Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

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3D Rendering can be enabled or disabled on the desktop pool.
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Users must play videos on Windows Media Player 12 or later or in
Internet Explorer 8 or later.
To use Internet Explorer, you must disable Protected Mode. In the
Internet Options dialog box, click the Security tab and deselect Enable
Protected Mode.
Horizon Client software
Horizon Client 3.2 for Windows or a later release is required to support
Windows Media MMR on single-user machines.
Horizon Client computer
or client access device
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The clients must run 64-bit or 32-bit Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1
operating systems.
Supported media
formats
Media formats that are supported on Windows Media Player are supported.
For example: M4V; MOV; MP4; WMP; MPEG-4 Part 2; WMV 7, 8, and 9;
WMA; AVI; ACE; MP3; WAV.
NOTE DRM-protected content is not redirected through Windows Media
MMR.
View policies
In View Administrator, set the Multimedia redirection (MMR) policy to
Allow. The default value is Deny.
Back-end firewall
If your View deployment includes a back-end firewall between your DMZ-
based security servers and your internal network, verify that the back-end
firewall allows traffic to port 9427 on your desktops.
Determine Whether to Use Windows Media MMR Based on Network Latency
By default, Windows Media MMR adapts to network conditions on single-user desktops that run on
Windows 8 or later and RDS desktops that run on Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 or later. If the network
latency between Horizon Client and the remote desktop is 29 milliseconds or lower, the video is redirected
with Windows Media MMR. If the network latency is 30 milliseconds or higher, the video is not redirected.
Instead, it is rendered on the ESXi host and sent to the client over PCoIP.
This feature applies to Windows 8 or later single-user desktops and Windows Server 2012 or 2012 R2 or later
RDS desktops. Users can run any supported client system, Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1.
This feature does not apply to Windows 7 single-user desktops or Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS desktops.
On these guest operating systems, Windows Media MMR always performs multimedia redirection,
regardless of network latency.
You can override this feature, forcing Windows Media MMR to perform multimedia redirection regardless
of the network latency, by configuring the RedirectionPolicy registry setting on the desktop.
Procedure
1 Start the Windows Registry Editor on the remote desktop.
2 Navigate to the Windows registry key that controls the redirection policy.
Option Description
64-bit desktop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\VMware,Inc.\VMware
tsmmr
32-bit desktop
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VMware,Inc.\VMware tsmmr
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