Policy settings reference
Policies contain settings that are applied when the policy is enforced. Descriptions in this section also indicate if additional settings are required to enable a feature or are similar to a setting.
Quick reference
The following tables list the settings you can configure within a policy. Find the task you want to complete in the left column, then locate its corresponding setting in the right column.
Audio
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Control whether to allow the use of multiple audio devices | Audio Plug N Play |
| Control whether to allow audio input from microphones on the user device | Client microphone redirection |
| Control audio quality on the user device | Audio quality |
| Control audio mapping to speakers on the user device | Client audio redirection |
Bandwidth for user devices
| To limit bandwidth used for | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Client audio mapping | Audio redirection bandwidth limit or Audio redirection bandwidth limit percent |
| Cut-and-paste using local clipboard | Clipboard redirection bandwidth limit or Clipboard redirection bandwidth limit percent |
| Access in a session to local client drives | File redirection bandwidth limit or File redirection bandwidth limit percent |
| HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration | HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration bandwidth limit or HDX MediaStream Multimedia Acceleration bandwidth limit percent |
| Client session | Overall session bandwidth limit |
| Printing | Printer redirection bandwidth limit or Printer redirection bandwidth limit percent |
| TWAIN devices (such as a camera or scanner) | TWAIN device redirection bandwidth limit or TWAIN device redirection bandwidth limit percent |
| USB devices | Client USB device redirection bandwidth limit or Client USB device redirection bandwidth limit percent |
Redirection of client drives and user devices
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Control whether or not drives on the user device are connected when users log on to the server | Auto connect client drives |
| Control cut-and-paste data transfer between the server and the local clipboard | Client clipboard redirection |
| Control how drives map from the user device | Client drive redirection |
| Control whether users’ local hard drives are available in a session | Client fixed drives and Client drive redirection |
| Control whether users’ local floppy drives are available in a session | Client floppy drives and Client drive redirection |
| Control whether users’ network drives are available in a session | Client network drives and Client drive redirection |
| Control whether users’ local CD, DVD,or Blu-ray drives are available in a session | Client optical drives and Client drive redirection |
| Control whether users’ local removable drives are available in a session | Client removable drives and Client drive redirection |
| Control whether users’ TWAIN devices, such as scanners and cameras, are available in a session and control compression of image data transfers | Client TWAIN device redirection and TWAIN compression redirection |
| Control whether USB devices are available in a session | Client USB device redirection and Client USB device redirection rules |
| Improve the speed of writing and copying files to a client disk over a WAN | Use asynchronous writes |
Content redirection
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Control whether to use content redirection from the server to the user device | Host to client redirection |
Desktop UI
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Control whether or not Desktop wallpaper is used in users’ sessions | Desktop wallpaper |
| View window contents while a window is dragged | View window contents while dragging |
Graphics and multimedia
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Control the maximum number of frames per second sent to user devices from virtual desktops | Target frame rate |
| Control the visual quality of images displayed on the user device | Visual quality |
| Control whether Flash content is rendered in sessions | Flash default behavior |
| Control whether websites can display Flash content when accessed in sessions | Flash server-side content fetching URL list; Flash URL compatibility list; Flash video fallback prevention policy setting; Flash video fallback prevention error *.swf |
| Control compression of server-rendered video | Use video codec for compression; Use hardware encoding for video codec |
| Control the delivery of HTML5 multimedia web content to users | HTML5 video redirection |
Prioritize Multi-Stream network traffic
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Specify ports for ICA traffic across multiple connections and establish network priorities | Multi-Port policy |
| Enable support for multi-stream connections among servers and user devices | Multi-Stream (computer and user settings) |
| For this task | Use this policy setting |
|---|---|
| Control creation of client printers on the user device | Auto-create client printers and Client printer redirection |
| Control the location where printer properties are stored | Printer properties retention |
| Control whether the client or the server processes the print requests | Direct connections to print servers |
| Control whether users can access printers connected to their user devices | Client printer redirection |
| Control installation of native Windows drivers when automatically creating client and network printers | Automatic installation of in-box printer drivers |
| Control when to use the Universal Printer Driver | Universal print driver usage |
| Choose a printer based on a roaming user session information | Default printer |
| Load balance and set failover threshold for Universal Print Servers | Universal Print Servers for load balancing Universal Print Servers out-of-service threshold |
Note:
Policies cannot be used to enable a screen saver in a desktop or application session. For users who require screen savers, the screen saver can be implemented on the user device.
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