RDP RDWeb Oopsie

I encountered an odd behavior from a recent Gateway RDWeb. I have Remote App and Full Desktop published to RDWeb, but when I went to download the FullDesktop.rdp – it got the same settings as the remote app.

I’ve checked the registry entries and they are correct. Even copied the contents of RDPFileContents entry to notepad and saved as .rdp and it worked great – so its valid…

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms\MyCollection\Applications\MyAppName

and

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Terminal Server\CentralPublishedResources\PublishedFarms\MyCollection\RemoteDesktops\MyCollection

The contents have been changed to modify some settings and add the domain name in username section – but again, valid and works. Also changed the Name of each and it shows up in RDWeb properly.

I don’t know HOW RDWeb is pulling the wrong entry for the Desktop, since it SHOULD be pulling it from the Registry.

The ONLY thing I can think of is that my Collection Name and the Remote App name are the same… (above MyCollection and MyAppName are the same) but why would that be a problem?

Apparently, it is. My Collection is “MyAppName” and the published Remote App is “MyAppName” – and Windows Remote Desktop can’t decide which is which in RDWeb – despite the right settings in the registry.