Creating a General Policy

Scenarios

General policies can meet routine office requirements. You can deliver general policies on the console, such as USB port redirection, file redirection, and printer redirection policies, to manage end users' access to cloud desktops, data security, peripheral compatibility, and performance.

Prerequisites

You have purchased a desktop.

Procedure

Log in to the console.
Choose Policies > Protocol Policies. The Protocol Policies page is displayed.
Click Create Policy.
Enter the policy name and description.
- The policy name can contain up to 55 characters in digits, letters, and underscores (_).
- The description can contain up to 255 characters.
Select a creation mode as required.
- Create without template: Create a policy using the default blank template.
- Create with template: Create a policy using an existing policy template, whose configuration items will be used by default.
  You can select an existing policy template or add a custom template.
  
  The system provides four policy templates to help you quickly configure desktop policies in four different scenarios.
  - In security scenarios, Huawei Delivery Protocol (HDP) prevents data in a desktop from being transferred to or even stored on personal storage devices and ensures that data is stored only in an on-premises data center.
  - In gaming scenarios, cursor follow-up and image display are optimized to ensure smoothness even in poor bandwidth conditions.
  - In graphics processing scenarios, the display frame rate can be adjusted to improve the display quality and the cursor follow-up mode can be adjusted to narrow the gap between the cursor and the image and reduce the visual difference.
  - In video editing scenarios, video acceleration is used to optimize video playback quality. The cursor closely follows user operations, improving user experience.
- Use existing policy: If a policy group has been created, you can import a policy from the existing policy group. The configuration items of the selected policy will be used by default.

Click Next: Configure Policy. The General Policy Configuration page is displayed.

On the displayed page, configure application policies for the VM as required.

General policies are simplified from advanced policies and can meet routine office requirements. By default, policy parameters that meet routine office requirements are enabled.

indicates that the policy is enabled.
indicates that the policy is disabled.

For details about configuring a general policy, see Table 1.

**Table 1** Policy management
Type	Parameter	Description
USB Port Redirection	Graphics devices (such as scanners)	Supports USB peripherals on Workspace. Users can use devices in VMs through USB port redirection.
	Video devices (such as cameras)
	Printers
	Storage devices (such as USB flash drives)
	Smart card devices (such as Ukeys)
File Redirection	Fixed driver	Read-only: Files in drivers and storage devices can only be pre-viewed. Read/Write: Files in drivers and storage devices can be modified. Supports drivers on Workspace. Users can use drivers in VMs through file redirection.
	Removable driver
	CD/DVD-ROM driver
	Network driver
Clipboard Redirection	Bidirectional	After this function is enabled, end users can copy data on cloud desktops and paste the data on local desktops, or copy data on local desktops and paste the data on cloud desktops.
	Server to client	After this function is enabled, end users can only copy data on cloud desktops and paste the data on local desktops.
	Client to server	After this function is enabled, end users can only copy data on local desktops and paste the data on cloud desktops. NOTE: Files can be copied only from a Windows client to a server, and file redirection and the corresponding driver must be enabled.
Printer Redirection	-	Users can use printers connected to TCs.
Rendering Acceleration NOTE: This option only applies to video editing.	Visual quality first	The visual quality is excellent and the bandwidth usage is high (25 Mbit/s). The parameter details cannot be edited by default.
	Smoothness first	The visual quality and bandwidth usage are balanced (20 Mbit/s). The parameter details cannot be edited by default.
	Level 1 NOTE: The HDP Plus parameter can be customized for adaptation.	The bandwidth (kbit/s) ranges from 256 to 25,000. NOTE: This parameter specifies the limit of the display stream data. Increasing the value of this parameter improves user experience but consumes more network bandwidth. If the network bandwidth is insufficient, increasing the value of this parameter will compromise smoothness. In this case, you are advised to use the default value.
		Display Frame Rate (FPS): 1–60 NOTE: This parameter specifies the display frame rate when no video is played. Increasing the value improves display smoothness but consumes more bandwidth resources. If the network bandwidth is insufficient, increasing the value of this parameter will compromise smoothness. In this case, you are advised to use the default value.
		Video Frame Rate (FPS): 1–60 NOTE: This parameter specifies the frame rate of video display. Increasing the value improves display smoothness but consumes more bandwidth resources. If the network bandwidth is insufficient, increasing the value of this parameter will compromise smoothness. In this case, you are advised to use the default value.
		Lossy Compression Recognition Threshold: 0–255 NOTE: This parameter is used to adjust static image quality. A smaller value indicates higher quality but higher bandwidth usage and lower smoothness.
		Lossy Compression Quality: 20–100 NOTE: This parameter is used to adjust static natural image quality. A larger value indicates higher quality but higher bandwidth usage and lower smoothness.

Click Next: Select Target Object.
Select an object type as required and then select an object.
Click Next: Finish.

The policy has been created and will take effect upon the next login to the desktop.