Thank you.

Your blog is very interesting.

I hope that a future VDI Client also contains this in the client GUI?

/Henrik

Are there any specifically that you are looking for? Would you prefer that they be added to the Admin UI or the Client UI?

I find it a little ridiculous that these cannot be set on the client. Many of our end users are "Work from Home" users who will load the client on their home PC, and remote into the office to their VMware View machine. So, since these users on not on a domain computer, they cannot change ANY of the expected setting like size, color depth, disable drive sharing with their host, etc.

Yes. If they can be set in the registry, I can easily modify a script to do that. Please provide me with that info!

Not that I'm saying that this isn't a good idea, but doing this is not as easy as you'd think. These settings are all specific to the protocol you use, which is chosen in the desktop selector. So it belongs in the desktop selector, which is already very cluttered.

You will need to create or open the following registry key on the client machine:

<HKLM or HKCU>\Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client\RDP Settings

That will be the parent key of all of the RDP settings for the client machine. HKLM overrides HKCU, which overrides each value's default.

Create a REG_SZ named "ColorDepth" set to "15"
Create a REG_SZ named "RedirectDrives" set to "false"

Here are some more values you can set in the "RDP Settings" key. I am pretty sure that every registry value can be REG_SZ, but a bool type will mean that the value data would be "true" or "false". For an integer, refer to the View Administrator Guide for the specific values (or do a google search because they map directly the values that the Microsoft RDP control uses).

Bools: "DisableWallpaper", "DisableFullWindowDrag", "DisableMenuAnimations", "EnableEnhancedGraphics", "DisableCursorShadow", "RedirectPrinters", "RedirectPorts", "RedirectSmartcards", "RedirectClipboard", "BitmapPersistence", "EnableCompression", "ShadowBitmap", "CachePersistenceActive", "RedirectPlugAndPlayDevices", "FontSmoothing", "DesktopComposition"
Integers: "AudioRedirectionMode", "KeyboardHookMode", "BitmapCacheSize", "BitmapVirtualCacheSize", "BitmapVirtualCache16BppSize", "BitmapVirtualCache24BppSize", "BitmapVirtualCache32BppSize"