Wednesday, March 14, 2012

RDS in WIN8 Feature highlight no. 5 E-mail subscription for Remote Apps

RDS in WIN8 Feature highlight no. 5  E-mail subscription for Remote Apps

Users are now able to subscribe to their Remote Apps using their email address. Users open up their RemoteApp and Desktop Connections, either from the Control Panel or QuickLaunch.

Quick launch:

Control panel:

When they do so the following screen will appear:

Here they can also specify their email address instead of the URL to RD Web Access, which makes it much easier for users to connect and integrate their desktop with RD Remote Apps.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Freek ,
    How to setup customers email in RDS to associate apps related to them. I am taking about Server Side Setup .

    Regards
    tShabbir

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  2. Hi tShabbir,

    To accomplish this you need to do a DNS configuration on the e-maildomain you would like to use. Instructions, see below. Note that if you use a public DNS, follow the instruction there to do the DNS change.

    Configure DNS Feed Lookup for RemoteApp and Desktop Connections.

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    To configure DNS feed lookup for RemoteApp and Desktop Connection

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    1.
    Log on to the domain controller as the CORP\Administrator user account.

    2.
    On the domain controller, open DNS Manager. Click Start, type DNS, and then click DNS.

    3.
    Right-click the forward lookup zone where you want to create the TXT record, and then click Other New Records.

    4.
    Click Text (TXT), and then click Create Record.

    5.
    In the Record name (use parent domain if left blank) box, type _msradc.

    6.
    In the Text box, type https://RDWA1.corp.contoso.com/RDWeb/Feed.

    7.
    Click OK.


    Source: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831442.aspx

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