Dell Wyse ThinOS Version 8.5 Administrator’s Guide

Global Connection settings

1. On the desktop taskbar, click Connect Manager > Global Connection Settings.
   The Global Connection Settings dialog box is displayed.
2. Click the Session tab to select the check boxes you want for the options that are available to all sessions.
   The Smart Card check box specifies the default setting for connecting to a smart card reader at startup.

   NOTE:

   ICA sessions always have automatic connection to attached smart card readers. When using the Disks check box for automatic connection to connected USB sticks, use the following guidelines:

   • More than one disk can be used at the same time, however, the maximum number of USB sticks including different subareas is 12.
   • Be sure to save all data and sign off from the session mapping the USB stick before removing the USB stick.
   NOTE:USB devices redirection —By default, audio, video and printer devices will not use HDX USB for redirection. You can make selections for USB device redirection on the Session tab of the Global Connection Settings dialog box.
3. Click the ICA tab, and do the following:
   1. Select the check boxes you want for the options that are available to all ICA sessions.
   2. Select an audio quality optimized for your connection.
   3. Use the Map to option to map a disk. When a drive is entered, the disk is mapped under that particular drive.
4. Click the RDP tab and do the following:
   1. Enable or disable Network Level Authentication (NLA)—The NLA authentication method verifies users before they are allowed to connect with a full Remote Desktop connection.
   2. Enable or disable ForceSpan—This dual-monitor feature allows you to span the session horizontally across two monitors, thus two monitors acting as one large monitor.
   3. Enable or disable Terminal Service multimedia Redirection (TSMM).
   4. Enable or disable Record from Local (recording from local microphone).
   5. Enable or disable RemoteFX.
   6. Select the USB Redirection Type (TCX USB or RDP USB)—TCX USB is the default. To use RDP USB, you must use a RemoteFX session for Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 session. However, RDP USB is not supported using a standard Windows 7/Windows 2008 R2 session. For Windows 8 session and above, RDP USB is supported.
5. In PCoIP enabled clients, an extra tab named PCoIP is available. Select the USB device redirection type from the drop-down list. The available values are PCoIP USB and TCX USB.
6. Click the Horizon tab, and do the following:
   
   1. Select the Enable H264 check box. This option allows H.264 decoding in Horizon Client. Enabling this option, improves the performance of high-end applications. To validate the H.264 decoding, navigate to the /tmp/vmware-user/ directory, open the vmware-mks-pid.log file, and check if the H264 support is enabled entry is registered in the log file.
      NOTE:

      • Blast H.264 feature is not supported on Wyse 5010 thin clients, Wyse 5040 thin clients, and Wyse 7010 thin clients. Blast H.264 is automatically disabled on Wyse 5060 thin client for 1920 x 1200 resolution due to hardware limitation.
      • A performance tracker is introduced by VMware for performance evaluation and data collection.
   2. From the Network Condition drop-down list, select whether to use a condition for your Blast connection.
      NOTE:Blast Extreme protocol is part of BEAT (Blast Extreme Advanced Transport).

      • Select Excellent to allow the Blast connection to use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).
      • Select Typical to allow the Blast connection to use Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). By default, this value is selected.
      • Select Poor to allow the Blast connection to use User Datagram Protocol (UDP). UDP uses the available bandwidth to deliver the end-user experience.

        To enable UDP, you need to make a few changes to the VMware View Connection Server, the Agent host desktop, and the VMware Horizon Client. For information about the necessary configuration on server and agent desktop, see VMware Certificate Guide at code.vmware.com/group/euc/thin-client/certs/4.6.