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August 21, 2026

System Requirements for UNC Path Redirection

To use the UNC Path Redirection feature, your client machines, remote desktop machines, and RDS hosts must meet certain requirements.

  • Applications for Windows agents and clients

    The following Microsoft Office suite applications are supported on Windows agents and clients:

    Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint version 2013 and later, 64-bit or 32-bit

  • Windows clients

    Install Omnissa Horizon Client for Windows.

    To use client-to-agent redirection, you must enable the UNC Path Redirection feature during Horizon Client for Windows installation. See Installing Horizon Client for Windows with the UNC Path Redirection Feature Enabled. You do not need to enable the UNC Path Redirection feature in Horizon Client for Windows to use agent-to-client redirection.

  • Virtual desktops and RDS hosts

    To use agent-to-client redirection, install Horizon Agent with the UNC Path Redirection feature enabled. See Installing Horizon Agent with the UNC Path Redirection Feature Enabled.

  • Display protocols

    • Omnissa Horizon Blast
    • PCoIP

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