Publishing WordPad with RemoteApp
Most of the recipes in this chapter are focused on full desktop sessions provided by RDSH servers because this is the most common scenario that I find RDS being used for in the field. One additional piece I would like to take a quick look into is RemoteApp publishing. This is the ability to publish individual applications out to remote users from an RDSH server, rather than a full desktop session. It provides a seamless window for the application, allowing RemoteApp to look and feel like any other program on the user's computer. Let's set up a sample application and test using it from a client computer. For the sake of simplicity in demonstrating this capability, we will use WordPad as our application to publish and launch.
Getting ready
To publish WordPad as a RemoteApp, we will use Server Manager from any of our RDS machines or use a Windows 10 machine with RSAT installed. We will also use a client computer in order to test accessing...
