RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management Extensibility for provisioning apps via RD Web Access
Monday, 16 November 2009 by Michel Roth
This blog post describes the third-party extensibility support available in the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management service, and how third parties (Enterprises or ISVs) can leverage it to publish any resources (RDP or non-RDP) in Windows Server 2008 R2.

The RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management service, which is part of the RD Connection Broker role service, is a new publishing feature in Windows Server 2008 R2. By default, the following three plug-ins are provided in the service:

  • LegacyTS plug-in: Aggregates RemoteApp programs from Remote Desktop Session Host servers.
  • VMFarm plug-in: Aggregates virtual desktop pools.
  • MyDesktop plug-in: Provides the user with the assigned personal domain desktop.

All three plug-ins provide only RDP files, in the following scenarios:

  • RDP files for RemoteApp programs
  • RDP files for virtual desktops in virtual desktop pools
  • RDP files for per-user assigned virtual desktops

In order to provide RDP or non-RDP files in any scenario other than the ones described above, you can write a plug-in to provide the list of resources, register it with the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management service, and display the resources in RD Web Access. For example, if you want to serve several different files (for example, some hand-crafted RDP files and some .osd (app-v) files that are on a physical drive on the machine running the RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Management service), you can write a simple plug-in that will aggregate the files from the location and pass them on to the service, which will then pass them on to RD Web Access. As a result, users will be able to access these files via the web page.

Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/rds/archive/2009/11/11/remoteapp-and-desktop-connection-management-extensibility-for-provisioning-apps-via-rd-web-access.aspx


Related Items:

RemoteApp and Desktop Connection Feed Extensibility (23 December 2009)
Introducing Remote Desktop Connection Manager (30 June 2009)
Introducing RemoteApp and Desktop Connections (11 June 2009)
2008 R2 Personal Virtual Desktops (23 November 2009)
Introducing Web Single Sign-On for RemoteApp and Desktop Connections (12 August 2009)
Updated Microsoft R2 VDI Guides (18 September 2009)
RemoteApp and Desktop Connection System Tray Icon (4 August 2009)
Windows Server 2008 R2: Remote Desktop Services Virtualization (RDS-V) (19 October 2009)
Introducing RemoteApp User Assignment (12 June 2009)
Windows 2008 Terminal Services RemoteApp user or group filtering (1 July 2009)
Comments (1)
written by desktop services, November 17, 2009
Thanks for giving information about the third-party extensibility support available in the desktop services
Because of this it can be used more conveniently.