Hi,
I thought I'd reach out to the community to get a view on the feasibility of using a feature such as URL Content Redirection in Horizon 7. Whilst on paper, it sounds like a benefit to offload URL clicks/entries to sites such as YouTube so as to place the overhead on a ThinClient for example, there are many user experience caveats/complexities. For example, if you are using a full screen VDI session, upon attempts to access YouTube, the local browser does successfully appear in front of your active session to continue use of the redirected site, but if you minimize the window, you are helpless to bring it back as the ALT-TAB you issue is sent to the VDI session, not the underlying device and therefore your users have no method of regaining control of the local browser the VDI session called. Making a comparison to Citrix, their local application access technique successfully integrates the locally run application into the taskbar of the VDI session, allowing you to transparently use the application as if it was genuinely hosted within the Virtual Desktop.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but unless you operate a Windowed virtual desktop (and therefore present two taskbars/start menus, which brings a whole new level of complexity for the end user), I'm struggling to understand how the feature at this stage of development would even stand the test of time in a production environment.
I look forward to hearing other peoples views or successes/failures with this "feature".
Thanks
Andrew