Screen Blanking

If you enable or do not configure this policy setting, the desktop virtual machine's console will show a blank screen when there is an active session to the desktop. If you disable this policy setting, the virtual machine's console will show the desktop that the user sees.

Supported on:

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	SOFTWARE\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware Blast\Config
Value Name	BlankScreenEnabled
Value Type	REG_SZ
Enabled Value	1
Disabled Value	0

vdm_blast.admx

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