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Table 3‑6. Horizon Client Configuration Administrative Template: RDP Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
Font smoothing
(Windows Vista or later) Determines whether anti-aliasing is applied to the fonts
on the remote desktop.
Menu and window animation
Determines whether animation for menus and windows is enabled when clients
connect to a remote desktop.
Redirect clipboard
Determines whether the local clipboard information is redirected when clients
connect to the remote desktop.
Redirect drives
Determines whether local disk drives are redirected when clients connect to the
remote desktop. By default, local drives are redirected.
Enabling this seing, or leaving it uncongured, allows data on the redirected
drive on the remote desktop to be copied to the drive on the client computer.
Disable this seing if allowing data to pass from the remote desktop to users' client
computers represents a potential security risk in your deployment. Another
approach is to disable folder redirection in the remote desktop virtual machine by
enabling the Microsoft Windows group policy seing, Do not allow drive
redirection.
The Redirect drives seing applies to RDP only.
Redirect printers
Determines whether local printers are redirected when clients connect to the
remote desktop.
Redirect serial ports
Determines whether local COM ports are redirected when clients connect to the
remote desktop.
Redirect smart cards
Determines whether local smart cards are redirected when clients connect to the
remote desktop.
N This seing applies to both RDP and PCoIP connections.
Redirect supported plug-and-
play devices
Determines whether local plug-and-play and point-of-sale devices are redirected
when clients connect to the remote desktop. This behavior is dierent from the
redirection that is managed by the USB Redirection component of the agent.
Shadow bitmaps
Determines whether bitmaps are shadowed. This seing has no eect in full-screen
mode.
Show contents of window
while dragging
Determines whether the folder contents appear when users drag a folder to a new
location.
Themes
Determines whether themes appear when clients connect to a remote desktop.
Windows key combination
redirection
Determines where Windows key combinations are applied.
This seing lets you send key combinations to the remote virtual machine or apply
key combinations locally.
If this seing is not congured, key combinations are applied locally.
Enable Credential Security
Service Provider
Species whether the remote desktop connection uses Network Level
Authentication (NLA). In Windows Vista, remote desktop connections require
NLA by default. If the guest operating system requires NLA for remote desktop
connections, you must enable this seing or Horizon Client will not be able to
connect to the remote desktop. In addition to enabling this seing, you must also
verify that the following conditions are met:
n
Both the client and guest operating systems support NLA.
n
Direct client connections are enabled for the Connection Server instance.
Tunneled connections are not supported with NLA.
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