RemoteApp

You now understand RDS topology and the steps required to publish an RDS collection, upon which virtual sessions can land and users have access to an entire virtual desktop. This, however, is much more access than companies sometimes want to provide, and it can become overly complicated for some use cases. Perhaps you only want to provide access to one or two applications when users connect; they don’t need to have access to an entire desktop where they could potentially launch anything installed on the server, or to save files within their profile. Publishing RemoteApp programs through an RDS collection is a way to publish access to a single application or set of applications from within the Remote Desktop Web Access portal.

In fact, the perfect example of a use case for RemoteApps just came across my desk last week. A doctor’s office needed to allow their local hospital to have access to one of their on-premises healthcare systems. This doctor’...