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Table 8-4. View Agent Configuration Template Settings
(Continued)
Setting Computer User Properties
Disable Time Zone
Synchronization
X X Determines whether the time zone of the View desktop is
synchronized with the time zone of the connected client.
An
enabled setting applies only if the Disable time zone
forwarding setting of the View Client Configuration
policy is not set to disabled.
This setting is disabled by default.
Enable multi-media
acceleration
X Determines whether multimedia redirection (MMR) is
enabled on the View desktop.
MMR is a Microsoft DirectShow filter that forwards
multimedia
data from specific codecs on the remote system
directly through a TCP socket to the client. The data is then
decoded directly on the client, where it is played. You can
disable MMR if the client has insufficient resources to
handle local multimedia decoding.
MMR does not work correctly if the View Client video
display hardware does not have overlay support. MMR
policy does not apply to local desktop sessions.
This setting is enabled by default.
Force MMR to use software
overlay
X Determines whether the multimedia redirection (MMR)
feature uses a software overlay instead of a hardware
overlay.
MMR uses video display hardware with overlay support
for better performance. Because hardware overlays
typically exist only on the primary monitor in a multi-
monitor system, video is not displayed when it is dragged
from the primary monitor to a secondary monitor.
Enabling this setting forces MMR to use a software overlay
on all monitors.
This setting is disabled by default.
ShowDiskActivityIcon
X This setting is not supported in this release.
Toggle Display Settings
Control
X Determines whether to disable the Settings tab in the
Display control panel when a client session uses the PCoIP
display protocol.
This setting is enabled by default.
USB Settings for the View Agent
You can define USB policy settings for both View Agent and View Client for Windows. On connection, View
Client
downloads the USB policy settings from View Agent and uses them in conjunction with the View Client
USB policy settings to decide which devices it will allow to be available for redirection from the client computer.
The settings apply at computer level. View Agent preferentially reads the settings from the GPO at computer
level, and otherwise from the registry at HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Agent\USB
Table 8-5 describes each policy setting for splitting composite USB devices in the View Agent Configuration
ADM template file. View Agent does not enforce these settings. View Agent passes the settings to View Client
for interpretation and enforcement according to whether you specify the merge (m) or override (o) modifier.
View Client uses the settings to decide whether to split composite USB devices into their component devices,
and whether to exclude the component devices from being available for redirection. For a description of how
View applies the policies for splitting composite USB devices, see “Configuring Device Splitting Policy Settings
for Composite USB Devices,” on page 199.
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