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.
Setting Policies in View Administrator Using Smart Policies Smart Policies to create policies that control the behavior of the USB redirection, virtual printing, clipboard redirection, client drive redirection, and PCoIP display protocol features on specific remote desktops. Using Active Directory Group Policies View components, and to configure location-based printing. Using View Group Policy Administrative Template Files View provides several component-specific Group Policy Administrative (ADM and ADMX) template files. You can optimize and secure remote desktops and applications by adding the policy settings in these ADM and ADMX template files to a new or existing GPO in Active Directory. View ADM and ADMX Template Files View ADM and ADMX template files provide group policy settings that let you control and optimize View components. Horizon Agent Configuration ADM Template Settings Horizon Agent Configuration ADM template file (vdm_agent.adm ) contains policy settings related to the authentication and environmental components of Horizon Agent . PCoIP Policy Settings pcoip.adm) contains policy settings related to the PCoIP display protocol. You can configure settings to default values that can be overridden by an administrator, or you can configure settings to non-overridable values. VMware Blast Policy Settings vdm_blast.adm contains policy settings for the VMware Blast display protocol. After the policy is applied, the settings are stored in the registry key HKLM\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\config . Using Remote Desktop Services Group Policies View provides ADMX files that contain the Microsoft RDS group policies that are supported in View . Setting Up Location-Based Printing Active Directory Group Policy Example View is to create an OU for the View machines that deliver remote desktop sessions and link one or more GPOs to that OU. You can use these GPOs to apply group policy settings to your View machines.
