APM as an RDP Proxy but still get to RD Web Access page?
Hello,
I am currently trying to understand if deploying the F5 with Microsoft Remote Desktop Gateway servers will fit our needs. I am not sure if using the APM to proxy remote connections will work. I am looking to replace the RDS gateway roles on my servers with the F5 iapp but not sure if I can keep the RDS Web Access component. Using the F5 as an RDS Gateway would provide us HA --so this looks great, but I'd like to keep the ability to use the web access page that users can click the remoteApps that are published to a RDS collection. Does the F5 remove that ability when using the APM to proxy remote collections?
Thank you, Franz
In v13.0, APM can read items from a RemoteApp feed and SSO + proxy them to your APM users in an APM webtop. This would be quite difficult to implement on prior versions, so I’d recommend you wait for that release. v13.0 is going to be released within a few months.
This new version can publish RemoteApps (app virtualization) and also publish native RDP Resources (desktop virtualization) to IOS, Android, Mac, and Windows using the native Microsoft client. This requires installation of the Microsoft RD app.
You can also request access to the beta program here on DevCentral if you'd like to test it out in a non production environment.
Edit: the iOS part only works correctly in the case that you don't use RD Broker.