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(Optional) Create a default list of favorite applications by running the View Agent installer on a
command line directly on a virtual machine.
Use the following format.
VMware-viewagent-x86_x64-y.y.y-xxxxxx.exe /s /v"/qn UNITY_DEFAULT_APPS=""the list of default
favorite apps that should be set in the registry"""
NOTE The preceding command combines installing View Agent with specifying the default list of
favorite applications. You do not have to install View Agent before you run this command.
What to do next
If you performed this task directly on a virtual machine (by editing the Windows registry or installing View
Agent from the command line), you must deploy the newly configured virtual machine. You can create a
snapshot or make a template and create a desktop pool, or recompose an existing pool. Or you can create an
Active Directory group policy to deploy the new configuration.
Disable or Enable Unity Touch
When you install View Agent, the Unity Touch installation option is selected by default and the feature is
enabled. You can disable or reenable the Unity Touch feature on selected virtual machines by setting a value
on a Windows registry key on those machines.
You can use the registry to enable Unity Touch only if Unity Touch was installed by the View Agent
installer and then disabled through the registry. If Unity Touch was never installed, that is, if the option was
deselected when you installed View Agent, and you then set the registry value to enable Unity Touch,
certain Unity Touch functions will not work correctly.
Procedure
1 Start the Windows Registry Editor on the virtual machine.
2 Navigate to the Windows registry key that controls Unity Touch.
Option Description
Windows 7 64-bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\VMware,Inc.\VMware
Unity\enabled = value
Windows 7 32-bit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware,Inc.\VMware
Unity\enabled = value
3 Set the value to disable or enable Unity Touch.
Option Value
Disabled
0
Enabled
1
By default, the value is set to 1.
Configure Flash URL Redirection for Multicast or Unicast Streaming
Customers can now use Adobe Media Server and multicast or unicast to deliver live video events in a
virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment. To deliver multicast or unicast live video streams within a
VDI environment, the media stream should be sent directly from the media source to the endpoints,
bypassing the remote desktops. The Flash URL Redirection feature supports this capability by intercepting
and redirecting the ShockWave Flash (SWF) file from the remote desktop to the client endpoint.
The Flash content is then displayed using the clients' local Flash media players.
Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View
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