Setting Up Desktop and Application Pools in View

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In an IPv6 environment, the automatically installed features are PCoIP Agent, PSG Agent, and

VMwareRDS.

For additional features that are supported on RDS hosts, see "Feature Support Matrix for View Agent" in the

View Architecture Planning document.

Enable Time Zone Redirection for RDS Desktop and Application

Sessions

If an RDS host is in one time zone and a user is in another time zone, by default, when the user connects to

an RDS desktop, the desktop displays time that is in the time zone of the RDS host. You can enable the Time

Zone Redirection group policy setting to make the RDS desktop display time in the local time zone. This

policy setting applies to application sessions as well.

Prerequisites

Verify that the Group Policy Management feature is available on your Active Directory server.

The steps for opening the Group Policy Management Console differ in the Windows 2012, Windows

2008, and Windows 2003 Active Directory versions. See “Create GPOs for View Group Policies,” on

page 252.

Verify that the View RDS ADMX files are added to Active Directory. See “Add the Remote Desktop

Services ADMX Files to Active Directory,” on page 238.

Familiarize yourself with the group policy settings. See “RDS Device and Resource Redirection

Settings,” on page 240.

Procedure

1 On the Active Directory server, open the Group Policy Management Console.

2 Expand your domain and Group Policy Objects.

3 Right-click the GPO that you created for the group policy settings and select Edit.

4 In the Group Policy Management Editor, navigate to Computer Configuration > Policies >

Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Horizon View RDSH Services > Remote

Desktop Session Host > Device and Resource Redirection.

5 Enable the setting Allow time zone redirection.

Enable Windows Basic Theme for Applications

If a user has never connected to a desktop on an RDS host, and the user launches an application that is

hosted on the RDS host, the Windows basic theme is not applied to the application even if a GPO setting is

configured to load the Aero-styled theme. View does not support the Aero-styled theme but supports the

Windows basic theme. To make the Windows basic theme apply to the application, you must configure

another GPO setting.