Configuring Remote Desktop Features

Using Group Policy Settings to Configure Client-to-Agent
Redirection
The URL Content Redirection ADMX template file (urlRedirection.admx) contains group policy
settings that you can use to create rules that redirect URLs from the client to a remote desktop or
application (client-to-agent redirection).
Note The preferred method for configuring client-to-agent redirection is to use the vdmutil command-
line interface. Because GPOs are not supported by macOS, you cannot use GPOs to configure client-to-
agent configuration if you have Mac clients.
To create a rule for client-to-agent redirection, you use the remoteItem option to specify the display name
of a remote desktop or application pool and the agentRules option to specify the URLs that should be
redirected to the remote desktop or application. You must also use the brokerHostname option to specify
the IP address or fully qualified domain name of the Connection Server host to use when redirecting the
URLs to a remote desktop or application.
For example, for security purposes you might want all HTTP URLs that point to the company network to
be opened in a remote desktop or application. In this case, you might set the agentRules option
to .*.mycompany.com.
For URL Content Redirection template file installation instructions, see Add the URL Content Redirection
ADMX Template to a GPO.
URL Content Redirection Limitations
The behavior of the URL Content Redirection feature might have certain unexpected results.
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If the URL opens a country-specific page based on the locale, the source of the link determines the
locale page that is opened. For example, if the remote desktop (agent source) resides in a data
center in Japan and the user computer resides in the U.S., if the URL is redirected from the agent to
the client machine, the page that opens on the U.S. client is the Japanese page.
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If users create favorites from Web pages, the favorites are created after redirection. For example, if a
user clicks a link on the client machine and the URL is redirected to a remote desktop (agent), and
the user creates a favorite for that page, the favorite is created on the agent. The next time the user
opens the browser on the client machine, the user might expect to find the favorite on the client
machine, but the favorite was stored on the remote desktop (agent source).
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Files that users download appear on the machine where the browser was used to open the URL, for
example, when a user clicks a link on the client machine and the URL is redirected to a remote
desktop. If the link downloaded a file, or if the link is for a Web page where the user downloads a file,
the file is downloaded to the remote desktop rather than to the client machine.
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If you install Horizon Agent and Horizon Client on the same machine, you can enable URL Content
Redirection in Horizon Agent or in Horizon Client, but not in both. On this machine, you can set up
either client-to-agent redirection or agent-to-client redirection, but not both.
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