel
(VVC) or TCP side channel.
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