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Main Menu Options

To open the Parallels HTML5 Client main menu, click or tap the "person" icon in the upper-right. You can select from the menu options described below.

Settings: Allows you to configure the following settings:

  • Sound. To play the sound on the local computer, select the Bring to this computer option. If sound is not supported by your browser, the menu will be disabled and you'll see a corresponding text message below it.
  • Remote audio recording. Enables or disable the sound input redirection from the local computer to the remote application. For example, if you would like to use a microphone in Skype or a similar app for teleconferencing, you need to enable audio recording in Parallels HTML5 client. Select Record from this computer to enable recording or select Do not record to disable it.

    Note: Audio input is supported in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari 11. If your browser doesn't support audio input, this setting will be disabled and you will see a text message instead.

  • Redirect Links. Select a desired redirection option from the following: Do no redirect, Redirect URLs, Redirect email, Redirect all. When redirection is enabled, a link will be opened on the local computer.
  • Redirect Printers. Select a printer redirection option: RAS Universal Printer (uses the RAS Universal Printing technology) or Do not redirect (printers will not be redirected).
  • Keyboard Mode. Select Universal Keyboard or PC Keyboard. If you have problems typing certain characters, try selecting PC Keyboard and then selecting a proper layout in the Keyboard Layout drop-down list (see below).
  • Keyboard Layout. Select a keyboard layout (e.g. English (US), English (UK), Japanese). To enable this drop-down list, the Keyboard Mode option must be set to PC Keyboard.

Change Password: Allows the user to remotely change their domain password. This option can be disabled through Client Policies (Control settings > Password > Prohibit changing password).

Download Client: Click this option to open a web page with instruction on how to download and install Parallels Client. You can also download Parallels Client by clicking the Parallels Client not installed link in the lower left corner of the web page.

Logout: Ends your session with Parallels RAS and logs you out.