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What to do next
If you performed this task directly on a virtual machine (by editing the Windows registry or installing the
Remote Experience 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 Horizon View 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 the Remote Experience 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 desktops
by setting a value on a Windows registry key on those desktops.
You can use the registry to enable Unity Touch only if Unity Touch was installed by the Remote Experience
Agent installer and then disabled through the registry. If Unity Touch was never installed, that is, if the
option was deselected when you installed the Remote Experience 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 desktop.
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 virtual desktops. The Flash URL Redirection feature supports this capability by intercepting
and redirecting the ShockWave Flash (SWF) file from the virtual desktop to the client endpoint.
The Flash URL redirection feature uses a JavaScript that is embedded inside an HTML Web page by the
Web page administrator. Whenever a virtual desktop user clicks on the designated URL link from within a
Web page, the JavaScript intercepts and redirects the SWF file from the virtual desktop session to the client
endpoint. The endpoint then opens a local Flash Projector outside of the virtual desktop session and plays
the media stream locally.
To configure Flash URL Redirection, you must set up your HTML Web page and your client devices.
Procedure
1 Verify that the Flash URL Redirection Feature Is Installed on page 29
Before you use this feature, verify that the Remote Experience Agent with the Flash URL Redirection
option is installed and running on your virtual desktops.
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