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Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

By : Jordan Krause
Book Image

Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

By: Jordan Krause

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Publishing WordPad with RemoteApp


Most of the recipes in this chapter are focused around full desktop sessions provided by RDSH servers, because this is the most common scenario that I find RDS used for in the field. One additional piece of RDS, I would like to take a quick look into is RemoteApp publishing. This is the ability to publish individual applications out to the remote users from an RDSH server, rather than a full desktop session. It provides a seamless window for the application, allowing the 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

Our work to publish WordPad as a RemoteApp will be performed from our Server 2012 R2 RDSH called RDS-01. We will also use a client computer in order to test accessing this application once we are finished publishing...