What is Remote Desktop Services?

Why use Remote Desktop Services?

Integration of Remote Desktop Services with SharePoint Server 2010

Integration of these 2 technologies opens up great avenues for consolidation. The Remote Desktop Web Access server role can be taken over by the already present SharePoint Server 2010 in the environment. This provides the possibility such as:

• Single Website: As the SharePoint website is already present; this can be leveraged to publish the RemoteApps that are hosted on the Remote Desktop Session Host server. This reduces the URLs that the end user has to remember to access company data and applications.
• Customization: The SharePoint Website, unlike the Remote Desktop Web Access default web portal, can be customized as per company needs. This gives the company freedom to brand, color code, provide additional links or shortcuts as required.
• Accessing content through RemoteApps: If the content in SharePoint needs a particular RemoteApp to run, you can make a connection to the RemoteApp and then open the doc in it. This gives you the capability of accessing this data over the internet as well, without having to worry about security.

Logn on the Host server and go to Server Manager -> Roles -> Add Roles.

This will take you to the Add Roles Wizard. Please Select Remote Desktop Services .

Select then Remote Desktop Session Host and click Next

Just click Next

Select Require Network Level Authentication. Click Next.

Select the appropriate licensing scheme. Click Next. In my case "Configure Later"

Select the appropriate users you want to give access to the Remote Desktop Service Host server. Click Next.

In my case I added the administrators and the Domain Users

Select any of the features that you want to include in the Desktop Experience. Click Next.

For test, I will chose any of these.

Click install and reboot server.

Afther rebooting Server, again on Remote Desktop Services, add a new Service Role, Remote Desktop Web Access

click Next, note that my server name is srv-app-01

On the SharePoint Server ( srv-app-01 ) go to the webapplication that you want to use, and edit the Web.Config

Go to %SystemDrive%:\inetpub\wwwroot\VirtualDirectories\

In the <SafeControls> section, add the following line under the other SafeControl Assembly entries (as a single line):

<SafeControl Assembly="TSPortalWebPart, Version=6.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" Namespace="Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal" TypeName="*" Safe="True" AllowRemoteDesigner="True" />

Open an elevated command prompt. To do this, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as administrator:

Go then to your SharePoint site and in the upper-right corner, on the Site Actions tab, click Site Settings.

Under Galleries, click Web Parts.

Add ne New Element ..

Select the Webpart Microsoft.TerminalServices.Publishing.Portal.TSPortalWebPart and click then on Populate Gallery

Edit then your Page and add, the new WebPart TSPortalWebpart

Now, we are going to test it.

When I open my RemoteApp Manager, and connect to srv-sql-01, you can see that I have one Remote Application "calc.exe"

On your SharePoint Page modify it, to have a link to Calc.exe

When you click on it, it will open a warning screen.

Watch good, it tries to connect to SRV-SQL-01 and I am on SRV-APP-01

Provide your Credentials

And the calculator of SRV-SQL-01 opens now on the SharePoint Server ..

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