Citrix XenDesktop v5 Policy Settings Reference

The following tables present settings you can configure within a policy. Find the task you want to perform in the left column, then locate its corresponding setting in the right column.

Graphics & Multimedia

Task:

Use this policy setting:

Control the amount of memory allocated for displaying graphics in a session

Display memory limit

Control how a user’s display degrades in response to memory limits and whether or not to notify the user

  • Display mode degrade preference
  • Notify user when display mode is degraded

Control compression of images for use in sessions of limited bandwidth

  • Lossy compression level
  • Lossy compression level threshold value
  • Progressive compression level
  • Progressive compression threshold value

Control whether or not Flash content is rendered in sessions

Flash acceleration

Control whether or not Web sites can display Flash content when accessed in sessions

  • Flash server-side content fetching whitelist
  • Flash URL blacklist

Desktop UI

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

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

Devices connected to a local COM port

  • COM port redirection bandwidth limit, or
  • COM port redirection bandwidth limit percent

Access in a session to local client drives

  • File redirection bandwidth limit, or
  • File redirection bandwidth limit percent

Printers connected to the client LPT port

  • LPT port redirection bandwidth limit, or
  • LPT port redirection bandwidth limit percent

Client session

Overall session bandwidth limit

Printing

  • Printer redirection bandwidth limit, or
  • Printer redirection bandwidth limit percent

Audio

Task:

Use this policy setting:

Control whether or not 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

User drives and devices

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 how drives map from the user device

Client drive redirection

Improve the speed of writing and copying files to a client disk over a WAN

Use asynchronous writes

Control whether or not user devices attached to local COM ports are available in a session

Client COM port redirection

Control whether or not client printers attached to local LPT ports are available in a session

Client LPT port redirection

Control whether or not users’ local hard drives are available in a session

  • Client fixed drives, and
  • Client drive redirection

Control whether or not users’ local floppy drives are available in a session

  • Client floppy drives, and
  • Client drive redirection

Control whether or not users’ network drives are available in a session

  • Client network drives, and
  • Client drive redirection

Control whether or not users’ local CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives are available in a session

  • Client optical drives, and
  • Client drive redirection

Control whether or not users’ local removable drives are available in a session

  • Client removable drives, and
  • Client drive redirection

Control cut-and-paste data transfer between the server and the local clipboard

Client clipboard redirection

Printing

Task:

Use this policy setting:

Control creation of client printers on the user device

  • Auto-create client printers, and
  • Client printer redirection

Allow use of legacy printer names and preserve backward compatibility with prior versions of the server

Client printer names

Control the location where printer properties are stored

Printer properties retention

Control whether print requests are processed by the client or the server

Direct connections to print servers

Control whether or not 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 printing

Choose a printer based on a roaming user’s session information

Default printer

Single Sign-On

Task:

Use this policy setting:

Identify which credential repository to use when using Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On central store

Allow or prevent use of Single Sign-On

Single Sign-On

 

Reference: Policy Settings: Quick Reference Table

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