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Table 8-8. View Client Configuration Administrative Template: RDP Settings (Continued)
Setting Description
Enable RDP Auto-Reconnect
Determines whether the RDP client component attempts to reconnect to
a View desktop after an RDP protocol connection failure. This setting has
no effect if the Use secure tunnel connection to desktop option is enabled
in View Administrator. This setting is disabled by default.
NOTE RDP auto-reconnection is supported for desktops running View
Agent version 4.5 or later only. If a desktop has an earlier version of View
Agent, some features will not work.
Font smoothing
(Windows Vista or later) Determines whether antialiasing is applied to
the fonts on the View desktop.
Menu and window animation
Determines whether animation for menus and windows is enabled when
clients connect to a View desktop.
Redirect clipboard
Determines whether the local clipboard information is redirected when
clients connect to the View desktop.
Redirect drives
Determines whether local disk drives are redirected when clients connect
to the View desktop. By default, local drives are redirected.
Enabling this setting, or leaving it unconfigured, allows data on the
redirected drive on the remote desktop to be copied to the drive on the
client computer. Disable this setting if allowing data to pass from the
remote desktop to users' client computers represents a potential security
risk in your deployment. Another approach is to disable folder
redirection in the remote desktop virtual machine by enabling the
Microsoft Windows group policy setting, Do not allow drive
redirection.
The Redirect drives setting applies to RDP only.
Redirect printers
Determines whether local printers are redirected when clients connect to
the View desktop.
Redirect serial ports
Determines whether local COM ports are redirected when clients connect
to the View desktop.
Redirect smart cards
Determines whether local smart cards are redirected when clients
connect to the View desktop.
NOTE This setting applies to both RDP and PCoIP connections.
Redirect supported plug-and-play
devices
Determines whether local plug-and-play and point-of-sale devices are
redirected when clients connect to the View desktop. This behavior is
different from the redirection that is managed by the USB Redirection
component of View Agent.
Shadow bitmaps
Determines whether bitmaps are shadowed. This setting has no effect in
full-screen mode.
Show contents of window while dragging
Determines whether the folder contents appear when users drag a folder
to a new location.
Themes
Determines whether themes appear when clients connect to a View
desktop.
Windows key combination redirection
Determines whether Windows key combinations are applied.
General Settings
Table 8-9 describes the general settings in the View Client Configuration ADM template file. General settings
include both Computer Configuration and User Configuration settings. The User Configuration setting
overrides the equivalent Computer Configuration setting.
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