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Azure AD Application Proxy now supports the Remote Desktop Services web client

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Alex_Simons
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Jul 29, 2020
Howdy folks!   Today we’re announcing the public preview of Azure AD Application Proxy (App Proxy) support for the Remote Desktop Services (RDS) web client. Many of you are already using App Prox...
Updated Jul 28, 2020
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Andrew_Allston
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Aug 31, 2020

I have one question that I cant seem to find a clear answer for. If you use AAP in Pre-Auth mode for this does it impact the functionality of the gateway and the Remote Desktop Store Apps? In testing I cant seem to attach to the web feed using the Store Apps (even though I can download the feed in a browser) nor can I use the Gateway as a normal Gateway. The only information that gives a clue is a blurb in the docs:

  • For the Azure AD pre-authentication flow, users can only connect to resources published to them in the RemoteApp and Desktops pane. Users can't connect to a desktop using the Connect to a remote PC pane.

But this sounds like its talking about the classic RDWeb site since it mentions the "Connect to a remote PC pane" which to my knowledge is not included in the webclient. Once enabled I can only seem to connect via the HTML5 Web Client, is this expected? If so, is pre-auth expected to be supported in the Store Apps at any point? Thanks!