Installation and Setup Guide

Table 6‑1. Configuration Properties for USB Redirection (Continued)
Policy Name and Property Description
Include Path
Property:
viewusb.IncludePath
Include devices at a specified hub or port paths that can be redirected. The format
of the setting is bus-x1[/y1]..._port-z1[;bus-x2[/y2]..._port-z2]...
You must specify bus and port numbers in hexadecimal. You cannot use the
wildcard character in paths.
For example: bus-1/2_port-02;bus-1/7/1/4_port-0f
The default value is undefined.
Include Vid/Pid Device
Property:
viewusb.IncludeVidPid
Includes devices with specified vendor and product IDs that can be redirected. The
format of the setting is vid-xxx1_pid-yyy2[;vid-xxx2_pid-yyy2]...
You must specify ID numbers in hexadecimal. You can use the wildcard character
(*) in place of individual digits in an ID.
For example: vid-0561_pid-554c
The default value is undefined.
USB Redirection Examples
Each example is followed by a description of the effect on USB redirection.
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Include most devices within mouse device family.
viewusb.IncludeFamily = "mouse"
viewusb.ExcludeVidPid = "Vid-0461_Pid-0010;Vid-0461_Pid-4d20"
The first property in this example tells Horizon Client to allow mouse devices to be redirected to a
View desktop. The second property overrides the first and tells Horizon Client to keep two specific
mouse devices local and not redirect them.
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Turn on automatic device splitting, but exclude one particular device from splitting. For another
particular device, keep one of its components local and redirect the other components to the remote
desktop:
viewusb.AllowAutoDeviceSplitting = "True"
viewusb.SplitExcludeVidPid = "Vid-03f0_Pid-2a12"
viewusb.SplitVidPid = "Vid-0911_Pid-149a(exintf:03)"
viewusb.IncludeVidPid = "Vid-0911_Pid-149a"
Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more devices, such as a video input
device and a storage device. The first property in this example turns on automatic splitting of
composite devices. The second property excludes the specified composite USB device
(Vid-03f0_Pid-2a12) from splitting.
The third line tells Horizon Client to treat the components of a different composite device
(Vid-0911_Pid-149a) as separate devices but to exclude the following component from being
redirected: the component whose interface number is 03. This component is kept local.
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