Publish Remote Apps

[karldenton]

Hi

We are getting RDS installed and setup shortly. We would like to give all teachers "File Explorer" as a published app so they have access to network shares. What is the best way of getting it to them so it goes onto their start menu? Can they just access the RDWeb page and download the apps they need?

 

Thanks

[Steve21]

As long as they are still mapped as a shared drive (on the RDS server via GPO for said user), you can just publish explorer.exe T:\ etc and it'll open up as normal

 

Steve

[Liam]

Just publish explorer as stated and ensure your locked down etc and you have drives mapping. It's really easy. They shouldn't need to do anything other than log in

[ITGURU]

As above, just publish explorer.exe as an app then when they launch they'll see all network drives. If you install office onto the server, any files they open off the drives will use remote office and anything remotely on the network.

 

Alternatively, windows users can have all the apps listed as a group in their local machine start menu so they just go to start > remoteapp folder name > sims.net, explorer, etc and launch them as if on a school pc.

 

This saves time as do not need to keep authenticating via the website every time they want to use apps.