Your environment supports using VMware Horizon smart policies to control the end users' virtual desktops. These smart policies provide policy-driven control over the behavior of features such as USB redirection, virtual printing, clipboard redirection, client drive redirection, and PCoIP display protocol features on the virtual desktops. By using these smart policies, you can have policies that take effect only if certain conditions are met. For example, you can configure a policy that deactivates the client drive redirection feature if a user connects to a remote desktop from outside your corporate network.

For a detailed description of VMware Horizon smart policies and instructions on how to use them, see Using Smart Policies in the VMware Horizon documentation or the VMware Horizon smart policies information in the VMware Horizon document titled Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7.

These smart policies require use of Dynamic Environment Manager agent software, which is installed using the Horizon Agent Installer. You must download the most recent version of Horizon Agent Installer from the VMware Downloads page. For Dynamic Environment Manager system requirements and complete installation instructions, see the Dynamic Environment Manager product documentation.

After you have completed installation and configuration of Dynamic Environment Manager and its Management Console as described in the previously mentioned documents, to configure a smart policy on your template VM, you need to perform the following steps on that VM.

  • If you have not done so already, run the Horizon Agent Installer and install the Dynamic Environment Manager agent. The Dynamic Environment Manager FlexEngine client is installed with that agent component.
  • Define the VMware Horizon smart policy using the Dynamic Environment Manager Management Console.

    For descriptions of the VMware Horizon smart policy settings you can select in Dynamic Environment Manager, see Horizon Smart Policy Settings in the VMware Horizon 7 documentation.

  • Add conditions that must be met for the policy to take effect, as described in Adding Conditions to Horizon Smart Policy Definitions in the VMware Horizon documentation.

For examples of using Horizon smart policies, see Reviewer's Guide for View in VMware Horizon 7: Smart Policies document at vmware.com.

Adding Conditions to Horizon Smart Policy Definitions describes the use of Horizon Client property conditions in the smart policies. Predefined Horizon Client properties correspond to ViewClient_ registry keys. Not all of the predefined properties used in Horizon 7 are applicable in your environment. The properties that are not applicable are:

  • ViewClient_Broker_Pool_Tags
  • ViewClient_Broker_Tags
  • ViewClient_Launch_Matched_Tags
  • ViewClient_Broker_DNS_Name

In an environment configured using Unified Access Gateway, the broker sets the following gateway-related properties by default to these values as follows:

  • If your Unified Access Gateway is external, then the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation property is set to External and ViewClient_Broker_GatewayType property is set to AP.
  • If your Unified Access Gateway is internal, then the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation property is set based on the Internal Networks list and the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayType property is set to AP.
Note: The Internal Networks list is created by your service provider and is displayed on the General Settings page.

Using a Unified Access Gateway with your environment is a best practice. However, if you do not have a Unified Access Gateway, the broker sets the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation property based on the Internal Networks list and sets the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayType property to None.