6.0.2

Group Policy
Setting Description
Hide Webcam Prevents webcams from appearing in the scanner selection menu in the VMware Horizon Scanner
Redirection Preferences dialog box.
This setting is available as a Computer Configuration and User Configuration policy.
By default, webcams can be redirected to desktops and applications. Users can select webcams and use
them as virtual scanners to capture images.
When you enable this setting as a Computer Configuration policy, webcams are hidden from all users
of the affected computers. Users cannot change the Hide Webcam option in the VMware Horizon
Scanner Redirection Preferences dialog box.
When you enable this setting as a User Configuration policy, webcams are hidden from all affected
users. However, users can change the Hide Webcam option in the VMware Horizon Scanner
Redirection Preferences dialog box.
When you enable this setting in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration, the Hide
Webcam setting in Computer Configuration overrides the corresponding policy setting in User
Configuration for all users of the affected computers.
When you disable this setting or do not configure it in either policy configuration, the Hide Webcam
setting is determined by the corresponding policy setting (either User Configuration or Computer
Configuration) or by user selection in the VMware Horizon Scanner Redirection Preferences dialog box.
Default
Scanner
Provides centralized management of scanner autoselection.
This setting is available as a Computer Configuration and User Configuration policy.
You select scanner autoselection options separately for TWAIN and WIA scanners. You can choose
from the following autoselection options:
n
None. Do not select scanners automatically.
n
Autoselect Automatically select the locally connected scanner.
n
Last used Automatically select the last-used scanner.
n
Specified Select the scanner name that you type in the Specified scanner text box.
When you enable this setting as a Computer Configuration policy, the setting determines the scanner
autoselection mode for all users of the affected computers. Users cannot change the Default Scanner
option in the VMware Horizon Scanner Redirection Preferences dialog box.
When you enable this setting as a User Configuration policy, the setting determines the scanner
autoselection mode for all affected users. However, users can change the Default Scanner option in the
VMware Horizon Scanner Redirection Preferences dialog box.
When you enable this setting in both Computer Configuration and User Configuration, the scanner
autoselection mode in Computer Configuration overrides the corresponding policy setting in User
Configuration for all users of the affected computers.
When you disable this setting or do not configure it in either policy configuration, the scanner
autoselection mode is determined by the corresponding policy setting (either User Configuration or
Computer Configuration) or by user selection in the VMware Horizon Scanner Redirection Preferences
dialog box.
Managing Access to Windows Media Multimedia Redirection (MMR)
In Horizon 6.0.2 and later, View provides the Windows Media MMR feature for Windows 7 and Windows
8/8.1 desktops and clients, and the Wyse MMR feature for Windows XP and Windows Vista desktops.
In Horizon 6.0.1 and earlier, View provides the Win7 MMR feature for Windows 7 desktops and clients, and
the Wyse MMR feature for Windows XP and Windows Vista desktops.
MMR delivers the multimedia stream directly to client computers. With MMR, the multimedia stream is
processed, that is, decoded, on the client system. The client system plays the media content, thereby
offloading the demand on the ESXi host.
MMR data is sent across the network without application-based encryption and might contain sensitive
data, depending on the content being redirected. To ensure that this data cannot be monitored on the
network, use MMR only on a secure network.
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