Display modifier function key
When set, this GPO sets the combination of keys that, when grabbed and injecting input in a desktop session(PCoIP or BLAST), will change the display configuration on the client machine. When not set, the end user must ungrab using the mouse or by pressing Ctrl+Alt and then press Windows+P to change the display configuration. This GPO does not apply to application sessions.
Supported on:
Display Switch Modifier Key:
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchModifierKey Value Type REG_SZ Value (none) - Alt
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchModifierKey Value Type REG_SZ Value Alt - Ctrl
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchModifierKey Value Type REG_SZ Value Ctrl - Shift
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchModifierKey Value Type REG_SZ Value Shift
Display Switch Function Key:
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value (none) - F1
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F1 - F2
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F2 - F3
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F3 - F4
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F4 - F5
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F5 - F6
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F6 - F7
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F7 - F8
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F8 - F9
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F9 - F10
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F10 - F11
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F11 - F12
Registry Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Client Value Name DisplaySwitchFunctionKey Value Type REG_SZ Value F12
vdm_client.admx
- PCoIP Client Session Variables
- Overridable Administrator Defaults
- Configure PCoIP client image cache size policy
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by size in MB
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by time in days
- Configure PCoIP event log verbosity
- Configure PCoIP session encryption algorithms
- Configure PCoIP virtual channels
- Configure SSL cipher list
- Configure SSL connections to satisfy Security Tools
- Configure SSL protocols
- Configure the Client PCoIP UDP port
- Configure the maximum PCoIP session bandwidth
- Configure the PCoIP session bandwidth floor
- Configure the PCoIP session MTU
- Configure the PCoIP transport header
- Enable/disable audio in the PCoIP session
- Overridable Administrator Defaults
- PCoIP Session Variables
- Overridable Administrator Defaults
- Configure clipboard audit
- Configure clipboard memory size on server
- Configure clipboard redirection
- Configure drag and drop direction
- Configure frame rate vs image quality preference
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by size in MB
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by time in days
- Configure PCoIP event log verbosity
- Configure PCoIP image quality levels
- Configure PCoIP session encryption algorithms
- Configure PCoIP USB allowed and unallowed device rules
- Configure PCoIP virtual channels
- Configure SSL cipher list
- Configure SSL connections to satisfy Security Tools
- Configure SSL protocols
- Configure the maximum PCoIP session bandwidth
- Configure the PCoIP session audio bandwidth limit
- Configure the PCoIP session bandwidth floor
- Configure the PCoIP session MTU
- Configure the PCoIP transport header
- Configure the TCP port to which the PCoIP Server binds and listens
- Configure the UDP port to which the PCoIP Server binds and listens
- Disable sending CAD when users press Ctrl+Alt+Del
- Enable/disable audio in the PCoIP session
- Enable/disable microphone noise and DC offset filter in PCoIP session
- Enable access to a PCoIP session from a vSphere console
- Filter images out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter images out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Rich Text Format data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Rich Text Format data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter text out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter text out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Turn off Build-to-Lossless feature
- Turn on PCoIP user default input language synchronization
- Use alternate key for sending Secure Attention Sequence
- Whether block clipboard redirection to client side when client doesn't support audit
- Overridable Administrator Defaults
- VMware Blast
- Audio playback
- Clipboard memory size on server
- Configure clipboard audit
- Configure clipboard redirection
- Configure drag and drop direction
- Configure file transfer
- Cookie Cleanup Interval
- DSCP from Agent, TCP/IPv4
- DSCP from Agent, TCP/IPv6
- DSCP from Agent, UDP/IPv4
- DSCP from Agent, UDP/IPv6
- DSCP from BSG to Agent, TCP/IPv4
- DSCP from BSG to Agent, TCP/IPv6
- DSCP from BSG to Agent, UDP/IPv4
- DSCP from BSG to Agent, UDP/IPv6
- DSCP from BSG to Client, TCP/IPv4
- DSCP from BSG to Client, TCP/IPv6
- DSCP from BSG to Client, UDP/IPv4
- DSCP from BSG to Client, UDP/IPv6
- DSCP from Client, TCP/IPv4
- DSCP from Client, TCP/IPv6
- DSCP from Client, UDP/IPv4
- DSCP from Client, UDP/IPv6
- DSCP Marking
- Filter images out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter images out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Rich Text Format data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Rich Text Format data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter text out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter text out of the outgoing clipboard data
- H.264 High Color Accuracy
- H.264 Quality
- H.264
- HEVC
- HTML Access printing
- HTTP Service
- Image Quality
- Keyboard locale synchronization
- Max Frame Rate
- Max Session Bandwidth kbit/s Megapixel Slope
- Max Session Bandwidth
- Min Session Bandwidth
- PNG
- Screen Blanking
- UDP Protocol
- Whether block clipboard redirection to client side when client doesn't support audit
- VMware Horizon Client Configuration
- Scripting definitions
- Account to use for Unauthenticated Access
- Automatically connect if only one launch item is entitled
- Connect all USB devices to the desktop or remote application on launch
- Connect USB devices to the desktop or remote application when they are plugged in
- DesktopLayout
- DesktopName to select
- Disable 3rd-party Terminal Services plugins
- Disconnected application session resumption behavior
- Enable Unauthenticated Access to the server
- Locked Guest Size
- Logon DomainName
- Logon Password
- Logon UserName
- Server URL
- Suppress error messages (when fully scripted only)
- Security Settings
- Allow command line credentials
- Certificate verification mode
- Configures SSL protocols and cryptographic algorithms
- Default value of the 'Log in as current user' checkbox
- Display option to Log in as current user
- Enable jump list integration
- Enable Single Sign-On for smart card authentication
- Enable SSL encrypted framework channel
- Ignore certificate revocation problems
- Servers Trusted For Delegation
- Unlock remote sessions when the client machine is unlocked
- View USB Configuration
- Settings not configurable by Agent
- Allow Audio Input Devices
- Allow Audio Output Devices
- Allow Auto Device Splitting
- Allow HID-Bootable
- Allow keyboard and Mouse Devices
- Allow other input devices
- Allow Smart Cards
- Allow Video Devices
- Exclude All Devices
- Exclude Device Family
- Exclude Vid/Pid Device from Split
- Exclude Vid/Pid Device
- Include Device Family
- Include Vid/Pid Device
- Split Vid/Pid Device
- Allow data sharing
- Allow display scaling
- Allow HEVC Decoding
- Always hide the remote floating language (IME) bar for Hosted Apps
- Automatically install shortcuts when configured on the Horizon server
- Block multiple Horizon Client instances per Windows session
- Default value of the 'Hide the selector after launching an item' checkbox
- Delay the start of replications when starting the Horizon Client with Local Mode
- Disable desktop disconnect messages
- Disable time zone forwarding
- Disable toast notifications
- Disallow passing through client information in a nested session
- Display modifier function key
- Display only smart card certificates during login
- Enable Horizon Client online update
- Enable relative mouse
- Hide items in application context menu
- Hide items in desktop context menu
- Hide items in desktop toolbar
- Hide items in system tray menu
- Hide items in the client toolbar menu
- Redirect smart card readers in Local Mode
- Tunnel proxy bypass address list
- URL for Horizon Client online help
- URL for Horizon Client online update
- Scripting definitions
- VMware Horizon Performance Tracker
- VMware Horizon Printer Redirection
- VMware Horizon URL Redirection
- VMware Integrated Printing
- VMware View Agent Configuration
- Agent Configuration
- AllowDirectRDP
- AllowSingleSignon
- CommandsToRunOnConnect
- CommandsToRunOnDisconnect
- CommandsToRunOnReconnect
- ConnectionTicketTimeout
- CredentialFilterExceptions
- Disable Time Zone Synchronization
- DPI Synchronization Per Connection
- DPI Synchronization
- Enable multi-media acceleration
- Enable Unauthenticated Access
- Force MMR to use software overlay
- ShowDiskActivityIcon
- Single sign-on retry timeout
- Toggle Display Settings Control
- Agent Security
- Collaboration
- Persona Management
- Desktop UI
- Folder Redirection
- Add the administrators group to redirected folders
- Application Data (Roaming)
- Contacts
- Cookies
- Desktop
- Downloads
- Favorites
- Files and folders excluded from Folder Redirection (exceptions)
- Files and folders excluded from Folder Redirection
- History
- Links
- My Documents
- My Music
- My Pictures
- My Videos
- Network Neighborhood
- Printer Neighborhood
- Recent Items
- Saved Games
- Searches
- Send To
- Start Menu
- Startup Items
- Templates
- Temporary Internet Files
- Logging
- Roaming & Synchronization
- Cleanup CLFS Files
- Enable background download for laptops
- Enforces wallpaper setting from GPO
- Excluded Processes
- Files and folders excluded from roaming (exceptions)
- Files and folders excluded from roaming
- Files and folders to preload (exceptions)
- Files and folders to preload
- Folders to background download (exceptions)
- Folders to background download
- Manage user persona
- Persona repository location
- Remove local persona at log off
- Roam local settings folders
- Windows roaming profiles synchronization (exceptions)
- Windows roaming profiles synchronization
- Troubleshooting
- Scanner Redirection
- Serial COM
- Smartcard Redirection
- True SSO Configuration
- Unity Touch and Hosted Apps
- View Agent Direct-Connection Configuration
- Applications Enabled
- Client Config Name Value Pairs
- Client Credential Cache Timeout
- Client Session Timeout
- Client setting: AlwaysConnect
- Client setting: AutoConnect
- Client setting: ScreenSize
- Default Protocol
- Disclaimer Enabled
- Disclaimer Text
- External Blast Port
- External Framework Channel Port
- External IP Address
- External PCoIP Port
- External RDP Port
- HTTPS Port Number
- Multimedia redirection (MMR) Enabled
- Reset Enabled
- Session Timeout
- USB AutoConnect
- USB Enabled
- User Idle Timeout
- X509 Certificate Authentication
- X509 SSL Certificate Authentication Enabled
- View RTAV Configuration
- View USB Configuration
- Client Downloadable only Settings
- Exclude All Devices
- Exclude Device Family
- Exclude Vid/Pid Device
- Include Device Family
- Include Vid/Pid Device
- VMware Client IP Transparency
- VMware Device Bridge
- VMware FlashMMR
- VMware Horizon Client Drive Redirection
- VMware HTML5 Features
- VMware HTML5 Multimedia Redirection
- VMware Virtualization Pack for Skype for Business
- Recursive Enumeration of Trusted Domains
- Agent Configuration
- VMware View Common Configuration
- Log Configuration
- Performance Alarms
- CPU and Memory Sampling Interval in Seconds
- Overall CPU usage percentage to issue log info
- Overall memory usage percentage to issue log info
- Process CPU usage percentage to issue log info
- Processes to check, comma separated name list allowing wild cards and exclusion
- Process memory usage percentage to issue log info
- Security Configuration
- Disk threshold for log and events in Megabytes
- Enable extended logging
- Override the default View Windows event generation
- VMware View Server Configuration
- Windows Components
- Horizon View RDSH Services
- Remote Desktop Session Host
- Horizon View RDSH Services
- Turn off Fair Share CPU Scheduling
- PCoIP Client Session Variables
- Not Overridable Administrator Settings
- Configure PCoIP client image cache size policy
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by size in MB
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by time in days
- Configure PCoIP event log verbosity
- Configure PCoIP session encryption algorithms
- Configure PCoIP virtual channels
- Configure SSL cipher list
- Configure SSL connections to satisfy Security Tools
- Configure SSL protocols
- Configure the Client PCoIP UDP port
- Configure the maximum PCoIP session bandwidth
- Configure the PCoIP session bandwidth floor
- Configure the PCoIP session MTU
- Configure the PCoIP transport header
- Enable/disable audio in the PCoIP session
- Not Overridable Administrator Settings
- PCoIP Session Variables
- Not Overridable Administrator Settings
- Configure clipboard memory size on server
- Configure clipboard redirection
- Configure frame rate vs image quality preference
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by size in MB
- Configure PCoIP event log cleanup by time in days
- Configure PCoIP event log verbosity
- Configure PCoIP image quality levels
- Configure PCoIP session encryption algorithms
- Configure PCoIP USB allowed and unallowed device rules
- Configure PCoIP virtual channels
- Configure SSL cipher list
- Configure SSL connections to satisfy Security Tools
- Configure SSL protocols
- Configure the maximum PCoIP session bandwidth
- Configure the PCoIP session audio bandwidth limit
- Configure the PCoIP session bandwidth floor
- Configure the PCoIP session MTU
- Configure the PCoIP transport header
- Configure the TCP port to which the PCoIP Server binds and listens
- Configure the UDP port to which the PCoIP Server binds and listens
- Disable sending CAD when users press Ctrl+Alt+Del
- Enable/disable audio in the PCoIP session
- Enable/disable microphone noise and DC offset filter in PCoIP session
- Enable access to a PCoIP session from a vSphere console
- Filter images out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter images out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Chart and Smart Art data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Office text data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Microsoft Text Effects data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter Rich Text Format data out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter Rich Text Format data out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Filter text out of the incoming clipboard data
- Filter text out of the outgoing clipboard data
- Turn off Build-to-Lossless feature
- Turn on PCoIP user default input language synchronization
- Use alternate key for sending Secure Attention Sequence
- Not Overridable Administrator Settings
- VMware Horizon Client Configuration
- RDP Settings
- Audio redirection
- Bitmap cache file size in MB for 8bpp bitmaps
- Bitmap cache file size in MB for 16bpp bitmaps
- Bitmap cache file size in Mb for 24bpp bitmaps
- Bitmap cache file size in MB for 32bpp bitmaps
- Bitmap caching / cache persistence active
- Color depth
- Cursor shadow
- Desktop background
- Desktop composition
- Enable audio capture redirection
- Enable compression
- Enable Credential Security Service Provider
- Enable RDP Auto-Reconnect
- Font smoothing
- In-memory bitmap cache size in KB for 8bpp bitmaps
- Menu and window animation
- Redirect clipboard
- Redirect drives
- Redirect printers
- Redirect serial ports
- Redirect smart cards
- Redirect supported plug-and-play devices
- Shadow bitmaps
- Show contents of window while dragging
- Themes
- Windows key combination redirection
- Scripting definitions
- Account to use for Unauthenticated Access
- Automatically connect if only one launch item is entitled
- Connect all USB devices to the desktop or remote application on launch
- Connect USB devices to the desktop or remote application when they are plugged in
- DesktopLayout
- DesktopName to select
- Disable 3rd-party Terminal Services plugins
- Disconnected application session resumption behavior
- Enable Unauthenticated Access to the server
- Locked Guest Size
- Logon DomainName
- Logon Password
- Logon UserName
- Server URL
- Suppress error messages (when fully scripted only)
- Security Settings
- Allow display scaling
- Always hide the remote floating language (IME) bar for Hosted Apps
- Always on top
- Automatically install shortcuts when configured on the Horizon server
- Default Exit Behavior For Local Mode Desktops
- Default value of the 'Hide the selector after launching an item' checkbox
- Disable desktop disconnect messages
- Disable opening local files in hosted applications
- Disable sharing files and folders
- Disable toast notifications
- Display modifier function key
- Don't check monitor alignment on spanning
- Enable multi-media acceleration
- Enable relative mouse
- Enable the shade
- Hide items in application context menu
- Hide items in desktop context menu
- Hide items in desktop toolbar
- Hide items in system tray menu
- Hide items in the client toolbar menu
- Pin the shade
- RDP Settings
- VMware Horizon URL Redirection
- VMware View Agent Configuration
- Agent Configuration
- Agent Security
- Scanner Redirection
- Serial COM
- VMware FlashMMR