Forum Discussion
Office, and potentially other apps, can launch other apps ... like a browser
Of course I know the myriad of things you've to know/do as I've been dealing with this since TS and before, and it is precisely because of that experience, that I'm looking for ways to "break things", I'm quite familiar with all those nuances.
But as this thing is in Preview, and this (the fact that the "system" ... ok the client ... by itself is uncapable of doing that level of restriction) is an old and annoyng thing, I think it's a good oportunity for the developers and program managers to deal with that at this stage.
I mean, think for a moment, the "marketing" that points to sell the promise of forgetting about all the RDS stuff (Gateway, Broker, Licensing, SQL Server, only to mention software) is certainly an attractive for us who have dealt with this over almost two decades: that definitely is a good thing.
It is also a good thing for "newbies", but arguably, a newby will feel this (what is stated in the subject) as a "lame failure" ... why in the heaven that happens? ... well, then it goes ... duh ... "it is still an RDS Session, so the user still has access to whatever is available in his session", but still the fact that the client renders the unwanted/unallowed app, "should" be something that this "as a service" solution should abstract the administrator from.
Having to continue dealing with this, with this new solution, is a miss.
And yes, there might be other thousand things to think about ... but my point is:
Newby says: Really?, you publish an RemoteApp and it is able to launch other apps that aren't published just because it invoked it?, Really?
Experienced says: Really?, still having to deal with this?
Don't get me wrong, I've learned to love RDS, it's fed me but, that doesn't prevent me from making some constructive criticism.
I agree.
If you have Office on your session hosts, Teams will also pop up every time you start any remoteapp, if you havent hacked the installer or made GPOs to prevent Teams from starting in the first place.
And yes, they are hacks, because it should have been much easier to set global settings for Teams in the installer (and not having to spend an hour reading about different approaches and hundreds of people scratching their heads).
Its like adware, just shows up whether you want it to or not. And when I start a completely different remoteapp, and Teams is not published, I dont expect Teams to start.
This disallows using the same session hosts for remote desktop and remoteapps, so we need to have more host pools and application groups so we can make these hacked versions behave like we want them to.
And I agree, for those of us who don't have much experience dealing with RDS or TS, we don't really expect having to read about all the dark corners of the old system, when dealing with what is presented as the new cloud based first class citizen solution.