Zoom for VDI Application on VDI Virtual Machine (or Image).There are two components involved in deploying Zoom for VDI. Please review Zoom’s application comparison. When using Zoom for VDI, there are some limitations. And, just like Microsoft Teams Optimization, this is one less hop for data, one less processing point, and one less load off your server infrastructure. Using Zoom for VDI and the Zoom VDI Plugin, Zoom will offload (and a more optimized way than RTAV) video encoding and decoding from the VDI Virtual Machine and the endpoint will directly communicate with Zoom’s infrastructure. With minor tweaks (check out my post on enhancing RTAV webcam with VMware Horizon), this actually worked quite well with the exception of microphone quality on the end-users side, and high bandwidth requirements. This offloaded audio and video to the VMware Horizon Client utilizing a dedicated channel over the connection to optimize the data exchange. Just like with Microsoft Teams, before Zoom’s VDI client, VMware’s RTAV (Real-time Audio-Video) was used to handle multimedia. VMware Horizon client on Windows or compatible Thin Client.

Zoom VDI Registry Settings (Available here).Zoom Active Directory GPO ADMX Template (Available here).Zoom VDI Plugin Installer (Available here).Zoom for VDI MSI Installer (Available here).

To get started, you’ll need the following: Please make sure to read Zoom’s documentation on “ Getting started with VDI“, and Zoom’s “ VDI Client Features Comparison“, to understand the differences in the Zoom clients. While these instructions are targeted for VMware Horizon VDI environments, the process is very similar for Citrix XenDesktop. There is also a Zoom VDI Plugin for Citrix XenDesktop and WVD (Windows Virtual Desktop) in addition to VMware Horizon. In this post, I will guide you on how to deploy Zoom for VDI and the Zoom VDI Plugin in your VMware Horizon View VDI Infrastructure.

Looking at setting up Zoom for VDI in your Virtual Desktop Infrastructure?

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