Setting up and testing a new 2012 Remote Desktop/RemoteApp server.
We have Group Policy Preferences mapping drives (S for Shared, U for User). Also have logging turned on for GPP Drives.
Possibly relevant Group Policy settings:
- Computer/Policies/Administrative Templates/System/Logon/Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon: Enabled
- Computer/Policies/Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Remote Desktop Services/Remote Desktop Session Host/Connections/Restrict Remote Desktop Services users to a single Remote Desktop Services session: I've tried 'Not Configured' (2008+ should restrict to a single session by default right?) and 'Enabled' without change of behavior
Scenario 1: When I log in with a full Remote Desktop I get my mapped drives. If I leave this session either Active or Disconnected and open a published RemoteApp (WordPad for example) I get a 2nd session (viewed from the CONNECTIONS list from Server Manager) but no mapped drives (File/Open in WordPad does not show mapped drives.
Scenario 2: (From no Active/Disconnected sessions) - When I do the opposite - open up RemoteApp WordPad I get the mapped drives. If I leave this session Active or Disconnected and open a full Remote Desktop I get a 2nd session again and no mapped drives. The full Remote Desktop login window went by really fast here - I usually see "Applying Drive Maps...", etc... but I didn't see it here - either it didn't process it or it went by so fast I couldn't see.
GPP Mapped Drive logs are not updating on the 2nd session created (looks like GPP Mapped Drives are not getting called)
I run these tests on a 2008r2 RD/RemoteApp server and I get the mapped drives in the 2nd session in both scenarios above. GPP Mapped Drive logs still do not update on the 2nd session (so I assume this is by design).
I'm assuming it shares session settings for drive maps in 2008r2 but not in 2012 (? from what I can see how in 2008r2 the 2nd session does not update the GPP Mapped Drive logs).
How can I get GPP Mapped Drives to show up in Remote Desktop AND RemoteApps?
Thanks
-Andrew