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9 Restart Internet Explorer.
The site or sites are added. You can verify the trusted sites by selecting Tools > Internet Options from
the Internet Explorer menu bar, and on the Security tab, click the Sites button. You can verify
compatibility settings by selecting Tools > Compatibility View Settings from the menu bar.
Configuring URL Content Redirection
With URL Content Redirection, you can configure specific URLs to always open on the client or in a remote
desktop or application.
You can redirect two types of URLs:
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URLs that users type in Internet Explorer's address bar.
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Links in an application such as Outlook or Word that users can click.
You can configure any number of protocols, such as HTTP, mailto, and callto, for redirection. This feature
supports redirection in both directions:
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From a client to a remote desktop or application (client to agent)
Based on the rules that you set up, Horizon Client launches either a remote desktop or a remote
application to handle the URL. If a desktop is launched, the default application for the URL's protocol
processes the URL.
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From a remote desktop or application to a client (agent to client)
Horizon Agent sends the URL to Horizon Client, which launches the default application for the
protocol that is specified in the URL.
You can redirect some URLs from the remote desktop or application to the client and other URLs from the
client to the remote desktop or application.
NOTE You can have an environment where Horizon Client is installed on a remote desktop, which means
that both Horizon Agent and Horizon Client are installed on the same machine. For example, a user logs in
to a thin client device and is connected to a remote desktop. From the desktop, the user runs Horizon Client
to access remote applications. On this desktop machine, you can install Horizon Agent with the URL
Content Redirection feature or install Horizon Client with the feature, but not both. Therefore, on this
machine, you can set up either client-to-agent redirection or agent-to-client redirection, but not both.
To set up this feature, you must perform the following tasks:
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For client-to-agent redirection, install Horizon Client with the URL Content Redirection feature. See
“Installing the URL Content Redirection Feature,” on page 179.
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For agent-to-client redirection, install Horizon Agent with the URL Content Redirection feature. See
“Installing the URL Content Redirection Feature,” on page 179.
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Configure GPO settings to indicate, for each protocol, how Horizon Agent or Horizon Client should
redirect the URL. See “VMware Horizon URL Content Redirection Template Settings,” on page 180.
Feature Requirements
This feature has the following requirements:
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Horizon Client 4.0 or later.
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The supported browsers in which you can type or click a URL and have that URL redirected are
Internet Explorer 9,10, and 11.
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The display protocol for the remote session must be VMware Blast or PCoIP.
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