Customizing OTURL Connection
In addition to the basic parameters needed to establish a connection, you can use additional settings to customize the connection according to your needs. There are three methods for customizing a one-time URL connection:
Using an Access Profile to set predefined configurations as a starting point for the connection.
Using an Access Profile and overriding some parameters by sending them on the query string.
Configuring each setting parameter on the query string manually.
Find below what parameters you should send in order to configure the connection with each one of these modes:
Mode 1: Using Access Profiles as Connection Templates
Use this mode to apply all settings from a predefined Access Profile.
model
On this parameter you should send the Profile Key, to have this profile taken as the Connection template.
string
Profile Key
Mode 2: Overriding Profile Settings
Begin with an Access Profile but override certain settings directly in the query string to fine-tune the connection.
overrideDefaults
Set this property to true, to have the access profile settings overridden by the parameters sent on the queryString. Then configure the individual settings you want to add to the access profile connection template. If you send this parameter as false, only the access profile configuration will be taken.
bool
false
Mode 3: Configuring Each Setting Individually
If you skip the model parameter (or override its settings), you can configure each Thinfinity® Workspace setting manually. Here are the steps to customize settings individually:
Username and Password considerations
Providing a username and password in the URL enables the Use these credentials option.
Omitting the username or password will prompt Thinfinity Workspace to follow the Ask for new credentials setting.
The Use authenticated credentials option does not apply to One-Time URLs, as there is no prior authentication with a valid user on the remote machine.
Find below the list of the parameters you can configure manually:
computer
The remote desktop IP and port to connect to.
If you are using "None" or "Username/Password" as authentication mode or the [any computer] as profile you will have to specify the computer parameter.
string
IP:Port
The username to authenticate against the remote machine. If this parameter is not sent, Thinfinity Workspace will prompt the user for this information.
string
username
The password to authenticate against the remote machine. If this parameter is not sent, Thinfinity Workspace will prompt the user for this information.
string
password
startprg
If you will use the OneTimeURL to start a specific application, you should change this and the following three fields. Set it to 0 for the Do nothing option; 1 for the Start a program option; 2 for the Launch RemoteApp option.
integer
0,1 or 2
0
command
Full remote application path that should start upon connection establishment.
string
app path
directory
Initial context directory to be used by the application set on command parameter described above.
string
dir path
cmdargs
Arguments to start the application specified on the command property.
string
app args
bpp
Color Depth: sets the number of bits per pixel. Set 8 for 256 colors; 15 for True Color (15 bit); 16 for True Color (16 bit); 24 for True Color (24 bit).
integer
8,15,16 or 24
16
resolution
"fittobrowser", "fittoscreen", "fixed". When "fixed", the width and height parameters will be considered.
string
toolbar size
"fittobrowser"
width
Remote desktop screen width.
It will only be considered when the resolution parameter is set to "fixed".
integer
pixels
Desktop width
height
Remote desktop screen height.
It will only be considered when the resolution parameter is set to "fixed"
integer
pixels
Desktop height
imagequality
Specifies the image quality/compression. Set 0 for "Highest"; 1 for "Optimal"; 2 for "Good"; 3 for "Faster".
integer
0,1,2 or 3
1
desktopbackground
Set to true to show the original remote desktop background.
boolean
true,false
false
visualstyles
Set to true to change the start menu and other windows features style.
boolean
true,false
false
menuwindowanimation
Set to true to show an animation on the Start menu.
boolean
true,false
false
fontsmoothing
Set to true to make text easier to read, especially magnified text.
boolean
true,false
false
showwindowcontent
Set to true to show windows contents while dragging them.
boolean
true,false
false
desktopcomposition
Set to true to configure the DWM to redirect the desktop drawing to off-screen surfaces in video memory. The desktop will also present many visual effects.
boolean
true,false
false
unicodekeyboard
Allows the use of full Unicode keyboard charsets. Set to false to connect to xRDP servers.
boolean
true,false
true
keyboardlayout
Allows to specify the keyboard layout when Unicode keyboard is disabled.
string
Keyboard identifier (hexadecimal)
"00000409 (US)
console
Forces the connection to connect to the remote console session.
boolean
true,false
false
wscompression
Set to true to enable the compression for the exchanged WebSocket data and have the application performance improved.
boolean
true,false
true
disablenla
Set the option disableNLA if you use a CredSSP other than Microsoft.
boolean
true,false
false
desttype
Set the desttype to "VMID" in case you want to establish a connection to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine or set "RDS" if you want to create a connection to an RDS Collection VM.
The connection will act as a regular connection in case you don't inform this property of inform any value different from "VMID" and "RDS".
string
VMID or RDS
destinfo
string
Virtual Machine ID
or
TSV URL
diskenabled
Set to true to have an intermediate disk available on the connection.
boolean
true,false
true
diskname
Identify the intermediate disk among the other remote desktop disks.
string
name
"ThinDisk"
diskautodownload
Set to true to automatically download any file saved/copied in the Intermediate disk.
boolean
true,false
true
Adding Parameters to the Query String
Concatenate each parameter with the format ¶meter=value, as shown below:
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