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We have RDS published app deployment in a development setting for about a year. I have historically not been involved in this deployment, and am only now bringing it under my purview.
I wanted to publish a new app. I installed the app on the host servers, published the app as a remoteapp program, and it showed up the RDS web interface. I successfully launched the app.
This app will be restricted to a certain subset of test users. To accomplish this, I created a new security group and added myself to it, edited the published app, and set the User Assignment to "only specified users and groups", adding this security group to it.
Upon saving the settings the icon disappeared from the RDS web page. The .RDP file I downloaded from before still works, but the icon on the page is gone.
I did try adding the security group to the properties of the collection itself (which I thought wasn't needed since my account is in Domain Users which is already there), but that didn't do the trick. I've also added my account explicitly in both locations, but still no joy.
What else should I be looking at? This is the first restricted app in this deployment so I don't have any other apps to compare my settings to. Thanks.
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Hello,
First, you could switch your browser or press F5 to force a refresh of your page (or use private mode).
If the icon is still not visible, try the following:
Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms{collection-name}\RemoteDesktops{collection-name}.
Then locate the ShowInPortal value and change it to 1.
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Same thing, unfortunately.
To be clear, I can get the icon to show back up if I set it so all users can see it; if I change it to just a specific group it goes away (but the other apps in the collection are still present).
I have an idea that I'm trying to pursue with the engineer who set it up in the first place--I noticed that in each of the collections we have a specific domain user is listed. The description of this user in AD is "used for auto-login to RDWeb."
Right now, we have the gateway URL protected behind an Azure enterprise app (for enforcement of MFA). If I add that user to the User Assignment then the icon shows up--but again, it shows up for everybody.
If I can't figure it out I may just lock the executable down on the app server, excluding anyone but my security group and domain admins from being able to launch it. :/
Ok, so I've figured out the issue, and it has to do with a workaround the previous engineer had come up with to resolve a SSO issue. I'm not going to tackle that (as this is a dev environment anyway, and I plan on deploying a new one before too long), so in the meantime I'm just going to restrict who can launch the app at the server level.
Having said that, when I added the new RD Session Host/app server to the mix and published the app, it also has an icon to RDP into the server itself (named after the name of the Collection I'd created for it). How do I disable that? There are three other Collections defined, none of which are showing on this page. Modifying the application settings in IIS under RDWeb -> Pages and setting the ShowDesktops to False wasn't the answer, and I don't see anything in the Site.xsl mentioning them, so there must be a configuration somewhere I'm missing.
UPDATE I figured that out. While the box to show the collection in RDWeb was not checked, it was also grayed out. I had to unpublish the app from the collection (switching the collecton's resources to Remote Desktop), then edit the collection properties to uncheck the box to show in RDWeb. Once that was done I republished my app and only the app showed up.