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Introducing Web Single Sign-On for RemoteApp and Desktop Connections

Wednesday, 12 August 2009 by Michel Roth

In Windows Server 2008 R2, the Web Single Sign-On (Web SSO) feature provides users with the ability to enter their credentials only once during logon to Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access). After logon, users can launch RemoteApp programs that are part of the same connection in RemoteApp and Desktop Connections without any further credential prompts, even if the RemoteApp programs are configured to use RD Gateway.

This post describes how to configure RD Session Host and RD Connection Broker servers to take advantage of the Web SSO feature when launching RemoteApp programs from RD Web Access.

In Windows Server 2008 TS Web Access, a major pain point for users was receiving multiple credential prompts, first when logging on to TS Web Access and then when launching a RemoteApp program from a terminal server.

In Windows Server 2008 R2, using the new RD Web Access Forms Based Authentication (FBA), users will now have to enter credentials only once in the login page of RD Web Access and will not be prompted again for entering credentials on launching subsequent apps from the RemoteApp Programs page of RD Web Access.

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/08/11/introducing-web-single-sign-on-for-remoteapp-and-desktop-connections.aspx

Comments (2)

written by Ross, September 07, 2009
Requires Windows 7 on the client side, unless by this time Microsoft have release the backward compatible RDC 7.1 pack for XPVista etc. Also DO NOT UPGRADE Server 2008 to Server 2008 R2, I did this and got a weird message when logging into RD Web Access relating to a user already being logged on - after rebuilding R2 from scratch all was fine.

written by Shahin Basheer, November 06, 2009
Really Great Stuff
A must Try
Great News is that RDP client is now avaialble for XP and Vista

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