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Ola Holtberget
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Oct 02, 2019

Configuring the subscription in Remote Desktop Client automatically

Hi there Is there currently any way of automating the subscription config in Remote Desktop, so that our users don't have to?   We want to silently install the client on the users device, automati...
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DavidBelanger
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Mar 25, 2020

JimCopeland63 Thanks for the feedback Jim. We've been looking at different ways to improve the initial subscription flow, at least for cases where the user's AAD token is already available for us to use (ex: AADJ or workplace joined devices).

 

One option is similar to RDS, where we'd add a policy/regkey like AutoSubscribeURL that when present would try to automatically subscribe the user using their existing AAD token. This workspace would not be removable by the user, contrary to manually added ones.

 

Thoughts on this?

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Ola Holtberget
Brass Contributor
Mar 25, 2020

DavidBelanger 
It sounds like that would solve our immediate problem for sure.
Together with the Remote Desktop client itself starting in the background, and SSO, the users startmenu would populate automatically with assigned applications from WVD, without the users even having to see the client!