Comments on: RemoteApp for Windows XP and Windows Vista, the missing pieces

By: wwwwa

wwwwa — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:30:33 +0000

It worked for me. I have my app with RemoteApp running on a Windows XP as a server, but.. there is a way to publish it in web?

By: App-V FAQ #18: Can I virtualise Internet Explorer with App-V?

App-V FAQ #18: Can I virtualise Internet Explorer with App-V? — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:01:55 +0000

[...] RemoteApp – Internet Explorer can be published from Windows XP or Windows Vista using RemoteApp. The older operating systems could be running in a local or remote virtual machine. [...]

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:40:27 +0000

You’ll be getting the full desktop instead of the RemoteApp window if you have not installed the hotfix (for Windows XP or Windows Vista) or if the settings inside the RDP file are not correct.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 06:59:31 +0000

Yeah, same thing… Using Win 7 as client and XP SP3 as host, I get the full desktop instead of the seamless window.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance

By: Dpunkt

Dpunkt — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:24:39 +0000

Hello,

thank you for this great Post – now i got the remoteapp windows with the desktop inside: I connect to an xpsp3 host, my client is windows 7 32bit
I don’t have credssp and don’t want to enter my Credentials every time.

But why do I get just the Full Desktop below the “REMOTE APP -Starting – Test” and not just a single window?

mfg

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:45:59 +0000

As mentioned in my last comment, the RemoteApp hosts features are only available in the Enterprise and Ultimate SKUs of Windows 7:

From here: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/12/15/remoteapp-for-hyper-v.aspx:

SKU support: RemoteApp for Hyper-V is supported on the following SKUs running as the guest OS:
- Windows XP SP3: Professional
- Windows Vista SP1 and above: Enterprise and Ultimate
- Windows 7: Enterprise and Ultimate

By: inter-rupteur

inter-rupteur — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:42:00 +0000

Hi all,

I’m on Seven 64 bits business and i don’t see the Terminal Server key in the registry… So i created using the registry values listed in the example in this post. But it is not working when i connect from a XP to my Seven ! It is working from my Seven to the XP ! I think that the values in the registry of the Seven 64, is not in the good place !!

Any Idea ?????
Thanks a lot

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Sun, 16 May 2010 08:53:56 +0000

If you read the original post from the RDS blog, it states that RemoteApp host is only available in the Enterprise and Ultimate SKUs of Windows 7 http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/12/15/remoteapp-for-hyper-v.aspx. So you won’t be able to get this working on Professional.

SKU support: RemoteApp for Hyper-V is supported on the following SKUs running as the guest OS:
- Windows XP SP3: Professional
- Windows Vista SP1 and above: Enterprise and Ultimate
- Windows 7: Enterprise and Ultimate

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:53:10 +0000

I don’t have the Terminal Server registry key in my Professional either. I look forward to the results of your test!

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Sat, 15 May 2010 22:47:33 +0000

Hi Sam, until myself or someone else can get around to testing this, I would recommend posting your question in the Remote Desktop forum at TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-gb/windowsserver2008r2rds/threads

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:57:28 +0000

Is there anyone else who have tried remoteapps on win7 pro 32 bit as host?

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:24:47 +0000

Hi Aaron
Have you have tried it on win 7 pro 32bit and were you able to make it work ?

Regards
sam

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:46:42 +0000

Hi Aaron,
Thanks for replying, I am only having win 7 profesional and premium editions , as remote desktop is availble in windows 7 pro and not in home premium so i guess remoteapps host(if it works) will work with win 7 pro and not home premium. So i am trying to figure out how to make it work on win 7 pro.

Also do let me know if there is any other windows feature required to be installed from Program and features or If there is a way to test if Terminal server is working or not.

I am eagerly waiting for your response and visit this page couple of times in a day to check for your response

Thanks alot

Regards

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Wed, 12 May 2010 09:20:37 +0000

I haven’t attempted with Professional, but I can give it a test later in the week and let you know what I find. Do you have another edition to test with?

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 12 May 2010 08:38:41 +0000

Hi,
Has anyone tried running remoteApp on windows 7 professional as host ?

Regards

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:41:20 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for replying , i have tried adding registry keys and then creating .rdp as mentione in post above but it is not working. When i execute .rdp from other PC and login details , rdp windows goes off and there is nothing.

Is there any way to check if Remoteapp host is working fine on win 7 pro ?

Normal Remote desktop works fine but not remote apps ?

Can you please help me out with this ?

Regards

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:50:36 +0000

Hi Sam, if you don’t see the Terminal Server key you can created using the registry values listed in the example in this post. Windows 7 Professional has Remote Desktop built in, so you should have no problems using it has a RemoteApp host.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:27:01 +0000

Hi,
I am having windows 7 professional 32bit and there is no entry in registry for Terminal Server .
I want to know can we host remoteapps on windows 7 professional or do we need windows 7 ultimate only to host remote apps or is it available to 64bit version only?

Thanks

By: Frank Xia

Frank Xia — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:12:27 +0000

Hi, thanks for the great post!
I setup a RemoteApp between two Win7s – it works great. However I don’t know how to “redirect” local file system to the remote application. That is, if I click File-Open menu in the remoteapp, can it bring up a dialog displaying my local file system instead of server’s? I remember I watched a demo by Citrix and it seems XenApp (or XenDesktop) has this kind of capability. (some users don’t want to save all data in server)

By: Aaron Parker

Aaron Parker — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:50 +0000

@Liam, absolutely, a hotfix without documentation doesn’t make much of a solution.

@Synapse Good point about the value of fDisabledAllowList. I’m unsure about getting this to work on Windows 2003 – setting the hotfix to compatibility mode probably won’t get the hotfix installed if file versions are incompatible.

By: Synapse Syndrome

Synapse Syndrome — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:19:37 +0000

I find that when fDisabledAllowList is set to 1, any program on the host can be run simply by editing the .rdp file, as the registry allow list is disabled. That is very insecure. When the allow list is disabled, remoteapplicationprogram in the .rdp file has to be the full path, without the double pipe to work. I think it is probably working for you because you have added remoteapplicationname to find the key, which I have not added.

Do you know if Windows Server 2003 can be made to run RemoteApps? Maybe if the XP hotfix is installed in XP Compatibility Mode?

I would like to add Win7 and XP/RemoteApps to RD Web Access, but I really do not understand the link you gave. Have you tried it?

Cheers.

By: Liam Westley

Liam Westley — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:28:57 +0000

Aaron, thanks for the elusive RDP settings that were causing my XP SP3 virtual machines to refuse RemoteApp connections. I’ve updated my blog post with those settings and will be refreshing the screen shots and testing in VMWare as well as VirtualBox in the next week or so.

It would have been nice if the patches had come with a brief blog post from the RDP team that detailed how this all worked, and what settings are required.

Many thanks,

Liam