Microsoft Remote Desktop Mac Enable Folder Redirection

| 07-03-2021
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Aug 22, 2007 Folder redirection can also provide locked down Desktop and Start Menu Folders by redirecting to Network Shares from which the end users can only read, or it can be set up so users' individual Start Menu and Desktop folders reside on a File Share instead of being copied back and forth with the rest of the roaming profile. 2014-9-23  I have Mac that I'm able to get the folder redirection to work when I bring up explorer. I have an application that I don't have the ability to browse to folders but requires a specific URL to locate the files. In Windows this was easy I could point to tsclientcFolder1 and this would map to. Hi, Please check if URI Scheme could help you. The Remote Desktop Connection dialog box allows you to choose USB devices that you want to use in your remote desktop session. Expanded USB Device Support Recently we released the KB article Some USB devices are not available via RemoteFX USB redirection that explains how to enable additional devices with RemoteFX USB Redirection.

Administrators can configure the client system to specify which USB devices can be redirected to a remote desktop.

  1. I have a Windows 7 Virtual Machine setup, that I remote into using my Macbook Pro. I'm using Microsoft Remote Desktop 2014, and have Folder Redirection setup. I don't see where the redirected folders are supposed to show up on my VM? It should be a folder called Projects. Screenshot below shows no redirected folders: Thank you.
  2. Jul 11, 2017 How to control the Remote Desktop After you establish a Remote Desktop connection, your remote desktop is displayed in its own window. You can use the keyboard and mouse of the local host to control the remote computer. How to gain access to local files You can gain access to your disk drives on the local computer during a Remote Desktop session.

You can configure USB policies for both View Agent or Horizon Agent, on the remote desktop, and Horizon Client, on the local system, to achieve the following goals:

  • Restrict the types of USB devices that Horizon Client makes available for redirection.
  • Make View Agent or Horizon Agent prevent certain USB devices from being forwarded from a client computer.
  • Specify whether Horizon Client should split composite USB devices into separate components for redirection.

    Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more devices, such as a video input device and a storage device.

Configuration settings on the client might be merged with or overridden by corresponding policies set for View Agent or Horizon Agent on the remote desktop. For information about how USB settings on the client work in conjunction with View Agent or Horizon Agent USB policies, see the topics about using policies to control USB redirection, in the Configuring Remote Desktop Features in Horizon 7 document.

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Using Rules From a Previous Horizon Client Release

In previous Horizon Client releases, you had to use sudo to configure USB filtering and splitting rules. You can use the following procedure to move rules that use sudo to new rules that do not use sudo.

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  1. On the Mac client, open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and run the following command:
  2. Open a Terminal window (press command+N) and run the following command:
  3. In the first Terminal window, run the following command:
  4. Close both Terminal windows.

You can now use defaults write com.vmware.viewusb propertyvalue to update the rules.

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Syntax for Configuring USB Redirection

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You can configure filtering and splitting rules to exclude or include USB devices from being redirected to a remote desktop. On a Mac client, you configure USB functionality by using Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and running a command as root.

  • To list the rules:

    For example:

  • To remove a rule:

    For example:

  • To set or replace a filter rule:

    For example:

    Important: Some configuration parameters require the VID (vendor ID) and PID (product ID) for a USB device. To find the VID and PID, you can search on the Internet for the product name combined with vid and pid. Alternatively, you can look in the USB Log file after you plug in the USB device to the local system when Horizon Client is running. For more information, see Turn On Logging for USB Redirection.
  • To set or replace a splitting rule for a composite device:

    For example:

    Composite USB devices consist of a combination of two or more devices, such as a video input device and a storage device. The first line in this example turns on automatic splitting of composite devices. The second line excludes the specified composite USB device (Vid-03f0_Pid-2a12) from splitting.

    The third line tells Horizon Client to treat the components of a different composite device (Vid-0911_Pid-149a) as separate devices but to exclude the following component from being redirected: the component whose interface number is 03. This component is kept local.

    Because this composite device includes a component that is ordinarily excluded by default, such as a mouse or keyboard, the fourth line is necessary so that the other components of the composite device Vid-0911_Pid-149a can be redirected to the remote desktop.

    The first three properties are splitting properties. The last property is a filtering property. Filtering properties are processed before splitting properties.

Excluding a USB Ethernet Device

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One example of a USB device you might want to exclude from redirection is a USB Ethernet device. Suppose that your Mac is using a USB Ethernet device to connect the network for the Mac client system to a remote desktop. If you redirect the USB Ethernet device, your local client system will lose its connection to the network and the remote desktop.

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If you want to permanently hide this device from the USB connection menu, or if you have set your remote desktop to autoconnect USB devices, you can add an exception to exclude your Ethernet connection.

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In this example, xxxx is the vendor ID and yyyy is the product ID of the USB Ethernet adapter.