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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 8 Component Policies
Client Policies
ThepropertiesprovidedunderthepoliciestabinViewAdministratorareusedtoassert
behavioralcontrolov erclientcomponentsattheglobal,desktoppool,ordesktopuser
level.Bydefault,eachuser‐levelpolicyinheritsitssettingfromapool‐lev elpolicythat,
inturn,inheritsitssettingfromaglobalpolicy
.
Anumberofgeneralcomponentbehaviorsrelatingtodesktopsessionscanbe
configureddirectlyfromwithinViewAdministrator.Thesepoliciescanapplytoboth
ViewClientandViewClientwithOfflineDesktopandaredescribedinTable 8‐6.
Table 8-6. Client Policies
Property Description
USBAccess SpecifiesifdesktopscanuseUSBdevicesconnectedtotheclientsystem.
Administratorscanpreventuseofexternaldevicesasasecuritymeasure.
AvailableoptionsareAllowandDeny.Pool‐anduser‐levelpoliciesmayalso
Inheritthedefaultsettingfromtheirparent.
ThedefaultisAllow.
MMR Specifiesifmulti
mediaredirection(MMR)isenabledontheclient.MMRisa
MicrosoftDirectShowfilterthatforwardsmultimediadatafromspecificcodecs
ontheremotesystemdirectlythroughaTCPsockettotheclient.Thedatais
thendecodeddirectlyontheclient,whereitisplayed.
AdministratorscandisableMMRifth
eclienthasinsufficientresourcesto
handlelocalmultimediadecoding.
AvailableoptionsareAllowandDeny.Pool‐anduser‐levelpoliciesmayalso
Inherittheirdefaultsettingsfromtheirparent.
Note:MMRwillnotworkcorrectlyiftheclientvideodisplayhardwaredoesnot
haveoverlaysupport.MMRpolicydoesnotapplytoOf
flineDesktopsessions.
ThedefaultisAllow.