My company recently decided to set up our main product as a RemoteApp on a Windows 2008 R2 server. They created desktop icons using the RemoteApp Manager. I was tasked with testing the companies ability to deploy the apps using the provided icons. From
my Windows 7 computer at work, as soon as I attempt to open the app using the provided .rdp file, I get an error message stating 'Your computer can't connect to the remote computer because an error has occurred on the remote computer you want to connect to'.
If I click on OK, I am returned to the desktop. I let the 'powers that be' know what I have run into and the upshot that they gave me is that I installed something on my work computer that will not allow the computer to connect using the .rdp file. I have
installed nothing on my computer that would wreak havoc with the .rdp that I'm aware of. I keep my computer clear of non-approved software, so I cannot understand what may be happening here. I can remote into the server housing the remote app and launch the
application using the exact icon I am attempting to use on my desktop. I can also create an .rdp file directly using the mstsc.exe logon app and can start the application. I brought the icon's home and put them on my Windows 8 desktop and attempted to run
them from that location as well, but again met with the same error. I have tried using a secondary account on the remote app server, but still not able to connect. Anybody have an idea which direction I can turn. The boss that created the .rdp icons threw
his hands up and refuses to look at it any longer.
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