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Table 16‑3. View Agent Configuration Template Settings (Continued)
Setting Computer User Properties
Enable Unity Touch
X Determines whether the Unity Touch functionality is
enabled on the View desktop. Unity Touch supports the
delivery of remote applications in View and allows
mobile device users to access applications in the Unity
Touch sidebar.
This setting is located in the VMware View Agent
Configuration > Unity Touch and Hosted Apps folder in
the Group Policy Management Editor.
This setting is enabled by default.
ShowDiskActivityIcon
X This setting is not supported in this release.
Toggle Display Settings
Control
X Determines whether to disable the Settings tab in the
Display control panel when a client session uses the
PCoIP display protocol.
This setting is enabled by default.
NOTE The Connect using DNS Name setting was removed in the Horizon 6 version 6.1 release. You can set
the View LDAP attribute, pae-PreferDNS, to tell View Connection Server to give preference to DNS names
when sending the addresses of desktop machines and RDS hosts to clients and gateways. See "Give
Preference to DNS Names When View Connection Server Returns Address Information" in the View
Installation document.
USB Settings for the View Agent
See “USB Settings in the View Agent Configuration ADM Template,” on page 193.
Client System Information Sent to View Desktops
When a user connects or reconnects to a View desktop, Horizon Client gathers information about the client
system and View Connection Server sends that information to the remote desktop.
View Agent writes the client computer information to the system registry path HKCU\Volatile Environment
on remote desktops that are deployed on single-user machines.
For remote desktops that are deployed in RDS sessions, View Agent writes the client computer information
to the system registry path HKCU\Volatile Environment\x, where x is the session ID, on the RDS host.
You can add commands to the View Agent CommandsToRunOnConnect, CommandsToRunOnReconnect, and
CommandsToRunOnDisconnect group policy settings to run commands or command scripts that read this
information from the system registry when users connect and reconnect to desktops. See “Running
Commands on View Desktops,” on page 227 for more information.
Table 16-4 describes the registry keys that contain client system information and lists the types of client
systems that support them.
Table 16‑4. Client System Information
Registry Key Description Supported Desktops
Supported Client
Systems
ViewClient_IP_Address
The IP address of the client system. VDI (single-user
machine)
RDS
Windows, Linux, Mac,
Android, iOS, Metro
ViewClient_MAC_Address
The MAC address of the client system. VDI (single-user
machine)
RDS
Windows, Linux, Mac,
Android
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