RemoteApp and Desktop Connection

Windows Server 2008-based Terminal Services introduced a feature called RemoteApp, or Seamless Windows. This feature allows applications that are accessed through RDS to appear as if they are running locally on an end user’s machine. By using this feature, a user would run their remote application side by side other applications allowing them to minimize, maximize, and resize the application window as if it were a location application. In addition, if a user were to launch more than one RemoteApp, each RemoteApp would reuse the existing RDS session.

In Windows Server 2012 RDS, the RemoteApp feature has been expanded to include the ability to group and personalize RemoteApp programs, session-based desktops, and ...

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