Administrator Guide

Global Connection settings
If you do not use INI files to provide central configuration (global connection settings) to users, you can use the Global
Connection Settings dialog box to configure settings that affect all of the connections in your list of connections:
● Zero desktop—Click Global Connection Settings in the list of connections.
●
Classic desktop—Click Global Connection Settings in the Connect Manager.
To configure the Global Connection settings:
1. On the desktop taskbar, click Connect Manager > Global Connection Settings.
The Global Connection Settings dialog box is displayed.
2. Click the Session tab to select the check boxes you want for the options that are available to all sessions.
The Smart Card check box specifies the default setting for connecting to a smart card reader at startup.
NOTE:
ICA sessions always have automatic connection to attached smart card readers. When using the Disks check box for
automatic connection to connected USB sticks, use the following guidelines:
● More than one disk can be used at the same time, however, the maximum number of USB sticks including different
subareas is 12.
● Be sure to save all data and sign off from the session mapping the USB stick before removing the USB stick.
NOTE: USB devices redirection —By default, audio, video and printer devices will not use HDX USB for redirection.
You can make selections for USB device redirection on the Session tab of the Global Connection Settings dialog box.
3. Click the ICA tab, and do the following:
a. Select the check boxes you want for the options that are available to all ICA sessions.
b. Select an audio quality optimized for your connection.
c. Use the Map to option to map a disk. When a drive is entered, the disk is mapped under that particular drive.
4. Click the RDP tab and do the following:
a. Enable or disable Network Level Authentication (NLA)—The NLA authentication method verifies users before they are
allowed to connect with a full Remote Desktop connection.
b. Enable or disable ForceSpan—This dual-monitor feature allows you to span the session horizontally across two monitors,
thus two monitors acting as one large monitor.
c. Enable or disable Terminal Service multimedia Redirection (TSMM).
d. Enable or disable Record from Local (recording from local microphone).
e. Enable or disable RemoteFX.
f. Select the USB Redirection Type (TCX USB or RDP USB)—TCX USB is the default. To use RDP USB, you must use
a RemoteFX session for Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 session. However, RDP USB is not supported using a standard
Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 session. For Windows 8 session and above, RDP USB is supported.
5. In PCoIP enabled clients, an extra tab named PCoIP is available. Select the USB device redirection type from the
drop-down list. The available values are PCoIP USB and TCX USB.
6. Click the Horizon tab, and do the following:
a. Select the Enable H264 check box. This option allows H.264 decoding in Horizon Client. Enabling this option,
improves the performance of high-end applications. To validate the H.264 decoding, add an INI parameter
BlastDebugClientH264=yes, and verify if the H264 basic watermark is displayed in the upper-left corner of the
VMware Blast session window.
The following table describes the performance of H.264 decoder in VMware Horizon sessions that use the VMware Blast
display protocol:
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