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Administration document. If you have View Agent 6.0 or later, or
Horizon Agent 7.0 or later, no feature pack is required. To use Real-Time
Audio-Video with published desktops and applications, you must have
Horizon Agent 7.0.2 or later.
Horizon Client computer
or client access device
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Real-Time Audio-Video is supported on all operating systems that run
Horizon Client for Windows. For details, see “System Requirements for
Windows Clients,” on page 10.
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The webcam and audio device drivers must be installed, and the
webcam and audio device must be operable, on the client computer. To
support Real-Time Audio-Video, you do not have to install the device
drivers on the desktop operating system where the agent is installed.
Display protocols
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PCoIP
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VMware Blast (requires Horizon Agent 7.0 or later)
System Requirements for Scanner Redirection
You can scan information into your remote desktops and applications with scanners that are connected to
your local client system. To use this feature, your remote desktops, applications, and client computers must
meet certain system requirements.
Remote desktops
The remote desktops must have View Agent 6.0.2 or later, or Horizon Agent
7.0 or later, installed with the Scanner Redirection setup option, on the parent
or template virtual machines or RDS hosts. On Windows desktop and
Windows Server guest operating systems, the Horizon Agent Scanner
Redirection setup option is deselected by default.
For information about which guest operating systems are supported on
single-user virtual machines and on RDS hosts, and for information about
conguring scanner redirection in remote desktops and applications, see
"Congure Scanner Redirection" in Conguring Remote Desktop Features in
Horizon 7.
Horizon Client computer
or client access device
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Scanner redirection is supported on Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, and
Windows 10.
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The scanner device drivers must be installed, and the scanner must be
operable, on the client computer. You do not need to install the scanner
device drivers on the remote desktop operating system where the agent
is installed.
Scanning device
standard
TWAIN or WIA
Display protocols
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PCoIP
n
VMware Blast (requires Horizon Agent 7.0 or later)
Scanner redirection is not supported in RDP desktop sessions.
Using VMware Horizon Client for Windows
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