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Configuring Policies for Desktop and
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You can configure policies to control the behavior of desktop and application pools, machines, and users.
You use View Administrator to set policies for client sessions. You can use Active Directory group policy
settings to control the behavior of Horizon Agent, Horizon Client for Windows, and features that affect
single-user machines, RDS hosts, PCoIP, or VMware Blast.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Setting Policies in View Administrator,” on page 255
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“Using Smart Policies,” on page 257
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“Using Active Directory Group Policies,” on page 263
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“Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files,” on page 264
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“View ADM and ADMX Template Files,” on page 264
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“Horizon Agent Configuration ADM Template Settings,” on page 266
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“PCoIP Policy Settings,” on page 271
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“VMware Blast Policy Settings,” on page 282
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“Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies,” on page 283
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“Setting Up Location-Based Printing,” on page 292
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“Active Directory Group Policy Example,” on page 297
Setting Policies in View Administrator
You use View Administrator to configure policies for client sessions.
You can set these policies to affect specific users, specific desktop pools, or all client sessions users. Policies
that affect specific users and desktop pools are called user-level policies and desktop pool-level policies.
Policies that affect all sessions and users are called global policies.
User-level policies inherit settings from the equivalent desktop pool-level policy settings. Similarly, desktop
pool-level policies inherit settings from the equivalent global policy settings. A desktop pool-level policy
setting takes precedence over the equivalent global policy setting. A user-level policy setting takes
precedence over the equivalent global and desktop pool-level policy settings.
Lower-level policy settings can be more or less restrictive than the equivalent higher-level settings. For
example, you can set a global policy to Deny and the equivalent desktop pool-level policy to Allow, or vice
versa.
NOTE Only global policies are available for RDS desktop and application pools. You cannot set user-level
policies or pool-level policies for RDS desktop and application pools.
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