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stevenzelenko
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Feb 08, 2020

Default apps in WVD

We are dealing with an issue with WVD Remote Apps where we cannot set or maintain default apps for users.  For instance, we want the default browser to be Chrome, mail to be OutLook, .doc files to op...
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lukemurraynz
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Aug 02, 2021
Something else to try - I use this for setting up my user associations (on a script I use for setting up Windows 10 associations, sets Mail etc, I would assume it would work in AVD, but haven't tested it) - https://kolbi.cz/blog/2017/10/25/setuserfta-userchoice-hash-defeated-set-file-type-associations-per-user/
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JPLewis
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Aug 02, 2021

Hi lukemurraynz 

 

Do you have an example script?

 

I think the issue I have is the target location is as below as it is not a local installed app.

"C:\Users\jonpaul\AppData\Local\Apps\Remote Desktop\msrdc.exe" "C:\Users\jonpaul\AppData\Local\rdclientwpf\1ed5d778-cf01-41d2-996d-ffe4d90b44d1\0c3203ce-050b-4fb0-a5b2-08d9520686ac.rdp" /u:jonpaul@mckeefehl.co.nz /l:2 /p:13188 /r:3  /n:"Adobe Acrobat DC"

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    lukemurraynz
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    Aug 02, 2021

    JPLewis 

    SetUserFTA.exe -Parameters "mailto Outlook.URL.mailto.15"

    SetUserFTA.exe -Parameters "http ChromeHTML" 
    SetUserFTA.exe -Parameters "https ChromeHTML" 
     
    ^ is what I used, the first one sets the mail app to Outlook.
     
    Try using to get the associations/apps:
    SetUserFTA.exe get
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      JPLewis
      Copper Contributor
      Aug 02, 2021

      Hi lukemurraynz 

       

      I think the issue when looking into this is all the local apps associate themselves with an "AppXxxxxx" ID for Regedit to identify what application needs to run for the file type.

       

      1) I am running Azure Virtual Desktop which runs locally on the machine via the installed app "Remote Desktop" however if you assign this as the default app as expected you will only be able to open the "Remote Desktop" however get an error of unable to open file with this application as it can't read the file (Obviously) which is why I am saying the file needs a couple of things to run.

       

      Target File =  "C:\Users\jonpaul\AppData\Local\Apps\Remote Desktop\msrdc.exe" "C:\Users\jonpaul\AppData\Local\rdclientwpf\4ec108f6-9882-4f6b-879b-6c38fda0c6e2\0c3203ce-050b-4fb0-a5b2-08d9520686ac.rdp" /u:jonpaul@mckeefehl.co.nz /l:2 /p:12872 /r:3 /n:"Adobe Acrobat DC"

       

      When you split the Target file up you get the below:

      "C:\Users\jonpaul\AppData\Local\Apps\Remote Desktop\msrdc.exe"

       

      This is "Remote Desktop"

      "C:\Users\jonpaul\AppData\Local\rdclientwpf\4ec108f6-9882-4f6b-879b-6c38fda0c6e2\0c3203ce-050b-4fb0-a5b2-08d9520686ac.rdp"

       

      This is "Adobe Pro DC"

      /u:jonpaul@mckeefehl.co.nz /l:2 /p:12872 /r:3 /n:"Adobe Acrobat DC"

       

      This is for Adobe Pro DC and Remote Desktop to authenticate you have access to read the Remote installed app.

       

      2) As I see it within SetUserFta you would either need a second field to read the authentication (/u:jonpaul@mckeefehl.co.nz /l:2 /p:12872 /r:3 /n:"Adobe Acrobat DC") to be able to get your machine to even think of running the "Remote Desktop Application"

       

      Please let me know if I am missing a vital part of assigning the "Remote Desktop App"

      Maybe I shouldn't be using the path of  C:\user\username\Appdata\..... feel free to look me up on LinkedIn Jon-Paul Lewis

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        lukemurraynz
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        Aug 03, 2021
        I can't think of anything specific off the top of my head.

        It may be that that kind of seamless interaction may not be possible, even if you could get the PDF to open with Remote Desktop, it won't pass through the file, you may have to use OneDrive on the session hosts to share the files between the two.

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