Installation and Setup Guide

Multitasking
You can switch between Horizon Client and other apps without losing a remote desktop or application
connection.
You can resize the Horizon Client app so that it takes up part of the screen alongside another app.
If you leave a session idle for some amount of time, before the session times out, you receive a prompt,
asking if you want to keep the session alive. Tap or click anywhere on the screen or press a key on your
keyboard to keep the session alive. If enough time has passed so that the connection to the remote
desktop or application was lost, Horizon Client returns to the desktop and application selection window
and prompts you to reconnect.
Using Horizon Client with a Microsoft Display Dock
The VMware Horizon Client app works with Continuum for Windows 10 Mobile. You can use a Microsoft
Display Dock to connect your Windows 10 smartphone to an external display and mouse. With this
feature, you can use Horizon Client just as you would use it on a desktop PC.
Copying and Pasting Text and Images
By default, you can copy and paste text from the local client system to a remote desktop or application. If
a Horizon administrator enables the feature, you can also copy and paste text from a remote desktop or
application to the client system or between two remote desktops or applications.
You can copy and paste plain text only. Images and RTF (Rich Text Format) are not supported.
A Horizon administrator can configure this feature so that copy and paste operations are allowed only
from the client system to a remote desktop or application, or only from a remote desktop or application to
the client system, or both, or neither.
A Horizon administrator can configure the ability to copy and paste by configuring group policy settings
that pertain to Horizon Agent. Depending on the Horizon server and agent version, an administrator might
also be able to use group policies to restrict clipboard formats during copy and paste operations or use
Smart Policies to control the copy and paste behavior in remote desktops. For more information, see the
Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.
The clipboard can accommodate 64 K of data for copy and paste operations. If you try to copy more than
the maximum clipboard size, the text is truncated.
You cannot copy and paste files between a remote desktop and the file system on the local client
computer.
Saving Documents in a Published Application
With certain published applications, such as Microsoft Word or WordPad, you can create and save
documents. Where these documents are saved depends on your company's network environment. For
example, your documents might be saved to a home share mounted on your local computer.
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