Configuring Horizon Smart Policies

Your environment supports using Horizon smart policies to control the end users' virtual desktops. These smart policies provide policy-driven control over the behavior of features such as USB redirection, virtual printing, clipboard redirection, client drive redirection, and PCoIP display protocol features on the virtual desktops. By using these smart policies, you can have policies that take effect only if certain conditions are met. For example, you can configure a policy that deactivates the client drive redirection feature if a user connects to a remote desktop from outside your corporate network.

For a detailed description of Horizon smart policies and instructions on how to use them, refer to the Horizon smart policies information in the Horizon document titled Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7.

These smart policies require use of Dynamic Environment Manager agent software, which is installed using the Horizon Agent Installer. You must download the most recent version of Horizon Agent Installer from the Downloads page.

After you have completed installation and configuration of Dynamic Environment Manager and its Management Console to configure a smart policy on your template VM you need to perform the following steps on that VM.

• If you have not done so already, run the Horizon Agent Installer and install the Dynamic Environment Manager agent. The Dynamic Environment Manager FlexEngine client is installed with that agent component.
• Define the Horizon smart policy using the Dynamic Environment Manager Management Console.
• Add conditions that must be met for the policy to take effect.

Predefined Horizon Client properties correspond to ViewClient_ registry keys. Not all of the predefined properties used in Horizon 7 are applicable in your environment. The properties that are not applicable are:

• ViewClient_Broker_Pool_Tags
• ViewClient_Broker_Tags
• ViewClient_Launch_Matched_Tags
• ViewClient_Broker_DNS_Name

In an environment configured using Unified Access Gateway, the broker sets the following gateway-related properties by default to these values as follows:

• If your Unified Access Gateway is external, then the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation property is set to External and ViewClient_Broker_GatewayType property is set to AP.
• If your Unified Access Gateway is internal, then the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation property is set based on the Internal Networks list and the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayType property is set to AP.

Note: The Internal Networks list is created by your service provider and is displayed on the General Settings page.

Using a Unified Access Gateway with your environment is a best practice. However, if you do not have a Unified Access Gateway, the broker sets the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayLocation property based on the Internal Networks list and sets the ViewClient_Broker_GatewayType property to None.