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You can connect USB devices to a remote desktop either manually or automatically.
N Do not redirect USB devices such as USB Ethernet devices and touch screen devices to the remote
desktop. If you redirect a USB Ethernet device, your client system loses network connectivity. If you redirect
a touch screen device, the remote desktop receives touch input but not keyboard input. If you have set your
virtual desktop to autoconnect USB devices, you can congure a policy to exclude specic devices. See the
topic "Conguring Filter Policy Seings for USB Devices" in the Seing Up Desktop and Application Pools in
View document.
I This procedure tells how to use a VMware Horizon Client menu item to congure
autoconnecting USB devices to a remote desktop. You can also congure autoconnecting by using the
Horizon Client command-line interface or by creating a group policy.
For more information about the command-line interface, see “Running Horizon Client from the Command
Line,” on page 57. For more information about creating group policies, see the Seing Up Desktop and
Application Pools in View document.
Prerequisites
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To use USB devices with a remote desktop, a View administrator must have enabled the USB feature for
the remote desktop.
This task includes installing the USB Redirection component of the agent, and can include seing
policies regarding USB redirection. For more information, see the View Administration document if you
are using Connection Server and Agent 5.3.x. See Seing Up Desktop and Application Pools in View if you
are using Connection Server and Agent 6.0 or later.
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When Horizon Client was installed, the USB Redirection component must have been installed. If you
did not include this component in the installation, uninstall the client and run the installer again to
include the USB Redirection component.
Procedure
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Manually connect the USB device to a remote desktop.
a Connect the USB device to your local client system.
b From the VMware Horizon Client menu bar, click Connect USB Device.
c Select the USB device.
The device is manually redirected from the local system to the remote desktop.
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Connect the USB device to a remote hosted application.
a In the desktop and application selector window, open the remote application.
The name of the application is the name that your administrator has congured for the application.
b In the desktop and application selector window, right-click the application icon and select .
c In the left pane, select USB Devices.
d In the right pane, select the USB device and click Connect.
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