URL Content Redirection Limitations

The behavior of the URL Content Redirection feature might have certain unexpected results.

• If the URL opens a country-specific page based on the locale, the source of the link determines the locale page that is opened. For example, if the remote desktop (agent source) resides in a data center in Japan and the user computer resides in the U.S., if the URL is redirected from the agent to the client machine, the page that opens on the U.S. client is the Japanese page.
• If users create favorites from Web pages, the favorites are created after redirection. For example, if a user clicks a link on the client machine and the URL is redirected to a remote desktop (agent), and the user creates a favorite for that page, the favorite is created on the agent. The next time the user opens the browser on the client machine, the user might expect to find the favorite on the client machine, but the favorite was stored on the remote desktop (agent source).
• Files that users download appear on the machine where the browser was used to open the URL, for example, when a user clicks a link on the client machine and the URL is redirected to a remote desktop. If the link downloaded a file, or if the link is for a Web page where the user downloads a file, the file is downloaded to the remote desktop rather than to the client machine.
• If you install Horizon Agent and Horizon Client on the same machine, you can enable URL Content Redirection in Horizon Agent or in Horizon Client, but not in both. On this machine, you can set up either client-to-agent redirection or agent-to-client redirection, but not both.
• If you do not install the browser extensions for URL Content Redirection before you enable the URL Content Redirection feature in Horizon Agent or Horizon Client, the JSON file does not load and the URL Content Redirection feature does not work.
• Roaming profiles are not supported with the URL Content Redirection feature in the Windows agent or Windows client.
• To support published Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium) browsers in an RDS host, the URL Content Redirection browser extension must use a helper process that is started by Windows Explorer (explorer.exe). If the helper process is not started, URL Content Redirection does not work in Chrome and Microsoft Edge (Chromium). URL Content Redirection is supported if the published application is the Internet Explorer browser or a non-browser application, such as WordPad or Word.