Prevent RDApp from spawning other applications

Brian Hart 296 Reputation points
2021-03-22T23:55:44.087+00:00

Server 2019.

Is it possible to prevent a RemoteApp from spawning other applications? We have an application that, as part of its user interface, has a button that shows the Task Manager. A user clicked that, then used it to spawn Server Manager.

If I can configure the particular RemoteApp to disallow spawning any other processes, I will resolve the problem by configuring that. If not, I have to go back to the software vendor and point out their egregious security hole.

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  1. Brian Hart 296 Reputation points
    2021-04-15T18:33:09.57+00:00

    This all assumes that I am the programmer of the application and can embed the logic in the program or that I have a way to capture the application beforehand.

    Further research reveals that the activity I want is, indeed, required to be embedded in the application itself; it is up to the programmer of the application to provide a way to sense an existing instances of the application for the current user and prevent multiple instances; RDApp has no native capacity to block multiple instances. I was mis-informed when I assumed there was a way to do this.

    I have contacted then vendor, and buried within their setup, they do have a way for me to specify that a user can have only one instance. So we are implementing that.

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