Installation and Setup Guide

Supported file formats include text, images, and RTF (Rich Text Format). Some restrictions apply.
If you use the VMware Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display protocol, a Horizon administrator can
set 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.
If you are connected to a Horizon 7 version 7.0 or earlier server, the clipboard can accommodate 1 MB of
data for copy and paste operations. If you are connected to a Horizon 7 version 7.0.1 or later server, the
clipboard memory size is configurable for both the server and the client. When a PCoIP or VMware Blast
session is established, the server sends its clipboard memory size to the client. The effective clipboard
memory size is the lesser of the server and client clipboard memory size values.
If you are copying formatted text, some of the data is text and some of the data is formatting information.
If you copy a large amount of formatted text or text and an image, when you attempt to paste the text and
image, you might see some or all the plain text but no formatting or image. The reason is that the three
types of data is sometimes stored separately. For example, depending on the type of document you are
copying from, images might be stored as images or as RTF data.
If the text and RTF data together use less than maximum clipboard size, the formatted text is pasted.
Often the RTF data cannot be truncated, so that if the text and formatting use more than the maximum
clipboard size amount, the RTF data is discarded, and plain text is pasted.
If you are unable to paste all the formatted text and images you selected in one operation, you might
need to copy and paste smaller amounts in each operation.
You cannot copy and paste files between a remote desktop and the file system on the local client
computer.
Configuring the Client Clipboard Memory Size
In Horizon 7 version 7.0.1 and later and Horizon Client 4.1 and later, the clipboard memory size is
configurable for both the server and the client.
When a PCoIP or VMware Blast session is established, the server sends its clipboard memory size to the
client. The effective clipboard memory size is the lesser of the server and client clipboard memory size
values.
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