Greetings

At work we run Windows Server 2008 R2 servers, with a bunch running published applications through RemoteApp and Desktop Connections. Great guns, especially once we figured out that we could drop them into our Windows 7 computers’ Start Menu and drop shortcuts on the desktop. Now it really feels like you’re running it on your computer! Neat.

The best part of it is being able to regulate who sees what through AD groups – allowing us to restrict access to apps that we have limited licenses for. So, naturally, every so often we get a request to provide access to an application secured like this, and we’re usually more than happy to provide access depending on licensing levels. So we add them to the group and get them to log off, then back on again… except the newly-provided app doesn’t appear! So we’d log in and manually refresh the feed by digging through the Control Panel… not fun, especially since the icons like to not appear all at once so we go to click it and end up clicking on Programs and Features instead.

So ho hi, ho hi, off Googling goes I. I find this post from a fellow by the name of “JayJay19671967″ who found the solution after finding questions of this nature nearly a year old with no response. It was one line:

rundll32 tsworkspace,TaskUpdateWorkspaces

That’s it. Takes all of 5 seconds. It’s in our login script, in the same section where it sets the connection up in the first place.