Microsoft Remote Desktop import RDP file

I don't see a way. There are only a few settings to enter manually though.

OK, I got with a mac guy, and we found a solution.

1.) Add remoteapp program on your Windows server. (using remoteprograms.msc)

2.) Right click the app and select "create.rdp File."

3.) Locate the .rdp file after creating it and email it to an email account that is in use on the iOS device.

4.) Install "Microsoft RDP Client" from appstore. (currently has an orange icon.)

5.) Open that email with the default email client that comes with iOS.

6.) Inside the email "long press" the .rdp attached icon, then select the "Open in RD Client" icon to the right.

7.) That's it.

I used this procedure and it worked great. A new entry under remote desktops in the RD Client app was created with the connection specifics. However, once the RD Client app was closed this entry disappears. Any fix for that?

Hey VictoryLakeland,

Did you add the complete URL for your RemoteApp server under Remote Resources?

Should look something like Https://<remoteapp servername>/RdWeb/Feed/Webfeed.aspx

BY adding this as a remote resource, it automatically populates all of the RemoteApps you have access to. Not sure I would ever use this on an iPhone (can't see someone entering a purchase order on a phone) but should work nicely for iPads.

Mine popped up in seconds and only asked me for my creds.

I have not set up RDS with RD Web Access yet. Was testing without that feature first because in my deployment it looked to be unnecessary. I can't understand why the entry created disappears as detailed previously.

I've been using the full blown RemoteApp servers for Application deployment for years and works extremely well. We actually stopped paying licensing to Citrix because of it. The RD Web Access functionis likely yourmissing piece that will tie everything together. RD Web Access allows you to create a .WCX file which helps provision your Windows 7, Windows 8 and now Apple clients for RemoteApps.

That samescripted WCX file can automatically populate many of the fields you need and the configuration on the client end comes down to knowing the correct Username and Password.

Well worth looking at!

Thanks for the info and I may have to test it as well. It seems a shame to have to maintain a webserver for it though, especially if the rdp file deployment method worked as it should for apple devices as well.

I think what Computer Chip offered is a work around to deploy the apps without having RD Web Access. The subject is substantially more complex than what he offers.

I think that the RD Client for Apple intentionally uses RD Web Access to deploy the Apps in the same way which Windows 7/8 deploys RemoteApps. For Windows, you just have the additional option of deploying the individual apps via MSI and Group Policy.

As for running a web server, its kind of part and parcel to the whole suite. Yes, you can buy a car with a manual transmission, no radioand no air... but why wouldn't you get all the luxuries installed... especially when it simplifies your life?

I run a single beefed up Remote App server which hosts RD Web Access, and RD Gateway, as well as all of the RemoteApps...and all of it virtualized. Think 8 cores with 64 Gb or Ram on SSD's.... lightning fast! The apps also work anywhere end users have internet access as everything is piped in via SSL (somewhat more secure than straight RDP!) Most of my users actually believe they are working with locally installed apps!

Anyways... I would encourage you to check it out! At most you are looking at using a public IP and buying an SSL cert (which are now cheap). The payback is much greater.

"but why wouldn't you get all the luxuries installed... especially when it simplifies your life?"

Because in my experience each luxury comes with its own maintenance cost and sometimes the benefit of the luxury is outweighed by that maintenance cost. That is why I am testing in phases. To see what I need and what I don't. Thanks for your input.

The solution I offered does not use RD Web Access, we use an F5 load balancer and it manages our traffic.

Once you open the rdp file from the email in the rd client app do the settings stick or do you just open it from the email every time?

Computer Chip wrote:

OK, I got with a mac guy, and we found a solution.

1.) Add remoteapp program on your Windows server. (using remoteprograms.msc)

2.) Right click the app and select "create.rdp File."

3.) Locate the .rdp file after creating it and email it to an email account that is in use on the iOS device.

4.) Install "Microsoft RDP Client" from appstore. (currently has an orange icon.)

5.) Open that email with the default email client that comes with iOS.

6.) Inside the email "long press" the .rdp attached icon, then select the "Open in RD Client" icon to the right.

7.) That's it.

Thanks! This also helped me out massively!

Guys - thanks for all of the help. Been running remoteapp for windows for a while and now just trying to get to remoteapp from iOS. I can remote into the server and see the desktop, but not get the remoteapp to run. When I email myself the RDP file, longpress and open in Microsoft Remote Desktop, I get

"Unsupported feature" Remote app launch is not supported in Windows Remote Desktop for iOS.

Windows 08R2 Server

iPad 8.1

same here.

can't even get remote resource to work under iOS 8.x

michaelsaitow wrote:

Guys - thanks for all of the help. Been running remoteapp for windows for a while and now just trying to get to remoteapp from iOS. I can remote into the server and see the desktop, but not get the remoteapp to run. When I email myself the RDP file, longpress and open in Microsoft Remote Desktop, I get

"Unsupported feature" Remote app launch is not supported in Windows Remote Desktop for iOS.

Windows 08R2 Server

iPad 8.1

Yeah I edited my original post a while back to include this, ill quote my quote. =)

"::UPDATE on 10/9/2014. Apparently the IOS update 8.0.2 broke this whole process."

Thank you so much Computer Chip,

You solved the problem and you made my life much easier. now I can log in and log out from my rdp any time I wish with my ipad! thank you!

victorylakeland,

I am having the same issue as you stated in this tread with the entry disapearing.

Did you ever find a resolution to this?

Thanks

It appears you have to open it from your email every time. I have also saved it as a Note and can open it that way but still have to send it to RD Client every time and it does not save my user settings.