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Select a Default Microphone on a Windows Client System
If you have multiple microphones on your client system, only one of them is used on your View desktop. To
specify which microphone is the default, you can use the Sound control on your client system.
With the Real-Time Audio-Video feature, audio input devices and audio output devices work without
requiring the use of USB redirection, and the amount of network bandwidth required is greatly reduced.
Analog audio input devices are also supported.
IMPORTANT If you are using a USB microphone, do not connect it from the Connect USB Device menu in
Horizon Client. To do so routes the device through USB redirection so that the device cannot use the Real-
Time Audio-Video feature.
Prerequisites
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Verify that you have a USB microphone or another type of microphone installed and operational on
your client system.
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Verify that you are using the PCoIP display protocol for your remote desktop.
Procedure
1 If you are currently on a call, stop the call.
2 Right-click the speaker icon in your system tray and select Recording devices.
You can alternatively open the Sound control from the Control Panel and click the Recording tab.
3 In the Recording tab of the Sound dialog box, right-click the microphone you prefer to use.
4 Select Set as Default Device and click OK.
5 Start a new call from your View desktop.
Copying and Pasting Text and Images
By default, you can copy and paste text from your client system to a remote desktop or application. If your
administrator enables the feature, you can also copy and paste text from a remote desktop or application to
your client system or between two remote desktops or applications. Some restrictions apply.
If you use the PCoIP display protocol and you are using a View 5.x or later remote desktop, your View
administrator can set this feature so that copy and paste operations are allowed only from your client
system to a remote desktop, or only from a remote desktop to your client system, or both, or neither. If you
are using a Horizon 6.0 with View remote application, the same rules apply.
Administrators configure the ability to copy and paste by using group policy objects (GPOs) that pertain to
View Agent in remote desktops or applications. For more information, see the topic about View PCoIP
general session variables, which includes the setting called Configure clipboard redirection in the Setting
Up Desktop and Application Pools for View document, in the chapter about configuring policies.
Supported file formats include text, images, and RTF (Rich Text Format). The clipboard can accommodate
1MB of data for copy and paste operations. If you are copying formatted text, some of the data is text and
some of the data is formatting information. For example, an 800KB document might use more than 1MB of
data when it is copied because more than 200KB of RTF data might get put in the clipboard.
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 of the plain text but no formatting or image. The reason is that the three
types of data are 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.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows
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