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Hiding “Connect to a remote PC” tab from Remote Desktop Web Access based on Group Membership

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Arjan Mensch — 35 Comments

The other day one of this blog’s visitors, Ryan Davis, posted a comment regarding possibilities for using Active Directory security group membership for hiding or showing the different tabs in Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS Web Access. This post describes…

Tagged with: Customizing, RD Web Access, RDS, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2
Posted in Customize, Remote Desktop, Windows 2012 R2

Step by Step Redirecting and Managing the modern Start Menu in Windows 2012(R2) RDS

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Arjan Mensch — 47 Comments

I got several requests and questions about customizing and managing a redirected Start Menu when using a Full Desktop session collection. This post will cover the basics for doing that and is based on implementations we have done for real…

Tagged with: RDS, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2
Posted in Remote Desktop, Step-by-Step guide, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2

Redirect to the Remote Web Access pages (/RDWeb)

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Arjan Mensch — 27 Comments

If you have published Remote Desktop Web Access out of the box, and you visit http(s)://<url for remote desktop web access>, you’ll be presented with the IIS welcome page: To prevent this you need to redirect the root to /RDWeb.…

Tagged with: RD Web Access, RDS, Remote Desktop Services, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2
Posted in Remote Desktop, Windows 2012, Windows 2012 R2

Remove “Connect to a remote PC” tab from Remote Desktop Web Access

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Arjan Mensch — 9 Comments

UPDATE: See Paulo’s comment for an update / fix from Microsoft for this issue. My solution still works, but a Microsoft update is available. Recently we published a Remote Desktop connection for a customer using Windows 2012 Remote Desktop Web…

Tagged with: Customizing, RD Web Access, RDS, Windows 2012
Posted in Customize, Remote Desktop, Windows 2012