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Table 3‑6. Horizon Client Configuration Administrative Template: RDP Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
Cursor shadow
Determines whether a shadow appears under the cursor on the remote desktop.
Desktop background
Determines whether the desktop background appears when clients connect to a
remote desktop.
Desktop composition
(Windows Vista or later) Determines whether desktop composition is enabled on
the remote desktop.
When desktop composition is enabled, individual windows no longer draw
directly to the screen or primary display device as they did in previous versions of
Microsoft Windows. Instead, drawing is redirected to off-screen surfaces in video
memory, which are then rendered into a desktop image and presented on the
display.
Enable compression
Determines whether RDP data is compressed. This setting is enabled by default.
Enable Credential Security
Service Provider
Specifies 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 setting or Horizon Client will not be able to connect to the
desktop.
In addition to enabling this setting, 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 View Connection Server instance.
Tunneled connections are not supported with NLA.
Enable RDP Auto-Reconnect
Determines whether the RDP client component attempts to reconnect to a remote
desktop after an RDP protocol connection failure. This setting has no effect if the
Use secure tunnel connection to desktop option is enabled in View Administrator.
This setting is disabled by default.
NOTE RDP auto-reconnection is supported for desktops running View Agent
version 4.5 or later only. If a desktop has an earlier version of View Agent, some
features will not work.
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 setting, or leaving it unconfigured, allows data on the redirected
drive on the remote desktop to be copied to the drive on the client computer.
Disable this setting 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 setting, Do not allow drive
redirection.
The Redirect drives setting 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.
NOTE This setting applies to both RDP and PCoIP connections.
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