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Table 5‑3. Requirements for Specific Features
Feature Requirements
Windows Media MMR Requires View Agent 6.0.2 or later. To use the Windows Media MMR feature with RDS
desktops, you must have View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol, you must have Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
Serial port redirection Requires View Agent 6.1.1 or later. For Windows 10, requires View Agent 6.2 or later, or
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol, you must have Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
Virtual printing and location-
based printing for Windows
Server 2008 R2 desktops, RDS
desktops (on virtual machine
RDS hosts), and remote
applications
Requires Horizon 6.0.1 with View or later.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol for this feature, you must have
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
Scanner redirection Requires View Agent 6.0.2 or later. Requires the PCoIP display protocol. For Windows
10, requires View Agent 6.2 or later, or Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol, you must have Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
Client drive redirection For single-user virtual machine desktops and published desktops on RDS hosts, requires
View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol, you must have Horizon Agent 7.0 or later.
N You can also use Horizon Client to securely access remote Windows-based applications, in addition
to remote desktops. Selecting an application in Horizon Client opens a window for that application on the
local client device, and the application looks and behaves as if it were locally installed.
You can use remote applications only if you are connected to Connection Server 6.0 or later. For information
about which operating systems are supported for the RDS host, which provides published applications and
published desktops, see the View Installation document.
For descriptions of these features and their limitations, see the View Architecture Planning document.
Feature Support for Linux Desktops
Some Linux guest operating systems are supported if you have View Agent 6.1.1 or later, or Horizon Agent
7.0 or later. For a list of supported Linux operating systems and information about supported features, see
Seing Up Horizon 6 for Linux Desktops or Seing Up Virtual Desktops in Horizon 7.
Features Supported in Nested Mode
Nested mode is sometimes used for zero clients or thin clients, where, when the end user logs in to the zero
client, Horizon Client automatically starts and logs the user in to a remote desktop. From this remote
desktop, the user launches hosted applications.
In this setup, the remote desktop is either a single-user virtual machine desktop or a desktop provided by an
RDS host. In either case, to provide hosted applications, the Horizon Client software must be installed in the
remote desktop. This setup is called nested mode because the client connects to a desktop that also has the
client installed.
The following operating systems are supported when running Horizon Client in nested mode.
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Windows Server 2008 R2
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Windows Server 2012 R2
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Windows 7 Enterprise SP1
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Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1607
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